Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-06
Special to the Register.

ginia University was fairly opened last
evening with the brilliant reception
given by DR.. and Mrs. ]. l.. Good
knight in, honor of the senior classes,
academic and law, and to which all the
professors and their wives and the
students were invited. Only the seniors
had the privilege and honor OF inviting
ladies to accompany them TO the re-
ception. The two hundred other stu
denis who poured into the presidents
large and elegant home had to be
content in adorning the walls and
looking forward to the time when they,
too, would be the envy of the under
graduates and recipients o. the sweet
smiles of Morgantown's fair women.
Visitors are now pouring into town
and the hotels have already engaged
the larger part of their rooms for next
week, but there will be room in "Aih-
ens'' for all who desire to be here dur
ing the gala season.
Saturday night the mock court will
try the celebrated breach of promise
case of Marguerite Custis Washington
VS.. Richard Henry Lee. This will af-
ford an opportunity for the graduates
of the law department to show off their
budding legal talents, and the best ma
terial in the school has been retained
by the litigants. The evidence will be
of an interesting nature, and the court
room will be crowded with ladies and
gentlemen.
The defense, it is claimed, has Sc
cured witnesses from the freshman
class who are capable and willing to
swear to anything, even to saying that
Benedict Arnold and not the immortal
George Washington was the father Of
his country.
At least 1,2OO people will hear the
baccalaureate sermon to be preached
Sunday morning by DR.. j. S. Ramsey,
of New York City.
&Iessrs. Harvey Smith and Geo. NJ.
| Ford vii edit the University Daily, the
| first number OF which will appear on
Monday and be issued during the week.
Several hundred invitations have
been issued by DR.. and Mrs. John A.
Myers for a reception to be given Tues
day night from 10 II o'clock, in honor
Of Gov. w. A. MacCorkle.
DR.. and Mrs. Myers are famous for
their elaborate entertainments, and this
one will exceed in elegance any ever
given by them.
Among the distinguished visitors ex-
pected here during the week are Hon.
S. B. Ell1ins, Hon. A. G. Dayton and
ex-Gov. \. B. Fleming.
An item is going the rounds of the
press to the effct that Prof. Thos. A.
Miller. Principal of the Preparatory
Department. and Professor OF Pedagogy,
will he a candidate for the Republican
nomination for State Superintendent of
Free Schools. When seen by the Reg
lister correspondent, Prof. Miller said
that he was not seeking the office, did
not want il. and the assertion that he
would be candidate was made without
authority from him. He will spend the
summer lecturing before schools for
teachers in New York State and Mas
sachusetts.
The Board of Regents will hold their
meeting on Monday and for the first time
in many years there has been nothing
said about ousting professors. There
is now no fight in the University and
the President and members OF the fac
ulty are working in perfect harmony;
consequently the University has pros
pered. and there are now over 800 stu
dents enrolled.
The Regents will appoint some three
or four professors to chairs in the new
Agricultural College, but it is not at all
likely that any change whatever Will
be made in the present makeup OF thu
faculty. President Goodnight has
done what no other President ever sue
! ceeded in doing. He has worked IN
harmony with the professors and is
consequently respected by every in
structor in the institution. The fight
against the President some time ago
by few students who did not wish to
attend chapel, gave rise 10 the report
that an effort would be made to have
change in the Presidents chair. 1t was
only the wall of few hot-headed boys.
The base ball club returned from
Pennsylvania, where it won laureis and
the hearts of the base ball fans" and
left last night for Parkersburg, where 1t
plaved to-day. This will be the last
game of the season.
Morgantown is right in the deep wa
ter of the pool of excitement. and is
swimming hand over hand. On Satur-
day the Republican primary election
will be held. and owing TO combine
among the candidates for the Office OF
Sheriff. the campaign during the past
Gov, dove has hecome red hot in fact
it is hotter by large majority than
ever before known in the g. o. p. OF this
county.
On the same day the Democrats Will
hold conventions in all the districts to
nominate delegates to the convention at
Davis. A big crowd is expected at tha
convention in Morgantown and lively
time is anticipated.
County Court is now in session, and
the Circuit Court convened Tuesdey.
Taken altogether, the next few days
promise to be the liveliest in the his
tory of Athens"
More visitors are expected than ever
before on a similar occasion, and the
Commencement ball will be grand So
cial success.
AS vet no brass band has been en-
Moved an oversight that caused much
comment last year. AS Morgantown
has one of the finest bands in the State
II will probably be secured. Guenther,
of Pittsburg, will furnish the string
music.
c. B. Hart is the only Regent here.