The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-06
SCHOOL MELANGE.


The inaugural number of the Athe-
haeum' published at the West Virginia
University, contains all the addresses
uellVered during that ausplclous occa-
sion ana II Is surely worth the reading,
Inc addresses Of Presidents Andrews
and Harper are exhaustive and are full
OF FOOD for thought, while the inaugu-
raj address OF President Raymond put
lines a policy that will surely, when
carried out, place our university right
alongside Of the very best universities
In the land. And why should It not be
soY West Virginia boys and girls have
Just as good brains as the boys and
girls of any other state in the Union,
and they have the physical power to
give these brains a proper development,
and why not, then, should they not be-
come, right in our university, Just as
learned and cultured as in any other
institution. They can so become, and
In the very near future our university
Is bound TO take a leading place among
the great schools of the land. But
while this Is true, 1t ought to be remem-
bered that In our primary schools Is the
place In which TO make u university
what 1t ought to be. II Is the mead
of Il school system only in the sense
that 1t Is here where the browning work
Is done, while II Is the primary school,
or rather the good work done there,
that makes the success Of the uniVer-
sity possible. The teachers In every I'M
graded school In the state ought TO
have the power to create in the minds
of the boys and girls under their charge
q thirst for a higher education, an am
billion to be something in the world, and
when this ID done our university halls
will be kept crowded with q class OF
young ladies and gentlemen OF which 1t
need not be ashamed,
We notice that there is a disposition
to do away with the primary depart
ment OF the university, This lust now
would be n blow struck against it. The
writer fails to see, as some 10 do, how u
preparatory department lowers the dig
nifty and the standing OF a university.
Pupils are surely prepared here right
under the eyes of the entire faculty,
better than they could be anywhere
else, There might be no necessity for
It II we had enough intermediate
schools, but until that time comes the
preparatory department is surely neces-
sary and 1t ought to be kept up
The high school under the s%upervls-
ion of Principal Work gave Its first lit
erary performance yesterday afternoon.
1t was given by the members OF the ad-
vanced class. The programme was as
follows:
Essays
Wheeling; What 1t Was and What
Mothers and Home; 'hStella Masu'Fe
Mary Richardson
cycles Of Time Loretta Morgan
Recltations-
Ills Mothers Songs" Our Folks.
....,.,u""- ".."....Agilla Comerford
Blowing Bubbles" Meta Holiday
Our Folks ..,....".."...Grac Reich
Original Oratlons-
Effect Of Intemperance" Sue Jones
"rhe Power of Habit, Edith Noise
Are Americans CourageousT'
us y'''Lambsrt I BoySd
"Why l Go to School.
THE Klondike" 49,, Addle Evans
"Reiations Between spain and the
Woods and Fields in Autumn"
...ss... 4s. tkAlt i plllk
Debate-Resolycd, That the Study OF His,
tory and Literature Give a Better Edu-
cation than the Study of Mathematics
and Science,
D~eny-Belle Tracy and Bessie McGrana-
han.
The performance throughout vas
very good.
Or. Jepson has presented to the high
school copies of Buffers School Eng
fish. MONEYS Latin Grammar, Irish's
photography and Orthoepy. Brooks
New Mental Arithmetic, Brooks Nor
nal Rudimehts OF Arithmetic, Brooks
Plain Geometry. Brooks Geometry and
! Tr!gonometry, Brooks Normal Stand
ard Arithmetic, Mines High School
Algebra, Whites Elements Of Geom-
etry, for which he has the thanks OF all.
The Longfellow Literary Society OF
Richie school still lives, though the
high school took so many of its mem
bers. 1t is now composed OF the
| seventh and eighth year pupils. It Is
divided into four classes and each per-
forms once every four weeks. Zach
class seems to vie with the others In
trying to give the best performance,
and the result is that every Friday af-
ternoon they give a performance worth
hearing. Quite a number Of visitors
attend at nearly every meeting. To-
much attention cannot be given to these
literary exercises, as they are doing
| the pupils more good than Is any other
one exercise OF the school. But they
are not doing as much good as they
might do from the fact that the pupils
do not prepare themselves as well as
they might. The greatest good OF these
exercises Is to teach the pupils how to
express what they know in good Ian
guage and with iuency. Parents ought
to cooperate with the teacher in inn
pressing upon their chllren the great
good of such exercises. because it IL
hard to convince the average boy that
Saying a speech" In school ran have
any direct or even indirect influence or
his after life. Parents and teachers
must both remember that a boy Is n
hoy and not a man. and allowance must
be made for his shortcomings. But al
though he is Il boy, there Is always n
way to reach his heart, and II must he
reached II he Is to become the man that
ne ought to be.
As an addendum to the above 1t Is
well that we as teachers ought to re-
member that we we're boys and girls
once, the most Of us girls. and try to
remember just how we felt and did
when tried and tempted In our school
life. II this was done always. how
many n poor boy and girl would escape
the punishment they now so often re-
ccive. THE FEDAGOGUE."