Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1897-11-30

AT Une close OF tine rail- quarter at
the West Virginia University, there
are more students in attendance than
were enrolled during the whole of last
year.
A Students Dramatic Club has been
organized at the West Virginia Uni
versity with Prof. James p Whyte,
professor of elocution and public
speaking, as director. The object of
the club is to study Shakespearean and
other plays and to give one or more
performances each year.
The West Virginia University
School Of Music is intended to be self
sustaining, and the indications are that
it will pay all expenses, even the first
year. The large number of music
students proves that West Virginia
was ready for a first class school of
music, and the fees for instruction
will pay for the equipment and main
tenance of the school. Its founding
was made possible by three or four
| liberal gentlemen who guaranteed
certain sums of money. When the
College of Law was started some years
ago DR.. Brooke leetured a whole year
to just one student; now it is one of
the strongest departments Of the Uni
yersity. The School of Music starts
off with as many students as the law
college.had after several years CT exis-
tence.
DIR. p. B. Reynolds has just finished
a notable course OF lectures under the
auspices of the Y M. G. A. of the
West Virginia University on 1.-The
Influence of Religion on Human At
fairs. These lectures have attracted
wide attention. Other courses before
the Y M. G. A. will be delivered by
different professors during the year.
Hereafter, in the Law College of the
West Virginia University, each branch
of law will be completed in one quar-
ter and an examination on that sub
ject will be held at the end of the
quarter, so that il a student enter at
any quarter he will find beginning
courses in various branches of the law
which he may take up and complete
in that quarter.
The new physical laboratory in Sci
ence Hall at the West Virginia Uni
versity has been fitted up with sup
ply Of the best and most modern APP
paratus and is one of the busiest OF
the many busy places about the Uni
versity Professor Hodges is getting
ready to give some courses in practical
electricity during the summer quarter
The athletic season of the West
Virginia University closed with the
Latrobe, Pa, game on Thanksgiving,
with great credit to the w. V. u.
team. 1t was defeated only twice by
college teams and at least one of them
was not exclusively an amateur team.
dedicated Washington and Lee Univ
ersity, Marietta College, Westminis-
ter College and the Ohio State Univ
ersity, and tied Pittsburg College.
1t lost to Washington and Jefferson
college and protested the game with
Ohio University at Athens. But even
better than this, they made record
everywhere for gentlemanly conduct
and reflected credit on the University.
This years series of popular lectures
at the West Virginia University in
rludaS lacturac nv Puscau ri Cornwall
Jahu Dewitt Miller, Byron w. King,
Eli Perkins, DIR. John Riley Thomson,
and Waitman Barbe.
President Raymond of the West
Virginia University, will be one Of
the judges at the annual contest of
the Ohio Inter-C Collegiate Oratorical
Association at Athens, o., February
IT.
The increase in students in West
Virginia University is entirely in the
upper classes, the number in the Pre-
paratory School being about thirty
less than last year. The upper class
es are all larger.
The West Virginia University de-
sires to cooperate with the State Nor
NAL Schools and other institutions in
helping the public school teachers.
Special courses in Pedagogy will be
offered, therefore, for the summer
quarter, which will begin July 1.
This feature will be emphasized for
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