The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-08-28
THE STATE PRESS
Comments on the University.
The Selections OF the Regents General
Nv Commended,

The new President of the West
Virginia University, J. II. Raymond,
Phi. D., was elected by the unani-
nous vote Of the board of regents.
This fact portends well for the insti-
tuition West Union Herald.
DR.. Raymond, though young
man, scarcely thirty, is remarkably
brilliant educator, and his scholastic
career is notably creditable. He has
rare executive ability and is highly
endorsed by the faculties of Prince
ton, Yale and Harvard Universities
and the University of Chicago. In
a private letter to the Intelligencer,
Richard Randolph Mcmahon, OF the
board of regents, says: ''Dr. Ray
mond, the new president, is an ideal
man-young, ardent, ambitious; of
refined and gentle manner; quick as
a fash; keen as a, hawk, and withal,
very magnetic and of pleasing per
sonality."
DIR. Raymond will arrive in Nor
gantown within day or two to take
charge of the university. He has
already made fine impression
among all with whom he came in
contact during the meeting of the
regents at the time of his election.
He is a Republican in politics and
in religion Baptist, but his adher-
ence to those faiths did not in any
manner influence his selection, be
cause neither his politics nor religion
was inquired into, and only one or
two of the regents knew about them.
Dr. Raymond is married and Mrs.
Raymond is said to be as clever as
her already distinguished young
husband. When they were students
together at the Northwestern Uni
versity she competed with him for
gold medal in an oratorical contest
and won it. Chagrined at his defeat,
DIR. Raymond says he entered into
competition of another kind with
her few years later and carried off
both the young woman and the med
al Wheeling Intelligencer.
The fact that the new president
of the University at Morgantown is
the youngest college president in
the United States, gives rise to the
thought that this state is rapidly
becoming a state of young men. In
every profession in the state young
men are rapidly forging to the front,
and are taking prominent positions
of trust in every avenue of CONNER
cial activity as well. Accompanying
this is the rapid growth and devel-
opment of the state. The bone and
sinew and muscle of young man
hood, accompanied with the nerve
and push and energy and ability of
those who are taking hold of affairs
in this state, tell us in language
stronger than words that West Vir-
ginia is about to enter upon an era
of prosperity and progress to which
the past will be as nothing. Watch
the next twenty-five years of this
states history and read therein the
correctness OF this prophecy.-.Sis-
tersviHe Oil Review.
The new head of the West Virgin
ia University..began life at the age
of nine years, by selling newspapers
on the streets of Chicago to support
his widowed mother He didn't
spend his hours playing ball or loaf
ing on street corners. He worked
his way up, attaining the highest
education afforded by the colleges
of America and Europe, and is now
the youngest college president in the
country. There is always a way up
for him who chooses to find it.-Ne'os
Standard, { Pa
Prof John A. Myers, the retiring
director Of the United States Exper-
iment Station at the West Virginia
University, leaves behind him a rec
ord that easily places his name
among the leading scientific men of
the nation.
The regents of the State Universe
ty have rendered the presidency of
the institution to DR.. Jerome H.
Raymond, of Wisconsin. DR.. Ray
mond will accept the place and will
be the youngest man that has ever
held this high position in West Vir
ginia. The indications are that a
wise selection has been made. Prof.
Harvey was also reelected to the
chair of Modern Languages.-Clarks-
burg Telegram.
The regents of the State Universe
ty are to be congratulated upon the
selection of DR.. j. HI. Raymond as
president of that institution 1t is
also matter of congratulation that
suggestions" from those high in
State affairs failed of their purpose
and that layman of broad and lib
eral views has been selected as the
head of the leading educational
institution of the State. If the re-
gents continue their labors on this
line and refuse to be influenced by
UNCONVENTIONAL ideas the State Uni
versity will become, what it should
be, asource of pride to the State and
one of the best institutions of learn
ing in the country.-Mannington
Advocdte.
The future of the West Virginia
University looks brighter than it
has for many years. The selection
of Jerome H. Raymond, A. b., A. M,
Phi. D. for president of the institu-
ton means much. His mental quail
ifications are not the least to be con-
sidered. DR.. Raymond is young
man, and being such he will be in
touch with the students, in sympa-
thy with their youthful ambitions,
and this is sure to accomplish the
very thing that has heretofore been
failure. There must he common
bond of union between students and
president, and not conflict and
strife. The Ohio Wesleyan Univer-
sity a few years ago selected DIR.
Bas'lford, young man, to succeed
Dr. PAYNE as president, and the
change has caused the institution to
attain the greatest success it ever
enjoycd. The theory that old men
only can train and manage the
youthful has been exploded long
ago, and young men are filling the
most important positions of nation
and state and are finding their way
to the foremost positions in all edu-
cational institutions. Success to
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