Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-09-23
THE UNIVERSITY.

EDITOR REeIsTER-On the morning OF
the eighth day of September the doors OF
the West Virginia University were again
| thrown open to over three hundred stu
dents. The newly-elected president, DR..
Jerome Fl. Raymond, Is a man of great
business ability, and under his manage
ment the student body commenced ma
circulating in most orderly manner.
The method of matriculation has been
changed, and under the new system
much more time is required to each stu
dent. On account of this, the great
crowd of students did not finish matric-
ulating for several days. There were no
special exercises Of installation, they
being deferred until October, at which
time President Harper, of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, is expected TO officiate.
A meeting of the faculty and students
was held in commencement hall at nine
o'clock Wednesday morning, when Pres
ident Raymond delivered strictly bus
mess address, explaining the several new
departments of the University. The
regular chapel exercises commenced
Monday. The executive committee Of
the Board of Regents was in session the
first of the week. They elected the fol-
lowing new instructors for the recently
created departments of the University /:
P. H. Sanders, Pm. D., of Chicago, TO fill
the vacancy left by Prof. Cutright'S res
ignation; Dr. Sanders will also be as
sistant professor of pedagogy. |. w.
White, A. B., OF Chicago, instructor in
oratory and rhetoric. Miss Eva Hub
bard, Of Wheeling, to the chair Of Fine
Arts.
A department of music has also been
added to the University. In few days
the name of the instructor in this de-
partment will be announced. At pres
ent the committee authorized TO make
this appointment is in correspondence
with the best musical professors in the
country, in relation to this chair. These
chairs make total of five new depart
ments added to the University within
the past year, They are Oratory and
Rhetoric, Fine Arts, Music, History and
Sociology Besides these, there is to be
Inaugurated a system of instruction by
mail. by means Of which students not
able to attend the University may re-
ceive instruction. This is branch Of
University Extension, a department Of
University work in which DIR. Raymond
has been engaged in Chicago and else
where. A pamphlet will be issued in n
few days explaining this department of
the University.
From this rapid advanceme mt, it can
be readily seen that the University Of
West Virginia will soon rank with the
best universities of the United States.
Besides the new chairs created, some
departments have been divided, to others
there have been elected assistants, so
that now the University has corps OF
nearly forty efficient instructors. Ath-
1etics, branch necessary to all first
class colleges, under the dictatorship of
Prof. Hodges, are assuming greater
prominence than ever before. Upto the
present time three hundred and fifty
students have been matriculated. On
every train new students are arriving,
and old students returning. 1t can be
said, and with much pride, that what
will be the most prosperous year in the
history of the West Virginia University
has commenced. She has most COM
petent faculty, devoid of internal or ex-
ternal friction. Three hundred and
fifty students, who are proud Of their
young president. With abundant APP
preparations, and the State of West Nir-
ginia supporting her, she removes the
necessity of West Virginian leaving
his home for an education. 1t is the
duty of all West Virginians who wish
a higher education to attend their own
University 1t is the duty of every cit
izen of West Virginia to give her their
active cooperation, and the reward shall
be that near our own homes there shall
arise a University most capable to give
the sons of West Virginia the fruits,
the results, and advantages Of science,
research and the highest education.
T.