Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-10-03
THE UNIVERSITY.
Great Crowds of Students Be
seiging the Presidents
Door.

Expected to get ON the Roll to-day
The Thousand Mark is Expected by
Some to be Reached Before the Year
is out-Notes on the Various Depart.
ment-Ge0rge G. Baker offers prize
in the Drawing Department-New
Physical Instruct0r-Other Notes.
The work of matriculation at the
University is going on as fast as the
nature of the operation will permit.
Saturday on the first day there were
enrolled three hundred eighty five.
This is much greater than for any
other first day the University has
ever had and was only kept at this
figure by the fact that it was i'm
possible to get more of the appli-
cants fixed.
Monday the rush continued and
the long line of would be students
filed into the Presidents office in
a steady stream. The President as
sisted by Mr.. Barbe got them ar
ranged for as rapidly as possible
and untangled the many knotty
problems that were brought to him
for solution.
The town is full of the students,
the majority of them beng new men.
The old students have not come in
yet but large delegation of them
are expected on the afternoon train
of Monday. The indications are that
to day Monday there will be more
than five hundred names placed on
the roll.
This enrolment is larger than ever
before so soon after the opening of
school and with the influx Of the
old men which will soon begin the
attendance will as expected again
break the record. Taking the sum
mer quarter into consideration with
it's hundred and thirty students the
list will run over eight hundred and
some of the more sanguine of the
authorities at the College are pre-
dieting that there will be nearly if
not quite thousand enrolled before
the end of the year.
The first chapel was held on Mon
day morning. For the first time the
matter of attendance was optional.
The board of regents at their last
meeting abolished the compulsory
part of the chapel service and twill
no doubt prove more popular than
it has in TIE past. A great deal of
the friction that has existed be-
tween the authorities and the stu
dents has grown out of the compul-
sorry chapel attendance and this will
all be obviated this year. The at
tendance will be as large as ever.
The students in drawing will be
given instruction this year free of
charge. Mrs. Hubbard is in charge
Of this department and she proved
conclusively by her work last year
that she is the right woman in the
right place. A prize of $25 has been
offered by George c. Baker, promi
nent member of the local bar to the
student who makes the greatest ad
vancement in this department this
year The prize will be awarded by
committee Of three to be ap-
pointed by the President and it will
be announced at commencement in
June.
There will be no charges in the
department of elocution and the
students will appreciate this on the
part of the authorities. For the first
time in the history of the institu-
ton the crying need Of instruction
in this direction will be met. The
teacher who has been obtained to
take charge is a good man and he
will be deservedly popular with the
students. He is Prot. Patterson.
Benjamin G. Printz who has been
physical instructor for six years at
Wittenberg College, at Springfield,
Ohio, has been secured as director of
the Gymnasium and he will take
charge Of it on Wednesday. The
students will be glad to have man
to devote his attention to the matter
of physical training exclusively and
they will profit by the innovation.
The gym will be a popular place
this winter and the authorities win
see to it that all students avail them
selves of it unless they have very
satisfactory excuse.