Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-07-29
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.

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rho Work OF Its First simmer Term.
Advanced Thought In sociology-Dr.
Lester r. Ward. President Andrews and
Others In the lecture Rooms.
1t is matter of great pride to West
Virginians that the first summer quar-
ter of the West Virginia University is
being inaugurated with such success
and interest in every department OF
the work. Heretofore there has been
a three weeks vacation during the
summer but with the present year,
through the energy and advanced spir-
it of President Raymond, the Univer-
sity has extended through the four
quarters Consequently, despite the
heat, The walls and courts of old Alma
Mater are thronged with students.
many Of whom come hither from states
as remote as Washington, Wisconsin
and Texas, while all parts of the
North and South are Represented. The
West Virginia University is surely.
and even swiftly, acquiring hold up
on the country at large, so that the
people of the State may look forward
to the time when their institution shall
be not only matter of state pride. but
the Union. 1t is apparent that the
democratic and liberal spirit diffused
here and the especial prominence given
to the study of the active social inter-
ests of the day, must work together
for vital influence in the University
beyond that which it ever experienced.
And, too, the natural location, the alb
sence in this area of strong sectional
no i,,di hn q
site from the distractions of the outer
world all lend themselves to the es-
adjustment of thorough American
institution, broad and comprehensive
in its scope, and alive to all the inter-
ests of the hour.
Perhaps the most conclusive proof
| Of the wide-awakeness of the work now
| in progress is the special emphasis
given to the subject of Sociology in the
present term. 1t would be safe to say
| that no university in the country can
boast of finer opportunity in this
science than the one being carried on
here Dr. Raymond himself has been
associated in this particular field at
the Universities of Wisconsin and Chi
cago. He is now giving the fruit of
his experience in a very valuable series
Of lectures, entitled ga Historical
Survey of Sociological Thoughts" The
development of ideas which may in
| bread sense be termed sociological is
traced from antiquity down to present
times. Thus the whole range of the
progress in society is offered to the
student of philosophy. DR.. Lester F.
Ward, of the Smithsonian Institute, of
Washington, D. c., is conducting a
course of two lectures daily upon 80
GEOLOGY, Pure and Applied" These are
attended by professors of ether col
leges, ministers and men of general
scholarship, besides the numerous stu
dents who belong to the classes. DR..
Ward is the most distinguished scient-
ist in America in the social field. His
books, Dynamic Sociology" Psychic
Factors of Civilization" and Outlines
of Sociology" may be said to be
really epOch-making, in view of the
fact that they treat of the dynamic side
Of human progress, the change of the
| social institutions and functions. Here
| tOfore, the great body of sociologists
| have dealt mainly with the statistical
| aspect, which refers more to a consid
| GRAFTON of institutions in their present
| form. These lectures of DR.. Ward
compose his whole system of thoughts,
! as not yet published, and contain I'M
| der the heads of the Androcentric and
| Gynaecocentric Theories of the Repro
! uuCL1yC ---r-vCs. .exposttton OF
| entire woman question from the SCI
entific point of view In addition, Dr.
| Ward, who is our leading authority on
paleo-bOtany is giving a course of five
! public lectures upon Plant Evolution,
illustrated by stereopticon views.
! Closely in touch with the attention
| to Social Science, comes the admira-
| Bile courses by Professor Hamilton, of
| Syracuse University, upon Money and
Banking and Industrial Problems. DR.
Hamilton's conversancy with the great
themes CT commercial and industrial
| interchange gives him easy command
over his subject, and imparts great
profit to his classes.
The advent on Saturday next of
| President E. Benjamin Andrews, of
Brown University, is attended with
| general interest. The public has not
yet forgotten the courageous stand
! made last year by DR.. Andrews for
freedom in education. He will lecture
/ on Saturday night and twice on Sun
| day. Miss Adams, of the Hull House
| SOCIAL Settlement, of Chicago, and Pro-
lessor Zeubin, of the University Of
| Chicago, will arrive in August. and will
| conduct courses on the subject of So
| clal Experiment and Social Science at
| Large. The regular work of the Uni
| versity in all departments is being car
| RED on with equal ardor and interest
LAURA STERRETTE McADOO.