The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-03-13

courses here with no fears of their re-
ligious beliefs being shaken. This
school Will be great boon to the Amer
1can nation. Instead Of our young peo-
pie going away from home 10 get that
higher course SO many wish, the stand
ard OF this school will be SO high as to
draw the youth Of other nations to our
shores, to become indoctrinated with
the freedom and love of liberty that they
must here breathe in the very air, and
thus the principles of true Americanism
VIII be carried the world around by the
Very men and women that will WELD
the greatest influence over their people
Thus our nation through 1t will send
out missionaries who will bear q chris
tian civilization to their own people
The influence of such school can only
be thought Of. 1t Is SO great that simple
minds cannot grasp 1t.
This school Is a necessity In another
respect which perhaps Is selfish one.
Our Catholic friends have university
at the Capital city and Professionalism,
in order to hold her own, must give her
young men and women Just as good
chance, If not better, to get higher ed
ucation. as those Of the Catholic church
III i
simply business, and all believers in the
highest development OF the human mind
by their religious belief, be what 1t may,
will join in wishing the Great American
University the fullest success. And right
here 1t might be observed that the
mention or the Catholic university was
not done In order to Intimate even that
1t should not have been established. The
church deserves the greatest praise for
Its progressiveness. In It's establishment
and the Protestant university Is not es-
tablishcd 10 fight 1t. except ms q gener-
our rival to Guido 1t In good works II
| possible.
The writer was led to say what he
has on this subject from the fact that
he has studied much on the matter of
the mission OF the American nation and
the way we are as nation being led,
as It were. In these latter days. He be-
liefes that there Is n higher power that
| governs human affairs and that this
power Just now is using our nation as
a great clvilizer. and may not the es-
tabl!shmcnt Of this great school be one
! OF the chief forces to be used by the
Almighty to spread the true principles
or science along with christian holiness
throughout all the nations that now are
cnshrouded In the darkness Of ignor-
anee and heathenism.
| a general meeting Of the teachers Of
Ritchie school was held on Wednesday
! OF last week In the Office OF the principal
at llI5 q. m. Superintendent Anderson
was present and conducted the meeting
| after the manner of Round Table,
quite n number Of the teachers taking
| part in the exercises. The superInten-
dent gave short talk on the necessity
OF teaching the subject matter under
consideration. Too many teachers con-
fine themselves too closely to the book,
a teacher should know the subject SO
thoroughly that If necessary, she could
teach II, even II there were no text book
on the subject. The true teacher en-
thuses the pupil from her own enthus-
iasm In subject. II takes the person.
amy OF the teacher 10 bring out the In
dividualIty of the pupil.
| Parents day In Richie school. or flays
rather. will be rs follows: Wednesday.
March %, Mt the annex building. and tho
day following at the main building. 1t
was suggested by the superintendent
mat some school work be shown In each
| room. Some of the teachers said that
parents did not come to see school work
but to be entertained and that hereto
| iore while In some rooms lessons were
being recited. In others the entire time
was devoted to entertainment, and the
! visitors would flock to those rooms in
which the entertainment was being held
ana leave those rooms in which the
school work was being shown without
visitors. TO avoid this all rooms will