Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-18

| MENCEMENT VISITORS BEGIN
MING TO ARRIVE-BOARD OF
REGENTS WILL HAVE AT
LEAST A FEW IMPORTANT MAT
TIERS TO CONSIDER SERMONS
TO THE PUPILS TO-DAY-LAST
NIGHTS PROGRAMME.
| Special to the Register
! MORGANTOWN, M. Va, June IT,
The town and University are now CIV
ing themselves up wholly to the enjoy
ment of the various Commencement ex-
erclses which are now under full head
way. The contest last night between
the two societies has aroused the in
teTeaL OF everyone in what is going ON,
and the exercises will all be wei at
tended from this on.
Inc Parthenons are stung by the
first defeat and they will go into the
contest ON tuesday night 10 retrieve
their lost ground. There is some dis
satisfaction with the grading OF one
of the judges, who marked the atfirma-
tive 100, and did not give the negative
ed in his grades. However, the affirm
alive had the vote of each judge, so
the grading of the first man did not
affect the result.
/ The town is beginning to fill up with
the usual crowd of Commencement
! visitors. A number Of prominent peo
pie have already arrived and others
are expected.
Hon. P. G. Eastman, of Point Pleas
ant, came in this morning and he is
the only member of the board to ar
rive as yet, although the call for the
meeting set to-day as the time for
| them to begin the meeting. He stated
that he did not expect anything of in
terest to be taken up before Monday,
when the regular grind will begin.
| Among the matters to be attended to
| is the election of a successor to Prof
Sanders, of the chair OF European his
/ tory, who has left here for New Mexico,
| where he goes to take charge Of the
Agricultural College of that State, to
which position he was recently elected.
j A successor to Prof w. S. Aldrich may
! also have TO be chosen. A head for
| the new department of Domestic
! Science will be elected
! Besides this, the board will select
the plans for the three new buildings.
| They had referred the plan to three
committees, but the members of the
bodies which had the plans under con-
slderation have referred them back to
the board. as they were unable to de-
eide among themselves what was
wanted
! 1t is reported quietly that there may
| be some surprises when the board gets
down to work. Their action in raising
the salary of the president six hundred
dollars at the last meeting on account
of the criticism to which he had been
subjected is not to be taken to mean
that they heartily endorse every thing
| that has been done, and they will point
| out several things that they think
ought to be done differently. They are
very close mouthed about their plans
and intentions. but it is known that
everything is not as serene as it APP
pears to be on the surface.
A. Lee Post, who has been made a
Fellow in Chemistry for another year,
will not accept the position, as he has
been offered several others that are
better. He has been rendered a posi-
ton on the faculty of the Methodist
Seminary at Buckhannon, which was
made vacant by the resignation of T.
w. Taught, who will go to Harvard for
course of lectures next year. Mr..
Post may take this. but he has several
other offers and is still undecided.
The baccalaureate sermon in the
morning will be preached in Commence
ment Hall by Rev. Benjamin Terry, of
the University of Chicago. Ali the
other churches in town will suspend
their services and the congregations
will attend in a Sdy the service at the
university. Each of the pastors of
town will take part and the music will
be rendered by the Choral Union of
one hundred voices.
Dr. Terry will preach in the evening
to the members of the Y. NJ. C. A and
great many people are expected to
attend this also.
The annual contest open to members
of the preparatory department was held
tonight The prize is SIS in gold, Of
fered by the members of the board of
regents. The interest was very great
and the audience was large.
The performance was of a very high
degree of merit and the audience was
moved to great applause frequently.
Inc Judges were hon. IL. M. turner,
of Morgantown, Prof. /. n. Deahl. of
West Liberty, and Miss Matte Brock,
of Morgantown.
The programme was as follows:
Piano Valse Militaire ............... Leybach
Miss Davis.
Defamation. ..............T The Evils of War
J. w Clark. Morgantown.
defamation. ..-..--..I Inc SnipWfeck
Miss Bertha Compton. Mt Morris Pa
Vocai-''So Long, So Long .........Denza
Miss Mary Hayes.
DeCldlldIlon
AR Brown Has His Hair CUT
Miss Katherine Fetzer, Moorefield
Trio for two v;olins and piano
Messrs. Keene and McMurphy and
Miss Martin.
Defamation. .....-An Order for a Picture
Miss Mertha B. Schaeffer Morgantown.
Piano duet-Christmas Eve. Heller
Misses Bessie Gregg and Sadler.