Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-10
HE UNIV ERSITY.
Le Biennial Reports Of the Presi.
dent and Board Of Regents Ready
for the Legislature.
Special to the Register.

completed and are ready to be placed
before the Legislature. The reports
make book of one hundred and
three pages, and make the most COM
prehensive showing, what the Univer-
sity has done and what it needs, that
has ever been placed before the State
lawmakers.
The president of the board reviews
the causes leading to the removal of
Drs. Goodnight and Meyers and the
placing of DR.. Raymond and Director
Stewart in their places. He says that
politics has been banished from the
University and that whatever has been
done has been a result of united action
and not from partisan standpoint.
Among the recommendations that he
makes is the purchase Of lot of land
from DR.. I. C. White on the lower side
Of the plot owned at present by the
institution, and the addition of several
acres on the northern end of the same
lot. No price has been put on the
former, but the latter has been OPP
toned at $12,500. He recommends
that the wing being built to the Uni
versity hall be completed, and asks for
$4,000 for this purpose; $4,000 are
asked for a south wing to the same
building and $4,000 for furniture for
each of them.
The number of cadets is suggested to
be increased from IA, allowing in ad-
dition one from each county to be ap-
pointed by the delegate from the
county.
Ten thousand dollars is asked for for
a suitable drill hall for the military
department; $4,000 is wanted for paw
ing the several streets in the University
grounds; $1,000 year is asked to be
expended through the press of the
State in advertising; $4,000 is asked
for woman's hall; $4,000 is wanted
for a library apd museum building;
$1,000 year is asked for the support
of the gymnasium; $4,000 for pay of
teachers is wanted. With this Mr..
Sturgiss says that in two years there
will be twelve hundred students here.
A pure food law is asked for, and a
State veterinarian, who should also
be a professor in the University, is
recommended.
THE PRESIDENTS REPORT.
Immediately following the president
Of the board, the president of the
University has his say. He tells of
the enrolment for each year and shows
the wonderful increase of students that
began several years ago and is still
going on. The increase in six years
has more than trebled the number of
students. The summer quarter is
taken up and vigorously defended, and
it is shown that no additional ex-
pense to the State has been made. The
statement is made that the students
fees from the first quarter was $685.
in excess of the amount of extra ex-
penditure for the first quarter of this
work.
The standard of admission has been
raised until the requirements are equal
to those of any college or university in
America. Each candidate here after a
degree will be required to write thesis
before he is graduated.
At the first of the year a number of
schools were placed on the accredited
list. Students entering from these
schools can have credit for work down
In them. They are: Huntington State
Normal, together with all other nor
mails of the State; Lee Military Acad-
envy, Lewisburg, Barboursville College,
Broaddus Institute. Clarksburg; Mar
tinsburg High School, Huntington High
School, Hinton High School, Union
town, Pittsburg and Hanover, Pa, High
schools.
The work of the women students is
very highly spoken of, and the impera-
tive need of Woman's hall is a theme
which calls for extended treatment by
The president. The new departments
are in turn taken up and the work that
they are doing recommended to the at
tention of the Legislature.
A comparison of the amount of
money received from the State and
Federal governments for the support of
the institution shows that the latter
has for long time paid more to help
it along than the State has done.
A plea is made for a millage tax of
one half mill on the assessed valua-
ton of the property in the State This
will enable the University to become
Independent and not have to ask each
recurring Legislature fop the very nee
essaries of life. A tax such as propos-
ed will yield Sill 900 year for the sup
port of the institution. No other school
of like kind in the country receives as
low an appropriation. Even Utah and
other far western states do better by
the boys and girls than we do.
The summary of the desires of the