Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-24
PDR|N10A WILL BE- MADE
President N JUNE.
BOARD Of REGENTS DEFERs
ACTION TO AVOID POSSIBLE
PUBLIC CRITICI8M.
STUDENTS MAY DANCE AGAIN
REGENTS ADJOURN TO MEET
JUNE Is, AFTER TRANSACT.
ING ROUTINE BUSINESS.
Special to the Register.

special TO the Register
M0RGANToWN, W. Va, May %
The board of regents adjourned this
afternoon after a three days session
without electing a president, p~ostponing
this action until June. Yesterday it
seemed certain that they would elect a
head for the institution and the Reg
lister correspondent is informed that it
was for no disagreement as to the man
that it was not done at this meeting.
The delay was caused by feeling that
action at their first meeting would be
considered too p~recipitate and would
lay them open to the charge of having
everything cut and dried.
One of the members of the board
stated in conversation that the major
ity of the board favor a certain man
whom me did not name, but it was evil
dent from his talk that he meant DIR.
Purinton.
He stated that at this time the man
they had in mind could not leave his
present position and that the argument
WAtSA Was III Scu lOI tlcIliUu III OTuST
that ne might take up his work here at
once had no weight under the circum-
stances.
He would have to remain where he
is until after the ending of his school
in justice to himself and to the school
under his charge.
They adjourned to meet June Is. The
executive committee viii meet earlier
to prepare reports.
Most Of the work at this session has
been routine. They have passed a few
resolutions of minor Importance. Among
them was that granting the petition OF
the students for a commencement ball
and for dances at the University under
supervision of the commandant of
cadets, Major ]. NJ. Burns. This has
been the cause of much friction in the
past, the students feeling that they
were deprived of social pleasures which
1t would be much better for them to
have under the direction of the author
titles.
Members of the cadet band have been
placed on the same footing as State
cadets, and will receive free books. sta
tlonary, tuition, fees and uniforms. The
organization made a great hit with the
regents.
c. R. Jones, assistant, was made full
professor of mechanical engineering.
u. C. Davis, of Minnesota State nor
NAL school, was elected horticulturist of
the State experiment station, vice l.. C.
Corbett, resigned. He is a graduate of
Kansas and Cornwell.
An order was passed this afternoon
lHOkfnW fOruvorl t4uro IL A.
ment OF a school of mining engineering
with particular reference to coal min
Ding. A committee is to report on it at
the next meeting of the board.
The summer quarter was Endorsed
and the faculty asked to act, but no
expense to be incurred which will have
TO be met by legislative appropriation.
Col. r. ID. Fast was appointed to Sc
cure the library of the late Senator
Wiley as a permanent memorial.
Few of the members have yet left
town. They will go late tonight. Mr..
ID. c. Gallaher left at moor for Wash
tngton, being compelled to leave before
the meeting ended. This evening at
$50 the board witnessed a parade by
the cadet corps and were highly pleased
with the proficiency shown by the
young men.
Steps were taken to get the benefit
OF the State anatomical board, which
will provide subjects for dissection at
the University. This benefit has been
denied the students for several years
on account of the State laws, which
made it a felony to import bodies in
the State for the purpose or to take any
IN the State. The new law gives to the
board the remains of all those who die
In the charitable institutions of the
State and whose bodies are not claimed
by relatives for burial.