The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1903-09-16
UNIVERSITY NOTES.
Professor Elected to take the
Place of Prot. Chollet.
Election is just Announeed-yery Ac-
c0mplished man-Healah Conditions
and Their Influence on UNIVERSITY
Opening Of fall Quarter-Other news
items.
Opening Of the University.

Opening of the University.
The fall quarter at West Virginia Uni
versity will begin Sept. 81. Entrance ex-
aminations will be held on the first three
days of the quarter, and students will be
Registered on the second and third days of
the quarter. The Convocation address
will be delivered by DR.. A. C. True, of
Washington, D. c., Chief Director of Ag-
ricultural Experiment Stations of the Unit
ed States. The fall term attendance PROM
ises to be record-breaking. In the cadet
corps alone there will be at least seventy
five more new men than ever before The
new woman's Hall, or dormitory for the
young lady students, is rapidly filing up,
and there is a much larger demand for
rooms in the town than ever before.
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A New University Professor.
Dr. Andre Beziat de Bordes, at present a
member of the faculty of the University of
Michigan, has just been elected Professor
of the Romance Languages and Literatnres
at West Virginia University, to succeed
the late Professor Charles Choilet, whose
accidental death is so generally deplored.
DIR. de Bordes is native of France, has
studied at various French colleges, and has
his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the
University of Chicago. He has taught In
Barcelona, Spain, in Columbia University,
New York, and in the University of Mich
igan. He speaks readily French, Spanish,
and English, and reads French, Spanish,
Italian, German, Provincial Portuguese,
English and Latin. He is the author of a
French grammar, and has edited other
French texts. Among his recommends
tons are particularly strong ones from
Columbia University, the University of
Michigan, the University of Chicago, and
| from DIR. Hammond, secretary of the
Board of Education for the NJ. E. Church,
South. DIR. de Bordes is thirty-three
years of age, and his wife is graduate of
vassar.
Handsome Gifts to the University.
When the Board of Regents of West
Virginia University were in session the
other day, two handsome gifts to the Uni
yersity were announced. One was gift
of ten thousand dollars by friend of the
University, who does not desire his name
to be used, toward the building of Pres
ident's house; the other gift of five
thousand dollars worth of ground by DIR.
l. G. White, ON which to build the Presi-
dents house. The contract for the house
was let to Hobbs q Company, of Fair
mont, for little over fifteen thousand
dollars. The house is to be entirely of
stone, and work is to begin on it at once.
The contract calls for its completion next
spring 1t will stand across the street
from the magnificent new library building
at the entrance to the University grounds.
What the University Graduates
Are Doing.
For the past year an editorial committee
of the Alumni Association of West yir-
ginia University has had in charge the
compilation and publication of history
of the seven hundred and fifty grad
yates of the University The book has
recently been published, and it makes
remarkably fine showing for the State
University. Among the graduates are five
college presidents, forty-seyen college
professors, three state superintendent of
schools, ten normal school principals,
| twenty-five normal school teachers, ten
bank cashiers, twelve judges, forty-ive
preachers, twenty eight doctors, six Unit
ed States army officers, one United States
| senator, four members of congress, one
governor, one attorney general, one state
members of the house of delegates, sixty
five engineers (civil, mechanical, mining)
forty-three superintendents or principals
of high schools and schools of similar
grade, sixteen editors, about twenty five
business men and farmers, and something
more than 225 lawyers. This list includes
also the first sheriff of Manila, a clerk of
the supreme court of the state, a clerk o
the state senate, clerk of the house of
delegates, chief mine inspector, a wealth
er bureau director in South America, and
the most famous foot ball coach in the
United States.
besides Austria, Mexico, Japan, Siam, In
dia, the Argentine Republic, Bulgaria and
the Philippine Islands.
The list shows that thirty-seven of the
graduates have died.
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