The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-20

al Apes npn y $lbptbD0 ~ The
hta;y Is eperI.x about ss3sEce. 10 d
year ipr books { Siles and already hrs
a good working collection of $4,000
bound volumes. The University has
thirty laboratories. The physical and
chemical laboratories are exceptional
lfy well equipped. The museums Of
geology and natural history are small,
but the geological museum, valued at
se.5oo.oo.A is slowly growing. The bi.
illogical and physiological laboratories
are adequate To the present needs. The
laboratories and collections of the Elk
pertinent Station and College Of Agri.
culture are perhaps more efficient for
their purpose than those of the other
University departments. the rare col.
lection In entomology and forestry was
made by DR.. A. D. Hopkins, now In
charge Of the United States Bureau OF
Entomology at Washington, D. C. 1t
may be said Of all this apparatus that
Il has the advantage OF being the lat.
est and best of its kind.
Annua cone
The University has an endowment
OF only %s11e.0oo.oo. It is assisted by
the Morrill, Fund, the Hatch Fund,
and the interest on the land grant.
From these sources 1t receives annu.
ally $i5,000.00. The legislature appro.
PIRATES about st3o,0oo.oo yearly. The
Income from taltion Is about s16,oeo.oo.
In all, the UniversIty's resources for
all purposes do not exceed S230,O0O.OO
annually. OF this amount s115,O0o.oO
is used for salaries. Z
The Faculty.
At present there are 70 members OF
the faculty. OF these, % give instruc.
ton in engineering, law. medicine, mu.
sic and fine arts, though In evara in.
stances they give courses counted for
the A. b or B. s. degree. Thus there
are so men deyoting themselves almost
Exclusively to purely academic instruc.
ton. The aim of the past eight or
nine years has been to get the best
TRAINED specialists obtainable for each
subject and to make 1t possible for
leach instructor to devota himself to
his specially alone. The faculty is
now constituted thus: Professors, 80;
associate professors, a; assistant pro-
fessors, S; instructors, IS; laboratory
and other assistants, Is. Twelve
members of the faculty hold doctors
degrees representing Columbia t2),
Chicago, Cornell, Nebraska, Johns
Hopkins az, Harvard, Michigan and
Grenoble. Thtrtysnine OF the faculty
hold 1nasters, degrees and sixty-one
hold bachelors' degrees. A number OF
thu faculty have car led on graduate
work in foreign universities: notably
at Leipsig, Freibarg. Berlin. Thu sor-
bonnie and Naples. In all, more, than
40 institutions OF collegiate or :1niver.
slty grade are represented on the fac.
uity.
The publications of President pnrln-
ton in philosophy; Dean Hogg in law;
Professors Johnston in biology, Gala.
han and Fleming in history: Emory
In mathematics and engineering: Trus.
colt in German; Brooke and Wiley in
law; Brown and Grimsley in geology;
Barbe. in literature, and Thompson
in music have received favorable at.
tention.
The Number Of studente.
The University has reason TO be
proud Of the increase in the lumber
OF students. Up to ten years ago the
number OF students enrolled in any
year had never reached 900. In 1902,
the total number was 755; 1923, s35;
in 1904, 991; in 1904,5, 1105; in 1906
G. Ills. This patronage comes not
only from every county in West Viz
ginia, but from many other States and
from a half dozen foreign countries.
During the last FIVE years the
growth of attendance in the colleges
granting degrees has been about sew
enty-two per cent. President Purin.
ton has recently made a study OF the
growth CT American State colleges and
universities during the past five or six
years. and says that with the single
exception of the University of Illinois
the percentage of growth at West vir-
sinia University is the largest in the
country.
In common with most colleges
throughout the United States. West
Virginia has shown a smaller increase
In her College of Arts and Sciences
than in some other departments; but
West Virginia feels some qualification
that In a State where the development
of mining, engineering and manufac-
turing calls in such imperioas tones
for men to conquer nature and acquire
wealth, the number still remain loyal
to culture for It's own sake has at least
not declined. The total number OF stu
dents in the College of Arts and
Sciences alone has been for the five