West Virginia University - Monticola Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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Throughout Our College Year. HEN the last, lingering days of September have mellowed away on the hills, and marshaled cornfields wave their golden bannerets in the dreamy air, the West Virginia student, erstwhile released from books, packeth his gripsack and hustleth back to College. The fleeting, ejihemei-al Desciple of the Summer Quarter has fled to his native heath, and left the ground to the undisputed possession of his more fortunate co-seeker after knowledge. Prom up and down the Monon- §ahela come the devastating bands, eager and lusty for tlie rich spoils of learning. From distant McDowell and untamed Mingo, from the isolated Pan-handles, East and North, from Randolph ' s rugged mountains and Greenbrier ' s pleasant pastures, the hopeful sons of planters, miners, bank- ers, lawyers and alas for discipline, of ministers — all with widely different degrees of devotion, but avowedly a common purpose, make this Autumnal Pilgrimage to West Virginia ' s chief seat of learning. The first week of the new term after the Elective Summer Vacation, is full of rich e.xperience for the novice, and fraught with rare pleasure for the initiated. There are endless hand-shakings and greetings that over- flow with cordiality; the Senior has smiles of recollection and welcome for the Prep. For the time being, cla.ss and club distinctions are obliterated, and student meets student in good fellowship on the common level of their humanity. What a delightful mixture of romance and reality the scenes on the campus during the day and in Commencement Hall at night present. To the new-comer it seems his dream of college life is more than realized. Though the picture of his fancy was brilliant and glowing, it was still too somber-hued to do the subject justice. The campus is yet greener than was ever sung by college poet. The bordering trees are ablaze with the splendor of Autumn their verdant summer foilage has been turned into myriad pennants of purple and gold. On three sides the rounded hills rise in gi-een and fertil slopes to majestic heights. The graceful contour of their swelling ci-ests is modeled, by the softautumn haze, into gentle curves and undulating lines of classic beauty. Away to the south, Dorsey ' s Knob seems dim and far in the distance. On the west, the campus falls away to the river ' s edge in a steep declivity. Up the river and down the river the hills, sullen guardians of the water ' s course, lie in irregular profusion. The river hides itself from sight in a sweeping curve, and when a reverse curve brings it to view again farther down, as it shines in the sunlight, it seems a huge cycle dropped from the hand of some Titanic hill. As the student stands for the first time amid this wealth of scenery, it seems ta him that nature in her generous autumn mood, robed in her richest garments, 1(3

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Other Officers. ANNA BANCROFT WHITE, B.S., Assistant in the University Library. ALBERT JACKSON COLLETT, Secretary to the President. ELLA ELIZABETH EGBERT, Secretary to the President. Staff of the Agricultural Experiment Station: JAMES HENRY STEWART, A.M., Director and Agriculturist. ANDREW DELMAR HOPKINS, Ph.D., Vice-Director and Entomologist. BERT HOLMES HITE, M.S., Chemist. LEE CLEVELAND CORBETT, M.S., Horticulturist. WILLIAM EARL RUMSEY, B.S.Agr., Botanist and Assistant Entomologist. THEODORE FERME WATSON, B.S., Assistant Chemist. HORACE ATWOOD, M.S., Assistant Agriculturist. CHARLES DANPORTH HOWARD, B.S., Assistant Chemist. »Died January 14. 1900.

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