West Virginia University - Monticola Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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' ■ : MJi,iee£ii SXt:p? As this is the age of woman suffrage, microbes, and other objectionable pests, we have three of what our Dean calls the weaker vessels . . . Miss Walters with her anaphalactic conscience makes 100% in anatomy but has a normal reflex awake. — 1913 Monticola. These objectionable pests had been strolling around since 1889, when coeducation was finally accepted at WVU. Women are an organizing kind, and in 1 900 the Women ' s League was formed with great success, but later disbanded to become the Women ' s Student Government Association. Women weren ' t such a detriment to the sports world either. In 1923 the coed rifle team affiliated with the National Rifle Association and later won a perfect score competing against men. Dorothy Snyder was one such sharpshooter. Being in a rural state, WVU was interested in agriculture from the very beginning. The bottle washing machine pictured below was a 1908 agricultural experiment station project, and the Farmer ' s Week exhibit above took place in 1930. Experimental farms were added in dairy husbandry (1889), animal husbandry (1916), horticulture (1916), poultry (1916), and agronomy (1961), with land also in Jefferson, Preston, Mason and Randolph counties. 10

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. ' .f -, l r ' ' ,7 iloii pit 4Ztt4 yc .IHtirr, Mor Rlllonii, W. Vp. ■.ft ' f -i t ' r. At the intersection of College and University Avenues, Oglebay Hall later replaces Agricultural Experiment Station pictured behind late model vehicle. Spraying project for Experiment station, 1910. i mi«..