The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

PROF. ARMSTRONG HERE,
A Member of the Faculty of the State University in Town,

Prof. R. A. Armstrong, a member of the faculty of the state university, was in the city yesterday. The university never had a more earnest partisan and worker. Talking to an INTELLIGENCER reporter yesterday, he said:

"There are many reasons why the young men, and young women, too, of Wheeling and of this end of the state, should patronize our State University.
We offer the old literary courses, and besides almost all of the modern professional and practical courses. Students may choose their life profession and make their education count toward that from the start,

"The doctrine to-day is, you know, that mental work which has a practical value is just as good as any other as a discipline. It would, indeed, seem a peculiar misprovision of nature if one kind of knowledge were required to discipline and train the mental powers and another to fit one for the active duties of life.

"Now, we offer practical professional courses, which have been formulated in answer to this demand for more practical things in education. With our endowment, our support from the United States and from the state, we are able to offer advantages equal almost to any school in the country, and when the matter of expense is considered we have decidedly the advantage of most schools.
All West Virginians get free tuition. Books are free to cadets and not expensive to others, and the other expenses are very moderate. The necessary expenses are from $150 to $200 per term.
All these advantages are certainly cheap at those figures."

Prof. Armstrong might have mentioned among the advantages of the university an esprit du corps and earnestness among the faculty not always found in colleges.