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Notes Chapter 1 1 . Earle D. Ross, Democracy's College: The Land-Grant Movement in the Formative State (Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State College Press, 1942), p. 79. 2. Festus Summers, manuscript, "History of WVU," p . 10. 3 . Ross, op. cit. , p . 100. 4. Ibid. , p . 104. 5. Alexander Martin, Inaugural Address, June 27, 1867. 6. John Phillip Reid, An American Judge: Marmaduke Dent of West Virginia (New York: New York University Press, 1968), p. 47. 7. Ibid. , p. 7. Chapter 2 1 . M. H. Dent, ''The First Experiment," Monticola, IX, pp. 76-77. 2. Ibid. 3. I. C. White, ''TheWest Virginia University of Fifty or Fifty-Five Years Ago," The West Virginia University Alumni Quarterly (1923), p . 17. 4 . Samuel Woods to George Sturgiss, January 20, 1876, President's Office Records. 5. As quoted in the Morgantown Weekly Post, September 11, 1875, from the Grafton Sen­ tinel and September 4, 1875, from the West Virginia Journal. 6. As quoted in Charles H . Ambler, Waitman Thomas Willey (Huntington, West Virginia: Standard Printing and Publishing, 1954), pp . 184-85. 7. According to a letter to Lucas from T. C . Greene, August 14, 1878, which Lucas enclosed with his letter recommending Brooke to President Thompson in lieu of himself. Lucas to Thompson, September 2, 1878, President's Office Records. 8. Morgantown Weekly Post, January 31, 1880, from Wheeling Register correspondence signed "A.B.C." in an article entitled ''Triumph of Law and Order: In the Contest with the Whiskey Dealers of Morgantown" dated December 29, 1879. 9. As quoted in James M. Callahan, manuscript, "History of WVU," p . 60. 10. Joseph Moreland to A. B . Fleming, May 27, 1881, and E. A. Bennett to J. B . Jackson, January 24, 1883, President's Office Records. 11. Festus P. Summers, William L. Wilson, Diary, p. 43. 12. See New Dominion, December 2, 1882; February 3, September 1, 1883. 349 350 NOTES Chapter 3 1 . West Virginia Journal of Education, March 12, 1879 . 2 . Morgantown Weekly Post, October 15, 1892, quoting Wheeling Intelligencer correspondent 's article on Campbell's speech of October 1, Mannington, West Virginia. 3. Ibid. , February 16, 1889. 4 . Berkeley to Fleming, March 2, 1891, President's Office Records. 5 . Goodknight to Elkins, February 3, 1897, President's Office Records. 6. Morgantown Weekly Post, October 5, 1895 and March 7, 1896 . 7. Morgantown Weekly Post, May 2, 1896, quoting the Wellsburg Herald. 8. Flyer, Prexy and His Efforts for Discipline by "Truthful James," President's Office Records . 9 . Flyer, The Life of a Great (?) Man which will be Wisely Re(a)d for Everyone Nose Him, abstract from the Presbyterian Banner, President's Office Records. 10. Public Papers of Governor W. A. MacCorkle, March 4, 1893 to March 4, 1897 (Charles­ ton, West Virginia: Moses W. Donnally, 1897), pp . 516-17. Chapter 4 1 . State press comment in Fairmont Index as quoted in Morgantown Weekly Post, July 1, 1897. 2. Frances E. Willard, "A Knight of the New Chivalry, or the Newsboy Who Became College President," Success, Volume I (December, 1897), n.p. 3 . "Report of the Special Committee to Visit the University," Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of West Virginia, 1899, February 20, 1899, p. 587. 4. Letter, President Raymond to Harvey F. Smith, October 10, 1900, President's Office Records. 5. See Chapter 32, Acts of the Legislature, 1901, pp . 86-88 and letter, Alfred E. Thayer to President Raymond, March 23, 1900, President's Office Records. 6. Thomas C . Atkeson, Pioneering in Agriculture, p . 146 . 7. Charles H. Ambler, A History of Education in West Virginia (Huntington: Standard Print­ ing Company, 1951), pp. 337-38. 8 . Morgantown Evening Post, May 11-12, 1900. 9 . Letter, Frank P. Corbin, December 3, 1900; Mayor Posten, October 13, 1900; C . N . McWhorter, October 1 8 , 1900 to Committee o n Student Affairs. 10. John R. Wallace to Sub-Committee on Student Affairs, October 14, 1900. 11. Letters, E. T. Hartman to President Raymond, August 1, August 5, and November 21, 1898. President's Office Records. 12. See letter, Raymond to Professor H. N. Mateer, University of Wooster, June 23, 1898 . 13. John Phillip Reid, An American Judge: Marmaduke Dent of West Virginia (New York: New York University Press, 1968). p. 103 . 14. All of these negative criticisms can be found in committee report of a joint committee con­ sisting of three Republicans and two Democrats to "Investigate the management and af­ fairs of the . . . University," in Journal of...

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