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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morgantown hills around the University is fine glass sand. The state's glass and glassware industry, with $50,000,000 production yearly, looks to the laboratories for pure research in glassmaking...
...state produces more hardwood lumber than any other except Arkansas. And it has on its mountains great wealth in yellow poplar, birch, ash, oak, spruce, hemlock, walnut. They too must be wisely utilized...
West Virginia expects much from its land grant university. The state covers the twisted knot of Appalachian mountain ridges. Soft coal constitutes its great wealth. Its coal, petroleum and natural gas sales approximate a third of a billion dollars a year. Those minerals West Virginians want to conserve and at the same time get more money for each year's output. They expect their state university to tell them...
Agriculture is the preoccupation of practically all state universities, but not of West Virginia, although its corn, hay, tobacco, potatoes and fruits are worth $100,000,000 each year. Its hillbilly farmers are too difficult to reach with farming information...
...immediate dependency upon the University is the state legislature's. The senators and representatives expect the law school professors to draft laws and even to guarantee their authority...