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The Athenaeum (Athe-a-nay-um) has a long tradition of serving the students, faculty, and staff of West Virginia University. The publication began in 1887 as a literary magazine when classics were popular in college study, hence the name which refers to the forum in ancient Athens where oratory and debate took place. [3]
Boyd H. "Slim" Arnold, a physical education major from Bayard, West Virginia, was the first Mountaineer selected to serve three years in succession (1937–39) and was the longest tenured until Rock Wilson equaled it from 1991–93. During Arnold's tenure, he became the first Mountaineer to wear the now traditional buckskin uniform.
The first edition of the student newspaper known as the Athenaeum, now The Daily Athenaeum, was published in 1887, and the West Virginia Law Review became the fourth oldest law review in the United States when it was founded in 1894. Kappa Delta, the first sorority at WVU, was established in 1899. [8]
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Athenaeum (British magazine), a weekly London literary magazine 1828–1921; The Athenaeum (Acadia University), a student newspaper of Acadia University, Nova Scotia; The Daily Athenaeum, the newspaper of West Virginia University; The Athenaeum, a novel by Raul Pompéia 1888; Atheneum Books, a children's fiction imprint of Simon & Schuster
The Daily Athenaeum, nicknamed the DA, is the 9th-largest newspaper in West Virginia. [125] Offered free on campus, it generates income through advertisements and student fees. The paper began in 1887 as a weekly literary magazine , with writing, editing and production taken over by the newly formed School of Journalism in the 1920s.
Mountaineer Field, known as the "Jewel of the Mountains", was a football stadium located in downtown Morgantown, West Virginia. It was the home of the West Virginia Mountaineers football team. The stadium, which cost approximately $740,000 to build, was located down the hill from Woodburn Hall, and bordered by Campus Drive to the north ...
He founded and edited the Athenaeum (college journal) in 1889 and was the editor of the Telegram in Clarksburg, West Virginia from 1890 to 1898.. Reed was a member of the West Virginia Senate from 1895 to 1899, and the postmaster of Clarksburg from 1897 to 1901.