The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-22

SViiSSi'NtiNNiiO VI tuS a Vst aIQ cfuVU'
ard, Egotism is disgusting in any
man but absolutely insufferable in
one whose attachments and whose
Judgment are both meagre and faul-
ty. We will not accuse the reporter
of wilful Misrepresentation, but
more charitably ascribe his numerous
derelictions to a misguided and mis-
directed Judgment. Certainly gross
error of Judgment on the part of the
reporter in question was displayed
when he wrote an article near the be-
ginning of the Winter Term for the
Standard, in which he so strongly
conveyed the erroneous idea that Prof,
Brooke, of the Law Department of
the University, was endeavoring to
inculcate into the minds of his pupils
partisan political spirit, and that
the University authorities wished to
suppress Prof. Brooke's freedom of
speech, that the editor of the Stand
ard should devote considerable space
in his columns to an editorial on the
subject!
Surely the gcntlcman's Judgment
was at fault when he wrote to the
same paper an article deriding and
holding mp to ridicule the able lee
ture delivered in the University
Chapel by Senator Frank Hereford. I,
is noticeable that after Senator Here
ford's lecture had been published and
distributed, the Standard contained
lengthy editorial to the effect that
Mr.. Hereford's lecture had been mis-.
represented to the editor of that pa.
per.
Surely the reporters judgment
must have played him false when 1t
induced him, just after the occasion
of the first Senior and Junior per-
Torrance Of the present year, to come
out in the columns of the STANDARD
with report, in which he gave not
only lengthy synopsis of but actu-
ally analysed and commented favora-
bly, upon his own performance, while
at the same time he held up to ridi-
cule that Of G. A. Pearre, member
Of his own class, whose performance
on that occasion and all those since
that time have not only equalled, but
far surpassed those Of the reporter
himself.
The gentleman makes frequent
plumbers of this kind, and displays a
fragrant error of judgment each time
he publishes magnified, distorted and
fallacious reports of minor and unm-
portant occurrences that transpire at
the University, with the apparent
purpose of injuring the institution.
We here venture the assertion that it
would be better if the above mention
cd reporter would quietly and humbly
yield the critics palm to one better
authorized and better qualified to
use it, and henccforth devote himself
more earnestly than in the past to
the strict and accurate delincation Of
facts. In view of the various fail
ings Of our common humanity. we
would have selected just such a man
as our friend, the reporter for the
Post, to be guilty Of the gross error
of supposing that when he bought
programmes for his performance, he
was also paying for an extra "puf-
fling in the columns of the New Do
MINIoN. Surely we could not have
supposed Junior to be the author
of the article in last weeks Post,
were we not so well aware of the
chronic tendency of the reporter for
that paper to make frequent and
grievous blunders in this direction.
His latest blunder is that of publish
ing the article in last weeks Post,
entitled Taxation without Rcpresen-
tation."