The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-05-09
LAMONA'S LATEST.
lie Comes Back at Our Halleck
Correspondent OH the Dane
ing Question.
TO the Editor of the NEw nom1SIoS.

ShS hdS fcsiNeu tue OH controversy
in regard to the students dancing
club. | would not reply, but for Tho
fact that his letter is intended to de
ceive your readers, and thereby {,
do great injustice to both the present
faculty and to the Rev. j. r. Thomp-
son. Several of your readers have
called on me and desire that should
answer it. Your correspondent
claims to have received letters from
Dir Martin and ii. r. Thompson, both
disclaiming that there ever was a
dancing club in connection with the
University during the time they were
connected with it.
Well who said there was? Had
your correspondent propounded the
same question to Prof Berkeley
that he did to other persons, he
would answer just the same.
l never heard of dancing club
in connection with the University.
and don't think any one else did.
The idea certainly originated in the
muddled brain of your Correspond
ent Now Nr. HaIleck Correspond
ent you have devoted TWO months to
trying TO erect a mountain, but it has
dwindled into an insignificant mole
hill. As / stated in my last letter
the students did have four dancing
clubs previous to the one last winter,
but neither ofthem were in connection
with the University. One when they
engaged Prof. Coda of Baltimore to
teach them; two in 1874 and one in
1878. They obtained the consent of
the faculty to engaS a teacher each
time, and il your correspondent
wishes to know anything more of
these clubs | will give him the names
OF a number of students who belong.
ed to each club. They embrace the
names of young men of the highest
standing who have already won honor
and renown and who are probably
destined to occupy some of the high
est positions in our land. Some of
the members of the club of 1878, of
which you was member, Mr.. Editor,
and can verify what l state, refused
to take part unless Pres. Thompson
gave his consent. Therefore the club
committee to see Mr..
Thompson and if possible get his
consent. The committee reported
that they had called upon Mr. Thomp-
son and stated to him that they had
formed club and proposed to en-
gage a dancing teacher with his con-
sent, and that Mr.. Thompson gave
his consent willingly and without
any hesitation. The members of this
are men of the highest
standing and some of them occupy
some of the highest positions in our
state. Then why did the Rev. Mr..
Thompson make the reply as stated
III your correspondents letter? Be
cause your correspondent cunningly
framed his question to Mr.. Thomp-
son so that he could not answer in
my other way. Had your cores
oondent asked Rev. j. r. Thompson
the students had q dancing
club during his connection with the
University, and if he gave his CON
'ent for them to take lessons in dane
ng, Mr. Thompson would have an
'wered in the Affirmative and perhaps
10 stated in his letter to your cor
respondent. Your correspondent
'nly gave very small quotation from
Mr.. Thompson's letter.
The dancing club last winter had
10 more connection with the Uni
'ersity than any of the reported
ormer clubs. The faculty followed
n the footsteps of their predecessors.
Why do you, Mr.. Halleck cores
try to cover up the actions
# former faculties, when under Re-
presidents, and now censure
he present faculty for doing the
anne; because the present manage
nent of the University is Democrat
c? 1t is politics that is hurting
nd not dancing.
Your correspondent further says,
eferring to me: "He tried to raise
unity between the faculty and me-"
70, sir! You are mistaken. But if
our letters have not made the facul-
y your enemy it is because they re-
ard your calibre too small to pay
ny attention to you. Again, in my {
notation from Washington he says:
Whoever stated it stated an absur-
ity." Gewhilikins! Who is this !
reat Caesar from Clinton, that puts
is judgment against our beloved
Washington? He quotes stuff from /,
-lbert D, Vail. Who is Mr.. Vail? ,
never saw him, Does he live up in
lintonp But / will give a quota
on from sermon delivered by DR..
'almage. man of world wide repu
alton, and considered by many as
lie most eloquent and gifted divine
he world ever knew, Il would give
} our youth the right to romp and
lay. God meant it, or he wonld (
OF have surcharged our natures \
it'll such exuberance. If mother
inns hands with her children, and
lille the eldest strikes the keys,
lis the house with the sound of a
gile feet, see no harm in it. If
w friends gathered in happy circle
to cross and re-cross the G
'om to the sound of the piano, / see {
, harm. If a company of people,
] known to the host and hostess to
respectable, move around the
'om to the sound Of musical instru- q,
ents, / can see no HARM" Your
'rrespondent's quotation in regard 81
Lafayette is correct in the main.