Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-01-13
TAM MANY.
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told us to meet she faculty at Ais
o'clock in the afternoon of the same
day, select spokesman from each
committee and present our respect
i've sides of the controversy. This
we did and the faculty after two
hours deliberation passed the follow
ing resolution:
That this petition be dismissed
because it does not present sufficient
grounds to Justify inference by the
faculty.
Anti-Tammany next called meet
ing and elected the rest of their
ticket several of our members not
caring to attend the meeting.
About two months before this
trouble began a motion had passed
the society to the effect that the
President appoint a committee Of
three members whose duty it should
be to arrange for public perform
ance to take place before the holt
days. This committee decided to
have it on Dec. 10 at s o'clock and
SO notified the society.
Before proceeding farther let me
quote the following Section of our
constitution
Art. VI, Sec. |. "The regular
meetings of this society shall be
held on the Friday evening of each
week during term time. The hour
of meeting shall be Z o'clock ?. NJ.
You will perceive that on the
night of the Public performance
that the society would have to meet
at o'clock unless there had been
a motion made and carried at the
previous meeting to adjourn over
that night There was no such mo-
ton made. And consequently we
were justified in doing what we did
do in going up there with our force
and undoing by reconsideration
what they had done. At this meet
ing there were IL of our faction and
5 of theirs present.
We have been censured for what
we did on that night. But | chal
lenge any one who voted against us
on the final outset to show wherein
we did anything in derogation of our
constitution or Roberts Rules of or
der by our action on that occasion.
Space will not allow me to go into
detail We had suffered defeat-ig
nominous defeat. But by our vigi-
lance we snatehed victory from de-
feat. Now observe the action of our
opponents-of the same gentlemen
who appeared before the faculty and
asked that we be left ''to work out
our own salvation" They clandes
timely called meeting of the inter
society committee. They plead the
baby act. Impressed upon them
that unless they become a supreme
court of adjudication as well as a
committee of arrangements that
there would be no inter-society con-
test And by thus showing dis
position to run rather than fight,
they consented to let the Parthenon
society-our opponents in the COZ
test, choose our weapons with which
to fight
The members of the inter society
committee tried to administer equity
in rendering their decision. And we
do not say that they did not succeed.
But we contend that some reA ard
should have been paid to the cousti
tuition Of the society and Roberts
Rules of order in reaching a conclu
sion. In this free country, where we
are restrained only by constitu lions
and laws made in extenuation there
of--the very bulwark of our
freedom-it is hard to have those
in authority take apon them
selves the responsibility of set
thing disputes intuitiyely or ia
other words by equity, which is of
ten very unsatisfactory, when set
rules could be followed, the result
of which nobody could take excep-
ton to.
Members of the committee, ex-
cepting the President of the Univer-
sity who took no part in it more
than to preside, let me say to you
that if you allowed yourselves to be
guided in reaching a conclusion by
doing what you believed to be equity
without paying any attention to
our constitution or Roberts Rules
of order or if Won permitted YOUR