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Whereupon Malcolm L. Stephenson, editor of the Trinity Tripod, dared to oppose the suggestion of the dean and made what proved to be the fatal mistake of writing his plea in language that has just the slightest trace of Menckenesque presumption. "We have always thought of college as a spawning ground for individuals," he wrote, "for wrote, "for men who think. Better a radical with a beard and a bomb than a type--a goose-stepper--a man without brains enough or courage enough to declare himself...
Without any ceremony, so the papers have it, the dean dispatched a note to Stephenson informing him that he was suspended for his article which was deemed "prejudicial to good discipline." Certainly a Prussian conception of discipline, one would say. And so Stephenson's fellow students evidently thought, for they presented a petition for the reconsideration of the summary sentence passed upon him. They also secured from other college papers, the CRIMSON among others, copies of editorials wherein student editors opposed their college administration, hoping to convince Dean Troxell that Stephenson's act was as nothing compared to similar instances...
...victim of the boldest, kind of injustice and official stupidity. It is not for outsiders to judge of the duty of Trinity College, but Dean Troxell's original statement, when translated into general terms is certainly a debatable one. Most college students in America would probably vote for Stephenson's side of the argument...
...apart from the question of right, Dean Troxell's action is even more reprehensible on grounds of expediency. Even if Stephenson's editorial were a breach of discipline, courtesy, and good taste, as is asserted on quite doubtful grounds, it was extremely unwise to suppress it on that account. Good taste rests upon something universal in men, and when its canons are disregarded in editorial writing such infraction is in itself quite sufficient to nullify the effect of what one says with one's readers. Even if the faculty's contention be granted then, to suspend Stephenson...
...hundredth anniversary of the steam engine. On Sept. 27, 1825, with no small ceremony and excitement the hitherto horse-drawn cars running from the Darlington coal mines to the Stockton docks (County Durham, England) 37 miles away, were hitched to a steam-driven wagon invented by Engineer George Stephenson of Scotland...