Word: tripod
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pitch-soaked torches roared high one night last week in the public courtyard of the Central Prison at Angora, A Death-lured crowd, chattering expectantly, hushed as four tripod gallows were erected. Eerie as ghosts in the flickering light, four white-clad condemned men paced silently from their cells...
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...
...dean was inexorable, and the faculty passed an equivocal vote upholding freedom of speech but condemning the Tripod utterance as contrary to "the canons of courtesy and good taste...
Upon the strength of these facts, which we believe are correct, we are filled with commiseration for the students of Trinity and for the editor of the Tripod in particular, who appears as a 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...
Last week at Jackson Mills (Ocean Co.), N. J., one George W. Perry, geologist of Los Angeles, Calif., reluctantly demonstrated to incredulous newspaper reporters the "Perry Mineral Indicator," a tripod apparatus fitted with compass, dials and a brass cylinder like the weight from a grandfather clock, suspended by a silken, tubular thread. Perry claimed that the cylinder contained secret ingredients which caused it to oscillate, gyrate, agitate when in the vicinity of subterraneau oil, even thousands of feet in the earth. He, Perry, was the only living soul that could operate the marvelous machine, which he did by bringing...