Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-07
THE MILLERSVILLE IMBROGLIO.
COATES EXfELLED AND HIPPLE SUs
PENDED.

/ SclvCS . luC VlOLSttVu VI AuACS stt1u tAC Ut
ganizcd attempt to cOercc the faculty
The latter had been advised by the trus-
tees to take . firm stand against the spirit
advise the students not to be hasty. Criti
cism by students Of action by the faculty
will not be allowed in this chapel. The
faculty had resolved that all who have
been engaged in such effort deserve and
ing himself or herself from classes, or with.
drawing from the school without permis.
sion, or induigins in open contempt
for tho regulations be suspended
that any student suspended or expelled be
prohibited from entering tho grounds or
buildings; that MIR. ]. w. Coates, Of Ly-
coming editor and reader Of the Objec
tiOnable article, ut Saturday evenings 5
public entertainment ON "Tho AutOcracy
Of Millersvillc ", be expelled, and Mr.. j.
B. Nipple, Of Mt. Joy (critic for the Occa-
sion, who had measurably commended the
article), be suspended.
| These announcements have intensified
the prevailing excitement, and there is
talk of demonstration by the students
when Coates and Hipplc tako their lie :
parture.
! Origin of the Troubles.
| 1t seems that the free criticisms Of the
faculty's regulations, recently INDUCED in
by the society papers, relate mainly to the
stringent prohibition Of the assOciating Of
the sexes ut tho late public anniversaries.
The following from the article read ON
Saturday evening, by Editor Coates will
show the nature Of his offending:
| When tho bombs in the hands Of
Nihilistic assassins had terminated the
life OF the great Alexander, autOcrat of all
the Russias, the world, holding up its
hands in horror ut the act and hcsitating
yet to pronounce upon tho justice or in
justice Of that deed OF blood, said !: In
no other part of the world exist like Cir
cuinstances to produce or make necessary
such u result
'And yet, the world was wrong it had
not heard Of the state normal school at
Millersville. It did not know that upon
the soil of America there existed an i'll
dividual or number Of individuals, who a.
rOgate to themselves powers and privi-
lcges accorded only ~ despots anll auto
crats-pOwers whose prosecution tramples
upon the rights which constitute tho
fundamental principles Of our national
constitution. But that such state Of
affairs has real, absolute, undOubted
existence is patent to every observer; it is
a glaring fact to which only they who will
fully close their eyes can be blind. =
"Accepting as solid sense the general
principle that at an educational institu-
tiOn the sexes should not associate too
much with each other; passing by un-
argued tho more strict application Of
this principle, and allowing for the sake of
argument that the nOtOriOusly stringent
and absurtlly unjust rules relating to the
ladies alone arc all they should BIC, We ask
whether tho rule announced and enforced
ut the recent anniversary exercises is not
slightly too bad? ask, is there an iOta
of sound judgment, is there the faintest
suspicion of the exercise Of common
sense, in rule which will not
allow lady student to see her
brother Cor any other male visitor for all
that) ut any place but in Il hot, crowded.
noisy apology for y parlOr? Is there any
idea likely to be excited in tho public
mind other than contempt, by u rule
which will not permit q gentleman to es-
cOrt his sister to Lancaster on her way
home? What syllable of commentator
can be uttered in behalf Of u regulation
which separated man from his wife and
drove Il graduate of the school, in rs hon.
Orable 4 standing rs any member of the
faculty, like small boy across the yard
for the offence of talking to two old, gray
headed ladies', the parents of some Of
his former pupils? What member, present
or past, of this school can hear of these
things and not be ashamed Of the institu-
tiOn? What sentiment other than con-
tempt and ridicule can be aroused in the
minds Of the public!'
cit has even been declared that tho
reading of an article like this is incen-
diary; that to speak the truth in public
here is treason to the school. 1t is pro-
posed that the right Of free speech shall
be interfcrcd with. Like those of old,
prosecuted for their religion, you can
think what you please, but can't say
it. Our modern John Adams has
attempted to revive the alien and setitiOn
laws which the world had thought forever
buried beneath that terrible wave of in
diSnatiOn, under whose seething waters
the Fcderalist party went down into the
black night of total destruction. Here in
Millersville, 8 in the land Of tue free and
home Of the brave it is proposed to put
a curb upon the tongue Of American citi-
zens; it is proposed that wrongs shall not
be righted shall not even be complained
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the absolute perfection Of tho authorities
and Of the complete holiness and sancSSfi-
cation of their laws, shall be branded rs .
traitor, i felOn. al OutcaSt, a Pariah, u
moral leper. He who does not be-
lievc that the powers that be are
animated BY desire for our good, that
their every wish is pregnant with desire
for the uplifting of their race; he who
dares raise his feeble voice to protest
against what he considers wrong, to ask
for closer Approximation of an equivalent
for the money he pays, or to express =
doubt as to the wisdom of certain regula-
tiOns, shall under our alien and seditiOn
laws be considered rs dangerous to the in
terests of the institution, and shall be
banishei from its. precincts. Truly that
must be miserable cause which cannot
bear the light of investigation, which can
not stand criticism, in which there is not
sufficient inherent character and enough
obvious merit to stand proof
against criticism and even more SO
against the attacks of malice from out
siders smarting under previous discipline
rs these have been termed.
But to recur to what VIC conceive the
absurd, ridiculous rules SO recently ell
forced and even yet in vogue. 1t is given
as sort of attempt ut an excuse for the
Of the rules relating to the
sexes that people passing to and fro would
get bad opinion Of the school.
Why think Of it! In the first place, peo-
pie passing this school are not quite so
green, so ignorant Of the common laws of
life, rs to think it strange or disreputable
to see lady talking to a gentleman. In
fact many of those persons have seen such