Dickinson College - Microcosm Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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4 , , Dickinson One Hnndred Years Ago

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of the ship he is to navigate ! The rest ofthe Faculty is all included in Jim Ross who is going to teach Latin. alld Greek. I think I can make short work of this school. I785, July 31. Charlie has arrived from Scotland and is at work in Carlisle. ' 1787, Sept. 17. To-day tl1at fellow Dickinson, : g , 1 X and the others with l1in1, finished up that X v ig job of writing a Constitution of the United - A PR States. . ', It -1 as 1795, Apr. 4. The college fellows are trying ' , to buy up the old Hessian barracks in Car- : N g Tv lisle, for a site for the colleges I a1n going f ,I -64, to shut them oiffl ,, I .. ,Lev112111111H111,'1',:m1 ,gr jf' 1798, June 10. Think I've been hard on W if, ly those fellows. They have kept up for four- I S ii 'A teen years and have got pluck. Guess I'll , , , ..-f give them a better place for their establish- ' 1 1 . 1 1l11.i.li111lll2111 Y I NMI. ,, 'I I BllN'l'i'l li1l 1'?. f . T lll'f Tl ,V 1 . g 1798, Dec. 2. Now they are fixed. I 111duced 1 I Y , , l Ib' those Penn people to sell a whole block of ' -' ' I 'ii lil' . if ground to the college for only a hundred and 1 fifty dollars. Guess I'll give them another ,Q 7' lift and help them put up a building. , , , 1803, Jan. 30. Those men are doing more Charlie Amvmg from Scotland than I wanted them to dog the building they are putting up is too good for them. I have changed 111y lllllld 3 I think they had better be stoppedfl Q 1803, February 3. I have cleared OH' that block of land. The whole thing went up in smoke to-day. I guess the whole stunt will be calledloii' now. Sorry, but couldn't help it. 1803, Dec. 31. Wl1e11 I made n1y lasttrip for the year through the United States to-day, I found the whole coun- try up in arms about that f1re. Jefferson allfl some more of 'em subscribed a lot of money for a new building. I don't lill0VV but that ,I was hard onerthat concern. They did pretty well. There are only eleven other older colleges in the whole cou11try. Guess I'll change n1y mind and let l1er live. 22