Dickinson College - Microcosm Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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1804, July 17. Charlie Nisbet has worked hard on that College. He is sixty-seven years old now. Guess I'll call him to his long home to-morrow. 1805, Sept. 15. To-clay I attended the dedication 'exercises of that 11ew building of Dickinson College. It is a large affair of stone. with walls about two feet thick. It is part of 1ny work to 1'61ll0V6 all such things by gradual decay, but it 'looks as if it would take a long time to do so in this case. . ISOS, Sept. 7. I made an innovation at Dickinson College to-day. I put i11 a Sophomore class. Heretofore there have been but three classes. It's risky business, for S0pl101llOl'ES are always making trouble, but then they will help to make things lively. N D' i l., icX,l g Sis X 1833, June 30. That college has not been do- Yl -'Y 3' ' -x- 5 253, E Sw?-:f I ing so well lately 3 I almost forgot about it, if li g'i --'TQLQQ W, QU! fi until I found a few days ago that the Meth- 'Q :li It oflistsliave gogtep coiptrpl of it. They have N ti ,F RI ii gi 2 e ectec one 'o tien ns iops, John Emory, X- ,gf'Zfj..f y 3 hy i President of the new Board. I feel pretty Q Agiggj . L: gf' 'gl ji 1 safe about the thing now. Those Metho- wifi' ,gig 1il' Z, dists usually carry out whatever they un- fg. fi. if bil i dertake, and do it with a whoop, too. 'il it ,l ll T?7- - f l, fi. 1835, Aug. 14. Dickinson has added more SE. ' H -is il xj '- ground to its campus, and is about to put if ' N' ,ff g up anotl1er building. It will probably be if 235-. V CQ, ,il 3 called South College? -Legg.- 1 ,i ii -- 1 1836, Oct. 5. Another building is going up at . 'j rl E- ,i ix . ' that Carlisle school. It lays to the east of Ei f-g f.. 1 it ,M ' .1 the 01-ig-inal building. The style of archi- - A ' W if A 'Z' L I -. g,A53f5j-J Vg W fa, tecture is about like a lot of boxes piled up IS77, ii -gg East College Style of Architecture. in rows, with only enough room for a ladder between the rows. It is a pity they didn't get the Government architect to plan the job, as they did with XVest College. Oct. 7. The old Methodist Chapel at Carlisle has been bought by the College. They are going to use it as a Prep. School. 23

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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

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1884 1884, 1889 1896 IQOI Nov. 1 1. It keeps me busy chalking up new buildings for that Dickinson College. Jake Tome gave them a lot of money some time ago, to put up a new one for scientific purposes. They are going to put his nan1e over the door of it. july 7. Co-eds are to be received at Dickinson. I'1l bet you this is going to make trouble around there. I intend to bri11g it about in the course of years, that this 'thing will be common 5 but now it is new and like many new things it is raising a hul-a-ba-loof' ' Aug. 18. I had George Reed elected President of Dickinson. I am interested in that place and I believe this young man, wl1o has stirred things up so in Brooklyn, will be just the one to put the college on a good basis? 1 Dec. 13. I examined that Denny Memorial building to-day. It's a great thing. Those two literary socie-- ties which I have kept a-going for more than a hundred years are each to have a fine hall on thethird Hoorf' Sept. 12. Dickinson opened up for the year to-day. I went around there and saw the new Prep. school, which is just being finished inside. I knew that man Reed would be the right one to set the thing running, when I sent l1i1n there were only six buildings in the institution and now there are a dozen, mighty good ones, too, some of 'en1. Il 1 a 1 5- .f -1' 5' r' .-.1 if '4'fF- - ' Nix , 8 fl. X I ,J 12? - - -D .-7? 24