Dickinson College - Microcosm Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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An Interesting Letter -3 ,Sl .8 .X 66 N. NVALNUT ST., EAST ORANGE, N. J., March 8, 1902. DEAR BROTHER! Your kind letter of February 27th was sent to me here. V I am in poor health, and not able to write much. 1 send you some few words which you can use as you think best. I love dear old Dickinson and would be glad to visit her again. My best wishes to you and all connected with you in your work. Yours affectionately, - Tnos. BOWMAN. at 5 8 .Al THE FOLLOWING SKETCH ACCOMPANIED THE ABOVE LETTER. In my bovhood days living near Berwick, Pa., we had very poor public shools. I had to walk nearly three miles to alla a-teacher that could instruct me in English grammar. When fourteen years of age I was sent to an Academy at XVilbraham, Mass. There I found things in a very fine condition and I began to prepare for college. At the end of the year, I returned home, and my parents having learned of a good school nearer our residence, I was sent to the Seminary at Cazenovia, N. Y. There I spent three very pleasant and profitable years. In 1835 when I left the Seminary I expected to go to the Wesleyan University in Connecticut. But my father, having learned that the Baltimore and Philadelphia Conferences of our church, had recently taken possession of the old Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., which had been transferred to them by another denomination, and feeling that we ought to be loyal to our church, decided that I should go there and graduate. I cheerfully consented and in 183 5 went to Carlisle and entered the junior Class. I found Carlislea nice country town, located in a be autiful val- ley, and occupied by a fine class of people. The College had been two years at work. It had but one building on its 27