Dickinson College - Microcosm Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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College which can now point to an honorable and useful career of over five score years. The College was founded, but where was the man of culture, learning and executive ability who would be willing to head a little college in the backwoods of Pennsylvania? Where but in Scotland? Dr. Johnson has defined oats as a grain used to feed horses in England, and men in Scotland. Some one has retorted to this definition, Look at the fine horses that England raises and the fine men Scotland raises. Dr. Chas. Nisbet, the first president of Dick- iuson, was a sturdy specimen of an oat fed -Scotchrnan. He was a metaphysician 5 a logician 3 a mathematician, and such a great latin scholar that if he were living to-day, he could decipher the latin on his own tombstone. Poor old man, he thought he had fallen on evil days when he had reached Carlisle and had looked the situation over, but resigning himself to the task, with the aid of his small, but able DC Y M 0fi l Builfling- faculty, he at that early day made Dickinson a college whose name was honored and respected. The present site was secured. West College was built, and when it burned to the ground, the dear Old West that we know and love arose from the ashes. ' T One little incident in President Nisbet's life shows his peculiar fitness for the responsible position of college president. While preaching in Montrose, Scotland, he said something which offended the town council so seriously that they got up and left the room in a body, but this did not trouble old Nisbet the least bit. He quoted the peculiarly applicable text, The wicked flee when no man pursuethf' and proceeded with his sermon. We have no doubt, that, if he could step forth from his picture in Chapel Hall, he would be perfectly able to orate on the burning shame of such damnable and reprehensible conduct perpetrated by a pack of infernal fools and consummate scoundrelsf' About the only thing that we know about student life in those days is that the poor duffers spent most of their time studying the ancient languages and mathematics. They could not help it. The society for prevention of cruelty to animals had not yet been founded. Also remember, gentle reader, when you think of these poor students, that the firm of Hinds 8: Noble was not in existence then. After President Nisbet died, the College had many ups and downs in its life, mostly downs, until finally, in 1832, the doors were closed. Then Dickinson became a Methodist college and entered upon a period of ever- 15