Dickinson College - Microcosm Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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' I q l 8 6 ,,'1ta-.aa I D a f 1 77 1 2 1 at 12 f'5.1 ' NHS-V Y: 1 1V ggi? I '-'Ll , . ' J ' ' ' E S E THE ROMANCE OF DICKINSON COLLEGE-Continued Q The ideal place ! they cried, reading the letter, E For our Paiitisocracynaught could be better! g So ho, for this new institution of knowledge- : America, Carlisle, and Dickinson College! E But Coleridge and Southy their way could not see g To pack up their kits and sail over the sea, I Yet a wise man called Nisbet, who lived in Montrose, E Was offered a job, so he packs up and goes. g He ran Dickinson well till West College was fired, E Then he built it again, and quite calmly expired. : The college went on until war came again, Demanding the service of Dickinson men. 2 The whole Senior class shouldered guns and left school, E And five chaps were fired because of a duel. -1 When the war was over, the boys came -back, 2 A new prexy named Atwater in the first hack, I A tyrant he was, as with T-arquin at Rome, : A Brutus arose, he went kitin' back home. E Then came John McKnight, for a year and a day,- E He was fired because he cut Y. M. C. A. g John Mason attempted to fill MCKIllgllt,S shoes, 2 But while he was here the Trustees raised the deuce. E He was once seen to wink at a member 's wife, : And then left Carlisle on the pain of his life. S For thirteen years thc Trustees held the floor E i And showed more than one man the way to the door. g Then the Methodists came, and they stopped the disturbin' S For head of the school they chose Johnny P. Durbin. E Things went along fine and with smooth regularity g Till the Civil War came and dispelled solidarity. I Some went to enlist with the Boys in the Blue, E Some went back to Dixie and fought well there, too, g Some got through the war looking worse for the wear, 2 But very few ever returned to Bellaire. E Docky Reed took the helm when we lay on the shoals E And steered the ship safely to long looked-for goals. I He established the Law School, library and all, E And worked Andy Carnegie to build Conway Hall. g But we all will admit that l1is master-work was I The admittance of co-eds to study with us. E Now Jim Henry Morgan is running the game, Ig l ' And we stand at the very pinochle of fame. , 2 ,So here 's to old Dickinson-long may she live! E p Wealth, honor, and all that the rolling years give I Shall be hers, for her name will be known wide and far E When the class of '18 shows the world who they are. E - E Qi l 4 A'lllll'lillQU'lfl'flTVll lil l .l 22

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v The Romance of Dickinson .ue 'ln seventeen hundred and eighty-three 'l'he Yanks drove the British back over the sea: And all of the English, from peasant to crown, Realized they could not keep America down. So a treaty was nlade in the town ot Paree Which wound up like this: Let the Yanks go seot. But now they were free, some dispute did arise fret College l,' On the place Pennsylvanians could send out their bye To learn how to read and to write and to spell, For the value of knowledge they understood Well. John Dickinson said: lt's a fact tas you knowl, That to set up a college you must have the dough, 'Whereas, just at present our debt runs quite high, On the state we can never expect to rely. So here ls Benny Rush and l, healthy and hale, Just grant us the college, we'll slap down the kaIe.', So the state legislature put through a decree That a, college in Cumberland County should be. They were led to this vote by the actions ol' Rush, Who just about that time was feeling quite flush. He thought U. of P. didn 't nieet with his pleasure, While the folks farther West were irate beyond ineasu l' was too tar to send their dear boys Cso they saidj, Besides, down in Philly they 're all underfed, S77 l'0 And the learning they get there-it ain lt worth a dime- They might as well stay on the farm all the time. Rush took their part in his pleasantest wayg He helped collect money, and offered to pay Quite a sum to assist them ill building the school, For he always stood pat on the Golden Rule. was put on its way, right up till to-day. abroad o'er the ocean, Thus Dickinson College And it's kept on a-going 'l'he news of this feat got And over in Oxford raised quite a commotion, Young Coleridge and Southey were studying' there And mapping out plans just like Uppy Sinclair. 'l'hrougl1 all resort folders they looked high and low, But none to their tastes did such literature show, When, low, and behold, one fine day comes the news That at Carlisle i11 Pennsy a college was loose. i'i l i. 21 V 'll

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