Dickinson College - Microcosm Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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Contents C O L L E G CAMPUS ADMINISTRATION C L A S S E SENIORS JUNIORS SOPHOMORES FRESHMEN 4 ACTIVITIE THE YEAR ATHLETICS CAMPUS ACTIVITIES ERATERNITIE SOCIAL HONORARY FEATURE BEAUTIES SATIRE Br

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H I S T O R Y Heritage HE Scotchflrish settled Cumberland County. The proprietors of the Colony, heirs of the great Penn, deliberately directed the flood of immigrants streaming through Philadelphia in the middle of the Eighteenth Century into separate sections of their empire, the sturdy Germans from the fertile ,Palatinate into York County, the hardy Scotchflrish from strifefridden Ulster into Cumberland County. These new settlers brought with them a love of their own iiresides less compelling only than their love of liberty and hatred of oppression. The Scotchflrish beyond the Susquehanna were soon politically independent of the older settlements. As Lancaster had been split from Chesf ter County in 1729, so was Cumberland County created out of a part of Lancaster in 1750. Their religion was a real factor in the lives of these immigrants and, although modified by the frontier, their stern Presbyterianism long remained a bulwark. Their meeting houses shortly dotted the County. Carlisle grew. The wilderness trading post of a French trapper surrendered to a frontier town of English colonists. A fort was erected. Franklin, laying the foundaf tion of his interfcolonial reputation, came to Carlisle in 17 53 as a commissioner of the Colony to negotiate a treaty with the Westeria Indians. During the French and Indian War troops rendezvoused at Fort Lowther in Carlisle. These same Scotchflrish settlers in 1773 founded a grammar school at Carlisle. Sponf -. I sored by such substantial citizens as john Arm' -V 5 'iii , I . strong, hero of Kittanning and county judge, iii ' fini 7 William Irvine and Samuel McCoskry, Carlisle 'C - 'fi' -vi' a- MQ physicians, James Vwfilson, brilliant lawyer, John A ppxz I . , gg., . 1 Montgomery, lawyer and justice, and Williani ' 'fi ':--'1'i: 'i -' 1: Blair, man of God, the school prospered. In nl , 1781 the trustees sought to enlarge its scope to flop ,js - that of an academy. This purpose was made in Ei' ii1g,fl 'i known to Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia. Rush contraposed the suggestion of a college at Carlisle. Benjamin Rush was more than the most outstanding physician of his day. Humanitarian, CUMBERLAND COUNTY COURTHOUSF he wrote on temperance, slaveiy, and penal ref 4' DESTROYED BY FIRE IN 1845 Fifteen 'f'v1--fr.. U, .fe 'ig 'H I.. ... ,. Tiff K' I , . . '73 ,ar - J 2'-1 55 ,gffwf 'f,.f.'. . Q. in- -f 1 ., ,I . .H .ea ...Y tx . ., . , 4 1 ,.., Miha i - ,f K ,.V. ., L. , ., f,pr w e ' v-T-S- . .-., Trish- r E'-3 IJ ,yt- -F, E in! N I fir7g,'q:,i viAA'?' - In su H- .Lg -3 r 4. Q 4:1 .1 fy L is .,. ,-V 'IN if j w... 1.-. .ly ,,,,..K , .iw L j u 3,-N-if p -7- ,fl T 2.-l 1 Y yr 'nf -,I - A V 3 ,:. P, 4 .- not - -.-I I , , ,., . ,-ei.v. V L , W .., nr, i- ' '21 - ' f . 1 K i a'.-'K .. 7 lrfi 'ef lj Xl 'xx ..r 5 f . 1 ' .,-V -- . j ,egg .. V V ,,.f 77 .1 my A a ss, fi, . . .. f-A-I sd ' l1 sTT't so- it .Q .f, Y- ,. p, ., .1 f ff- , ' 1, '-.:' .1 .' W r- 'J - . - 1 ,A U 1 ' '- sr-. - ' I ,....,,,-he . 'gr M K .A , Y ,- 1 V- n 4 r