Dickinson College - Microcosm Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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S One hundred and seventy-six years ago, on March 3, 1773, Thomas and John Penn, Proprietors of Pennsylvania, deeded to a group of nine trustees a. plot of ground in Carlisle for the purpose of keeping and maintaining a grammar school' The school was open in the same year under the principalship of Mr. james Ross, a distinguished author of Latin and Greek grammars. Mr. Ross is remembered today as one of the outstanding educators of our colonial period, and is revered as the nrst member of the faculty of Dickinson College. The grammar school, begun in 1773, continued operation until it was absorbed by the College in 1783. Meanwhile, on Bingham's Porch in Philadelphia, two men met in 1782 to formulate plans for a college to be located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. These two friends were John Montgomery, a Carlislean, and Benjamin Rush, a prominent Philadelphia physician. Theirs was a difficult job. They had to contend not only with the national economic and social turmoil which always follows a war, but also with the active prejudice against the founding of another college in the area. There were already two colleges nearby-one at Princeton, and one at Philadelphia. The influential leaders of that day who supported either of the two would naturally oppose the founding of a third in the same general vicinity. It was only through Rush's zeal and persistence that the plan for Dickin- son College ever was realized. IT WHS 1 be

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l1 TE TS v Hs il was . a backward glance over the 175 years of life of our college vllsilis.. a record of the present. A cross section of the student life at Dickinson odsilmaybe.. a look to the future. A plan for the Dickinson of tomorrow

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