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Envisioning the proposed institution as a center of the spread of Christian teachings and higher education to the expanding West, Rush transformed opponents to the trustees and skeptics to believers. Therefore, on September 9, 1783, three days after the signing of the peace treaty ending the American Revolution, there was enacted in the General As- sembly of Pennsylvania a charter for Dickinson College. The first difhculty had been surmounted. but the real struggle had scarcely begun. The ensuing years were filled with the petitioning for endowments, searching for administrative and faculty members, and innumerable obstacles which had to be overcome. Rush himself wrote, I have experienced degrees of anxiety I never felt before. Colleges like children, I find, are not borne without labor pains. But all will end well. Our brat will repay us hereafter for all the trouble it has given us. Misfortune followed in the footsteps of the new college. In 1803, five weeks after the completion of the first college building, a fire accidentally started which burned it to the ground. Rush again was the driving force behind the building of Old West. He wrote to his friend Montgomery, Go to the Legislature for funds. Strike while the iron is hot, or similarly, while the ruins were still smoldering. BECURDS llld East 1837 Nishet Pathway v
HS WE When Jeremiah Atwater became Prin- cipal in 1809, the officers of the College were at sword's points with each other. The students were lawless as the whirlwind. Principal Atwater saw that conditions were bad and set himself to the task of their cure,', but to no avail. Because of dif- ficulty with the faculty, and the seeming hopelessness of financial conditions, the College was closed in 1816. The townspeople of Carlisle, seeing both the commercial and cultural advantages to be derived from a college in their town, set about reopening Dickinson in 1821. They were earnest and it has been said that the faculty they secured was small but could scarcely have been more perfectf' Class oi 1906 Gateway
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