I suppose one dare not sing it in this day & age, but --

Oh, Eleazer Wheelock was a very pious man;

He went into the wilderness to teach the Indian,

With a "Gradus ad Parnassum," a Bible, and a drum,

And five hundred gallons of New England rum.

...

Eleazer and the big chief harangued and gesticulated;

They founded Dartmouth College and the big chief matriculated.

Eleazer was the faculty, and the whole curriculum

Was five hundred gallons of New England rum.

(From _The New Song Fest_, which got Dartmouth's permission.)

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

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