Oh, Eleazar 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.
Fill the bowl up! Fill the bowl up!
Drink to Eleazar,
And his primitive Alcazar,
Where he mixed drinks for the heathen in the goodness of his soul.
The big chief that met him was the sachem of the Wah-hoo-wahs;
If he was not a big chief, there was never one you saw who was;
He had tobacco by the cord, ten squaws, and more to come,
But he never yet had tasted of New England rum.
Fill the bowl up! Fill the bowl up!
Eleazar and the big chief harangued and gesticulated;
They founded Dartmouth College, and the big chief matriculated.
Eleazar was the faculty, and the whole curriculum
Was five hundred gallons of New England rum.
Fill the Bowl up! Fill the bowl up!
Notes
This was a mock Song written for Dartmouth College. Dartmouth College didn't care too much for the 'humor' and the negativity that seemed to come with it. Yet, the students of Dartmouth College sang it in tribute of Hovey for writing it, for years after.
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This wonderful song was a victim of the political correctness that swept the Dartmouth campus in the 1980s and 1990s. The Glee Club is forbidden to sing it, and it is no longer heard in legitimate song. Sadly, it will probably die out, with (it is to be hoped) the PC Police who killed it.
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Dartmouth students cared for the humor and didn't mind the negativity when the song was written in 1894; they mind it now.
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