{"id":59,"date":"2010-06-26T00:45:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T00:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2010-08-07T21:18:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T01:18:34","slug":"dickinson-president-jesse-peck-a-practical-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/2010\/06\/26\/dickinson-president-jesse-peck-a-practical-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickinson College President Jesse Peck &#8211; &#8220;A Practical Joke&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6373\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2446\" title=\"Jesse Truesdell Peck\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/06\/HD_peckJT2c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> When <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/9094\" target=\"_blank\">Dickinson College<\/a> President <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6373\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Peck<\/a> arrived in Staunton, Virginia, for a conference in the spring of 1849, local authorities detained him as a result of a prank by Dickinson students. As the Richmond (VA) <em>Examiner<\/em> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u201csome reprobate student\u2026wrote a letter to the Physician of the Hospital [in Staunton], giving him a description of some individual who had left Carlisle, the seat of Dickinson College, in a state of mental derangement; and stating, furthermore, that it was more than probable that the said individual had betaken himself to Staunton, inasmuch as it was a sort of monomania with him to regard himself as the President of [Dickinson College],\u2026. It is needles to add, that the description of the insane person coincided precisely with the appearance of the Rev. Doctor himself &#8211; and that it required the reiterated identifications of the ministers of the Conference around, to save him from confinement!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5456\" target=\"_blank\">Moncure Conway<\/a> (Dickinson College Class of 1849), who later became a southern abolitionist, admitted that he was one of the student leaders involved with the prank. You can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/772\" target=\"_blank\">full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Dickinson College President Jesse Peck arrived in Staunton, Virginia, for a conference in the spring of 1849, local authorities detained him as a result of a prank by Dickinson students. As the Richmond (VA) Examiner reported: \u201csome reprobate student\u2026wrote a letter to the Physician of the Hospital [in Staunton], giving him a description of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","tag-carlisle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/cwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}