reigned on the campus and in the village. Students and citizens, abetted by a brass band and by all kinds of “noisemakers,” such as horns and tin pans, paraded up and down the streets all evening holding rallies and serenading all who had been active in the cause. The first “Colgate” yell, composed in anticipation of the occasion, rang in the air-
“Yell high, Yell great Rah, rah, Colgate!”
The next evening the students marched in triumph to the railroad depot to meet Joseph Mason, the local attorney who had represented the University before the Regents, and Professor Maynard who had accompanied him, and rejoicing alumni. Once again there was a town and gown parade lasting from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Then came a banquet attended by about 400 townspeople, faculty, students, and alumni in Tripp’s Opera House which lasted well into the next morning. A band, an orchestra, and the college Glee Club provided music, a Utica caterer the food, and 14 speakers enthusiastically hailed the “open door for untold progress”
and pledged loyalty to Colgate University.
As the Dodge period closed, the friends of Colgate University could congratulate themselves on what had been achieved. The endowment had more than tripled; campus landscaping had begun; four new buildings had been erected and each of the three divisions of the University was housed separately; the faculty had nearly doubled and several exceptionally fine teachers had served or were serving on it; and the curriculum had undergone various changes with the introduction of new courses and electives which brought the University in line with current advances in American higher education.
