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An imagined new facade for Dartmouth's school of medicine (with apologies to Dr. Seuss).

At the college of Dartmouth, in the year '24 There lived a young humorist named Theodor. Though boozing was banned as a crime and a sin, Theo hosted a party with plenty of gin. But then in through the door without even a knock Burst the grinch who stole gin-mas: Dean Craven Laycock.

The dean started shouting. His face turned bright red. "Put down your tumbler and listen up, Ted! I'm kicking you out of those clubs that you're in. Your work won't be published at Dartmouth again!"

But Theodor just wouldn't take such abuse He published again with the nom de plume Seuss! Well, that name stuck. It's the one he would use For Green Eggs and Oobleck and Horton and Whos. Folks bought his books for their sons and their daughters And Seuss sent the cash back to his alma mater.

Spring turned to summer and summer to autumn (That whole gin episode was completely forgotten) 90 years passed. And then: a great honor For Dartmouth's most famous, least medical doctor They've renamed their medical school after him And his wife! "It's a tribute," says President Kim*.

But I have a question (and maybe it's strange): With this new name will the school itself change? Will students write poems and skip their exams Or learn to prescribe green eggs and green ham? If your dear father's heart has come to a stop Will your Dartmouth-trained doctor advise, "Hop on pop"?

Millions of Dr. Seuss fans are grateful for his cute pictures and great rhymes, but Dartmouth College is also grateful for his donations.

Dr. Seuss whose real name was Theodor Geisel (Dartmouth Class of 1925) liked to share his wealth with his alma mater, where he edited the humor magazine, the Jack-O-Lantern, until he was caught drinking gin.

In return, this week the New Hampshire college officially renamed its medical school "The Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine" in honor of the author and his second wife, a nurse, who is the 90-year-old curator of her late husband's works. (Dr. Seuss died in 1991.)

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