New college tour highlights slavery's shadow Follow Us Question of the Day By CHARLES THOMPSON and PennLive.com - Associated Press - Saturday, April 17, 2021 CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) - Dickinson College has long been proud of its Colonial-era history, one framed forever by its standing as the first college to be chartered west of the Susquehanna River, launched to ensure the expanding frontiers of the new American nation would have access to future leaders educated to the highest standards of the day. But what about the people who - at the time of the college’s founding and literally for decades thereafter - didn’t fit within the frames of that picture?