“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
-Dr Seuss
Theodor Geisel aka Dr Seuss, 1925 at Dartmouth College
A tree falls the way it leans
During prohibition the young Theodor Seuss Geisel was going to college, attending the prestigious Dartmouth. While there he enjoyed writing for the college paper, The Jack-O-Lantern…
Being a college age male, partying was on the mind. Smack in the middle of prohibition this could be a risky en devour. The entirety of his college career could complicate this mission, which it did in 1925…
Incidental Music for a New Year’s Eve Party – Dr Seuss
“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.”
– Dr Seuss
He decided to throw bootleg speakeasy parties, charging at the door he able to fund the next party with maybe a little to line the pockets. His senior year, 1925, he was finally caught by campus security…
Dartmouth decided to allowed him to stay in collage but took all his extra-curricular activities away, including writing in the college paper…
This didn’t sit well with the aspiring writer, so the Pirate pen name Seuss was born…
First “Seuss” illustration (1925) in Dartmouth’s The Jack-O-Lantern paper by Theodor Geisel
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
– Dr Seuss
Not willing to give up his passion, Geisel continued to write and draw illustrations under his new assumed pirate name “Seuss”, his actual middle name…
He continued writing for the paper under the nose of the college until he graduated the same year. After college he liked the new pen name so well, he continued using it adding the Dr for flare value.
“Be careful which way you lean”
-Dr. Seuss
Indistinct Cat with Cigar – Dr Seuss