The Audrey and Theodor Geisel School Naming Rephrasal
There once was a school
Midst New Hampshire’s tall spruces,
Where cows were the teachers
(but the accountants were gooses).
One day all the gooses
Came and honked to a cow,
“The money’s run out!”
“We need funding right now!”
“We need money somehow!”
Honked the gooses that day,
“We need money, right now,
And brook no delay!”
The cows rumined hard
On this worrisome claim,
And chewed and debated
On who was to blame.
But blame is not fruitful,
And the cows were perplexed;
So they met to consider
What options were next.
All day the cows thought;
All night, did the same;
But could think of none aught
Than to sell the school’s name.
Now this school was for study
Of bodily juices,
And nostrums, and things
Of diagnostical uses;
And the surgical specialties,
major and minor;
And therapal strategies,
Coarser and finer.
So the cows thought of names
From this noble profession,
But those names were all boring!
They lacked good impression!
"Don’t need a lame name!"
Honked the countable gooses,
"Want a name with some fame,
That really produces!"
"No Johnsons or Rileys
Or Martins or Luces!"
"Get a name with some kick!
For instance, the Seusses!"
The cows pondered long
What the gooses had said;
It seemed silly at first,
But it rang in their head.
At last in the end
They all thought the same:
The money was good,
And so was the name.
No honking, or mooing,
Or painful excuses!
They would just claim the name
Of the doctorly Seusses!
"Hooray for the name!"
Shouted all who had heard,
And even the gooses
Put in a good word.
And that's now why they call it,
From Durham to Portsmouth,
The A & T Geisel
School of Medicine, Dartmouth.


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