About twelve o'clock
Let Yale and Harvard and Williams and Princeton and Dartmouth see who has the champion among scholars . Let there be a Waterloo in belles-lettres and rhetoric and mathematics and philosophy . Let us see whether the students of Doctors McCosh , or Porter , or Campbell , or Smith are most worthy to wear the belt . About twelve o'clock at noon let the literary flotilla start prow and prow , oar-lock and oar-lock . Let Helicon empty its waters to swell the river of knowledge on which they row . Right foot on right rib of the boat , and left foot on the left rib -- bend into it , my hearties , bend ! -- and our craft come out four lengths ahead .