Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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u Ci c ux r¥ 11 -p if HE CLASS OF 75 is among the things that were, and yet 7 two of its members, as Resident Licentiates, still haunt these classic shades. I most humbly beg the pardon of the University — I should have said scientific shades; for arc we not at a modern scientific Dotheboy ' s Hall, where ingenious youths arc boarded, bedded, cleaned and crammed with the isms of the age in addition to the daily dose of obnoxious treacle which is forced down their throats, whether it comes in the appalling shape of Freshman Logic, springing upon theirawe- stricken spirits some fearfully illicit process of Major; as Sopho- more Descriptive ' ' with its bewildering maze of points of sighl , revolving planes and auxiliary lines : as the jovial and seductive tetartohedral forms of the Hexagonal System stealing the hearts of the captivated Juniors : or as the mirth-provoking and jaw- breaking phalanx that pounces from Wohler upon the unsus- pecting organic chemist. But in allowing my mind to fondly recur to these bygone joys. I have been carried away from my subject: Tin: Origin, Doings and Renown of 75. 14

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According to Darwin (if it is not in Darwin it should lie.) or as the Latin primer. has it, Antiquissimus temperibiis 75 in mundo venit. This is ail I have- hoard in regard to the genesis of this species which later writers named 75. Since then it has conducted itself with honor. Not having time to trace its lescent through the bygone ages, 1 will begin at the time it entered Lehigh University. From the day of its entrance ' 75 showed that it fully merited the motto which now benignly looks down upon the Freshmen from the banner on the Chapel wall. ft was indeed Crux Professorum, and yet it is a cross of which the Dii majores minoresque of the Faculty meeting may be proud. What pluck it showed in determining not to be extinguished by the vigorous weeding yearly applied l»y the powers that he. I may name in particular the unblushing con- fidence in the right and fervent determination to get through, that impelled the pugnacious Z to return at the beginning of each year, with his hack lessons made up, after having heen dismissed at the commencement of the previous one. lie was our only comet, and during the first part of his college life, the eccentricity of his orbit was so great that his stay with us during each revolution was of brief duration, and Ins brilliant light was soon hidden under the extinguisher of the Faculty. Yet no one graduates with more honor than he. No more will Meaker correct the exuberant Lathrop with the time-worn bed slat; it now reposes in peace; dust has settled on its rounded outline. No more will the streets of this sleepy burgh resound to the gentle voice of Mac. No more will the grin of II he seen on the esplanade, showing too plainly his idea of Dulce est furere amicis. As we go about these familiar haunts, we sing to ourselves — Lochabar do inure. Maybe to return Lochabar no more, while the echo gives hack the mournful strain, no more. I saw along, gaunt man the other day whose head was al- ready beginning to show the polishing effect of Time ' s rapid 15