Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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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

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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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footsteps. He was pointed out to me asa married man; J gazed on lineaments that seemed familiar, and when the genial torn - of our old class leader issued from his lips, I exclaimed, ' So changed — can this be Little Bill who bucked the hull off the bridge? It was too true. The P. R. R. had absorbed him. ' The man who could .whip his weight in wildcats started off to seek his fortune. And the story runs that he has been doing some tall leveling in the- North, so that the street Arabs of Wilkesbarre shout see me as he passes. P of ' Big South American Bonanza, is peddling soap- fat in Jersey City. During the Winter he will act as drummer for a soup-house in New York. Give him a call when you arc- there. The long and weedy S will not accept the position of Secretary of the Interior, should it be offered him, but will con- tinue to study for the Bar. The Seidersvillian is now on one of the P R. R. chain gangs. The Rapid Transit Man started for Lehigh fromhis home in Southern New York sunn- time in August, in order to be on time. Accurate calculations (carried to five places of decimals) based upon the celerity of his movements observed and tabu- lated while he was here, will bring him in our midst in time to eat the Christmas goose and sauer kraut in Christmas Hall. While here we felt that our work was not in vain — we al- ways allowed the Colossus of Rhodes his little five minutes, and then firmly and tearfully cut him. How often has th drawing-room, under the sunny smile of our agile instructor, become the scene of countless side showe not in the programme — especially during the time we were initiated into the mysteri - of the Sphcrico-Plano-Concavo-Diabolical Wing Wall. How have we pored over Warren until our sleep has been invaded by direful beasts with epicycloidal teeth engaging most exactly with one another, hastening to our destruction. During our brief work at the Huckleberry Extension of the 16