Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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N. P. R. R.,we did our work well; and in Mine Surveying, L acquired an ease and grace in riding the rake that will be of infinite service to him in future years. We were never known to be without an excuse for ab- sence, and the historian in looking over the mass of excuse papers filed away in the dusty archives of the University, has found that for diversity of malady, and rapidity of attack on the slightest provocation, 75 stands unequaled in the college world. How often has neuralgia, nervous or sick headaches and cholera morbus ( under different disguises ) marked us for their own. It has been to the historian a subject of wonder and con- gratulation, that this band of frail, disease-shattered bodies, man- aged to drag itself through four years, marked by such direful epidemics, and graduate a set of able-bodied men. You must pardon me if I have been needlessly prolix. This is the last time 75 will appear in print in this most renowned periodical, and it is hard to say good-bye. Yet we trust Tho ' we have left forev ' r this joyous scene, Our worthy deeds will keep our inem ' ry green. 17

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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

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£lh ' 76. Jo EADER ! Doff your hat ! whilst in imagination you arc pr - i sented to one of the finest classes it ever becomes the prov- ince of the Historian to chronicle. We bring to your mind ' s eye a dignified body, and shall endeavor to the best of our ability to treat it in a dignified manner. The Class as a body might be desig- nated as a heavy corporation, and as regards appearances — but hold : Our modesty will not permit us to go further. However, think ! think of facial beauty in its grandest forms, then try to im- agine something still more beautiful, and you have the effect that would be produced on you by the combined physiognomy of the Class. As regards energy it is safe to affirm that the 76 is the most enterprising class that ever entered the portals of Lehigh, and that in the pursuance of study, of athletic sports, and all the exercises incident to college life, her men have excelled, that is as a class body. But to retrograde, the class entered in 1872 with an aggregate of 40. At the time of entering there was prob- ably nothing to distinguish them from ordinary Freshmen, un- less it was their good looks, and the absence of all hazing on account of their being rather a ' bad crowd to tackle. The first year passed swiftly by with nothing of importance to mark its flow until the last day, when the Class marked their Fresh- men epoch by a burial of Rhetoric, thus inaugurating the ens- 18