Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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some very blue faces, and alas! that we have to record it, some very strong language used on the river bank that afternoon, which did not, however, better matters any ; but to cut a long story short, the whole thing terminated in a determination to cut at four. The hour having at last arrived, found the in- structor, Mr. A , together with the chainmen, concealed from the rest of the corps by an intervening bend of the river. The chainmen very shrewdly started hack to re-measure a line, and when out of Mr. A ' s sight, folded their chain, and silently departed with the rest of the party, who having gained the top of the bank took to practical engineering, and made tracks. Mr. A having by this time also gained the top of the bank sighted the fleeing party, and did his level best to stop them, but at that moment the party seemed strangely hard of hearing, and paid no attention to the calls and shouts which followed them. The party having reached the depot, drew all the heat out of two or three stoves, and were making themselves comfortable, when they were startled by the apparition of an exasperated instruc- tor, half frozen, breathless with rapid walking, and breathing terrible threats against the Junior Engineers. It is probably not necessary to state that as he came in one door the class waltzed out of the other, Grif. and Pete leading the van, while Evans ' big boots were clattering along in close proximity to their heels. Walt, had business with some one in the telegraph office, and Ed. had to hurry over the river to see his father. Kind reader, let us draw the curtain here ; but if you have ever been to college you can appreciate the situation of the corps, and the diplomacy, tact and squirming necessary to extract them- selves from the scrape. In this year, intelligence reached the class of the death of Harry Eastman, one of the old members, and at one time president of the class. He was at this period attending the Naval Academy, but left on sick leave and expired at his home in Washington, D. C, in the month of February. Harry was a good scholar and well beloved by his class. This is the only member that the class has lost by death. 20

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torn at Lehigh, it being its first observance here. Surely the grim old tiees must have lifted their green arms in wonder at the mys- terious rites going on under their protecting shelter, and the moaning night winds must have carried a strange tale that night as it swept on its hurrying course. 72 and ' 73! To-day a poor unnoticed worm. A metamorphosis, and to-morrow behold the emerging butterfly. The despised Freshmen have changed into wise Sophomores, and the Class nose reaches an elevation about two degrees higher than before. In this year the Class gave fur- ther token of their enterprise by starting a College paper known as the Lehigh Journal. ' It also held a burial of Logic which proved an immense success, for notwithstanding the dark and stormy night, the terraces were lined with people. This was the last burial held by the Class of 76; but the burial system thus inaugurated has been taken up by the other classes, and is now a recognized custom. The Class also tried to start an Athletic Association, comprising the Gymnasium, Boat Club and all athletic sports. The enterprise was started on a large scale, and the subscriptions amounted to some thousands; but very u nfortunately, and owing to no mismanagement on the part of the students, the project failed. Another year of college life gone and 7(3 ' ' are Juniors. In this capacity they started the idea of having a Semi-Annual ( ' lass Reunion, holding the first Class Supper at the Eagle Hotel on the 21st of December. Per- haps it would not be amiss to mention here an incident which occurred in this year as an example of the many interesting and often humorous adventures which occur at College. One cold, chilly afternoon in Fall, the Civil Engineers in the Class were engaged in making a hydrographical survey of the Lehigh River. They were at work from two till five o ' clock, and the disagreeable feelings brought on by the raw and uncomfortable weather, were not at all allayed by handling a chain coated with ice, or an accidental immersion of their lower extremities in the cold waters of the river. There was a great deal of shivering, l ' .t

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To close. The class is now in its Senior year, and stands on the world ' s threshold, and though as a class she will soon cease to exist, yet the memories which cluster around her will always he sacred to her members, and the tew happy days of the future will serve to recall the associations and pleasures of the four years at Lehigh. Though the Class History here ends, yet the history of its members is still to he traced, not with the pen, hut by the results achieved by them in the great future of their lives. Historian. 21