Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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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

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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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Si tofy of Clk$ ' 77- luj HAT is asked for? What is expected ? A history of our HPT Class. How shall we begin ? It would be incomplete un- less we began at the beginning. Some of us came into this little world of ours as Preps., others as Freshmen, while a few dared to join us as Sophomores. Who can forget the day upon which we became a College class? Who can forget with what throbbing hearts and silent tread we entered chapel on Monday, Sept. 1, 1873, with what awe we listened to the reading of the many Rules, and our good res- olutions to obey them? None of us can. As Freshmen, we numbered forty-lour. Our course during the year was a very jolly one, our members showing a strong propensity for returning home We were well treated by the higher classes, and now go hand in hand with our respected Seniors. Being Freshmen, we tried hard to learn college manners and college airs, and succeeded in the end in assuming that pecu- liar look so characteristic of college boys. But here must we pause, as it becomes our sad duty to record the death of our brother Freshman, John Jay Childs, of Erie, Pa., who was removed from our midst while in the full vigor of health. Never can we forget the solemnity and sorrow we experienced at the first death among the famous 44, but we work on wondering who will be the next to be gathered to Him who does all for the best. 2-2