Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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well known, others will use classical and idiomatic English in connection with the University authorities, and everything in geneial on the slightest provocation, as we have so well known how to do. Perchance, as we wander through the old rooms in the vain hope that our crayon sketches may yet be found on the historic walls, some presumptuous follower in our footsteps may even have the temerity to yell Fresh at us, and we will relieve the painful sensation of change by rambling up the walk, and watching our old friends the workmen pretend to dig dirt, or break stones on the Campus. We will watch in vain to see them work ; in fact, we fail to recollect when they did. Our work, or rather that portion of it connected with our noble University, is nearly finished. It has been no mere boys ' play or surface gleaning; but hard, steady, persistent application, that has carried us through thus far. And when we pause and reflect that the knowledge acquired here is merely introductory, and designed to enable us the more readily and surely to take our place in the bustling army of competitors everywhere surrounding us, then, and not till then, do we realize that our work is but just begun ; that we are but mere scientific neophytes with the whole world open to us as our University, the tenure of mortal life as the term in which we may acquire a portion of her knowledge, and success and reputation awaiting us as the substantial and practical diploma. Farewell, Epitome readers from the Class of ' 79. Historian. 16

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Often, as we gather in Dick ' s den, do we discuss old times over a cup of chocolate ; relate the peculiarities of this or that individual, and wonder where the whirligig of time will place us. No more does the drowsy senior toss up a cent at 8:io A. M. : heads, breakfast; tails, chapel. The element of chance has been obliterated under the new dispensation, and breakfast is punished accordingly, at the expense of chapel. Our brilliant V. P. of lasi year is supposed to be diligently engaged perusing Blackstone in the City of Brotherly Love. To be absent while considered present, was his chief study here. Our junior member from Maryland was the last of Seventy-nine ' s shining lights to leave. He was witty, humorous in a certain sense, and pre-eminently loud. The quietness now reigning o ' er Saucon Hall at midnight continually and forcibly reminds us of his absence. He was slowly and surely sending us to an early grave with his diabolical fish-horn ; and so strong is the force of habit that Dick ties himself to Stoney every night in order that his wonderful psychological dreams may not be disturbed by visions of this nocturnal Gabriel. Speaking of psychology reminds us that the important conundrum as to whether each soul is an individual creation, or a traditionary heredicature, remains unsolved. Has the oyster got a soul? is a very important question, and may be classed with Where has little Johnny gone ? as creating the greatest diversity of opinion. Our lectures in November, given at the request of the Class, by Professor Coppee, on the Use and Abuse of the English Language, were highly instructive, and judging from the attendance must have been appreciated. There has been one noticeable feature in the Class of ' 79, of which we have always been proud, and that is our perfect unity of action, and the unanimous good feeling sustained in our intercourse with each other. Often in the future, when far away from Lehigh, our thoughts will wander back with loving remembrance and fond recollection to our happy, jovial student life ; and as the days glide into months, and the months pass into years, the feeling may become so strong that we will be compelled to return. New faces will have taken the place of those so IB

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' 8o. NEC SCIRE FAS EST OMNIA. C ass Colo)- : — Cardinal. OFFICERS. F. P. SPAULDING, L. B. TREHARN, I. BROOKE, THOMAS H. HARDCASTLE, W. H. BRADBURY, President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Historia7i C. D ANDREAS, Bath, Pa., . JOSEPH K. BACON, Elkton, Pa., J. W. BIGNEY, Maiden, Mass., H. C. BLACK, Williamsport, Pa., G. A. BOWEN, Chestnut Hill, Phila., E. H. BOYER, Sunbury, Pa., S. BRADBURY, Jr., Schuylkill Falls, Pa., W. H. BRADBURY, A. C, Schuylkill Falls, Pa., 23 Saucon Hall IRVIN BROOKE, C. E., Limerick Square, . . Birch Street ABRAM BRUNER, E. M., Philadelphia, . . New Street F. H. BRUNNER, Bethlehem, .M. R. CALVERT, Germantown, . E. B. CLARKE, Bloomsbury, Pa , . MURRAY M. DUNCAN, E. x L, Washin-lon, D. C, Brodluad Avenue AUSTIN GLICK, Catasauqua, J. C. H. O. GUIMARAES, San Paulo. Brazil, THOMAS H. HARDCASTLE, B.A., Easton, .Md., . Fountaiu Hill W. F. HILLIER Bethlehem, N. H. HOGG, Brownsville, Pa., JOHN HOLVERT, Chemung, N. Y.,