Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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bulldoze the faculty; the words of our oft repeated song seem well adapted to point out the remaining ones of our class — Pome have gone to lale and Harvard, Some to Princeton and Cornell. But to our history. When last year we found ourselves Sophomores, we felt it a duty devolving upon us to initiate the Freshmen into the mysteries of college life, not in the semi-bar- barous manner shown by ' 80 the previous year, but with true respect to their feelings and dignity. As homeless and friend- less waifs we cared for them; when they cried for mamma and would not be comforted, we gave them milk; in the words of the Scriptures, ' ' Homeless I found ye and I took ye in, naked, and I clothed ye. In the annual game; of foot ball between the Sophomores and Freshmen we were worsted by ' 82, but amply made up for that defeat by taking every cane in the rush at the athletic sports. In November, 1878, we took the usual visits of inspection with the professor of chemistry, and, be it said, generally came back to Bethlehem sober — a thing never before known in sopho- moric annals. In December, 1878, the annual Epitome was published by our class, and far surpassed all former issues, the editors striv- ing to make it more of a literary publication than in former years, and less of a mere compilation of facts. In athletics we covered ourselves with glory, carrying off over half the prizes at the Spring meeting. The class supper at the Eagle was the last thing of note during the sophomore year. The following morning found one poor fellow on the porch of the Eagle singing The Lord de- livered Daniel, why can ' t He deliver me ? Another one in the arms of Morpheus on Monocacy bridge; a third, the most di- lapidated of them all, was found in front of the Doctor ' s house on the campus; and yet Charlie insists that he did not order strengthened claret. We must not forget to mention that our noble Pat, the orator, managed to capture the Wilbur Scholarship, having scored the highest average mark ever made in Lehigh. 20

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HISTORY OF ' EIGHTY-ONE. • ' His signal deeds and powers high Demand no pompous eulogy. Ye saw his deeds I Why should their praise in verse be sung? The name that dwells on every tongue No minstrel needs. S Juniors we stand before the gaze of an admiring world with even more laurels than our sophomoric escutcheon bore. Two years are gone and we are starting from the turning stake toward the goal. Happy years they were, and as w r e look back over the pages of the past and recall to our minds the pleasing reminiscenses of those by-gone days, we wonder if the future will be as pleasant. As year after year rolls by, new faces greet us and old familiar ones are bidding us adieu. Among those missed, are many of our own class : out of the original twenty-six but fourteen are left to grope their way through the mysteries of science and literature. And the rest, you ask, where are they? But as we neither possess the power of ubiquity nor are highly endowed with prophetic ability, we will not attempt so difficult a query. Suffice it to say, Jimmie has turned granger and is raising wheat on the distant prairies of Iowa; Jenkin, being of a practical turn of mind, is digging dusty diamonds in the mines of Scranton; Phil, not to be put down by insubordination, has retired from his old haunts of Bethlehem, and now graces the freshman class of Princeton, where[he has renewed his old game of trying to 19

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But past are those scenes, and hand in hand we struggle on the home stretch ; and it is to be hoped that none of us will fall by the wayside, and that ' 81 will graduate the largest class that has, as yet, left the halls of our University. Historian. 21