Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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we hope all generous friends of the ' Varsity will be content. For the benefit of those born kickers (to quote ai illustrious classmate) to whose lips that unfortunate weakness, lack of charity, is already forcing a torrent of criticism even at this, the very outset of the work, we will say that this book is the result of the efforts of the class alone, designs and cuts emanating from our class artist, without whose ready pencil we would have been lost indeed. We will also add that the Epitome loses its most interesting and affecting page in consequence of our inability to insert a full, verbatim report of the Editors ' numerous and much befogged meetings, with the discussions, the criticisms of articles (resulting in sundry fights), the squabblings over the sketches of our patient artist, and all the considerations and reconsiderations incident to the issue of our first and last Epitome. The heart of the most unfeeling critic would have been moved at the bewildered, discouraged, lost appearance of an Editor upon leaving a particularly unhappy confab resulting in blank nothing save the expenditure of a vast amount of patience and energy, or at the sight of a wild, oath-spreading, haggard and disgusted Busi- ness Editor, after an all day ' s struggle in New York or Philadelphia, with pub- lishing and engraving companies and advertisers, not to mention the many delays and minor vexations which the reader scarcely understands, but which serve to perplex aud discompose editors of our small experience. Would-be-critic, if this fetches you not, we will be compelled, in self- defense, to declare that your comments will have no effect upon us. If you compel us to be so, we are clad in an impervious armor of self-satisfaction. Supreme content with the resultof our labors must be our shield in such an event. Do not, however, force upon us an alternative so distasteful to our modesty. Permit us to believe that Epitome ' 85 could be improved upon, though we have done our best.

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711 M It is ten o ' clock : Thus may we see how the world wags. ' Tis but an hour ago since it was nine. And after an hour more ' twill be eleven ; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe. And then from hour to hour we rot and rot. And thereby hangs a tale. HE Tale is this : A year ago we were of all fresh things the freshest ; gourds in their greenest stage fail to convey an adequate conception of our ver- dancy. Then with us ' twas nine o ' clock — now ' tis ten ; and being somewhat ripened under the genial influence and instiuclions of ouresteemed Faculty, each one of whom, ' tis sad to say, labors as if the ripening process depended upon himself alone, and also being somewhat rooted and strengthened by such blasts of adversity (adversity has its uses) as were inevitable from our relations to the class preceding us, we are now dee-ne 1 worthy — may we prove so ! — to extend the hand of greeting to all friends of Lehigh, both within and without her walls. This we do through an Epitome which, it is our earnest hope, shall not prove inferior to its predecessors, nor by its faults offer ground for any disparagement of our beloved University, whose record for high endeavor as well as actual achievement may it never be our dishonor to tarnish. Fellow Students, whether the passing year proves profitable in the highest sense of the word, or whether there mingles much of base alloy with the grains of knowledge we here acquire, depends mainly upon ourselves. Our President, Faculty and Instructors are gentlemen of culture and sterling worth ; our University, by reason of its generous endowment, provides all facilities for obtaining a complete education ; in short, our privileges are un- surpassed. Still, we have somewhere heard that every day ' s experience shows how much more actively the work of instruction goes on out of school than in, and in this sense we are, indeed, the fashioners of the firm fabric of our lives ; it rests solely upon us either to ripe and ripe to a fuller maturity of character, or rot and rot into insignificant decay. But we are not writing a sermon, only a Salutatory to a brilliant-crammed- full-of-wit-humor-satire-and-everything-else-to-be-desired-Epitome, with which

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:-B0 D 0E + THag ' FEEj5.- The Right Rev. M. A. DeWolfe Howe. D.D., LL.D.. Bishop of Central Pennsylvania. President of the Board. Reading. The Right Rev. W. B. Ste vens, D.D., LL.D., Philadelphia. The Right Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, D.D., Pittsburgh. Hon. J. W. Mavnard Williamsport. Robert H. Sayre, Esq South Bethlehem. William H. Sayre, Esq South Bethlehem. Robert A. Packer, Esq. . G. B. LlNDERMAN, M.D.. John Fritz, Esq., . . Hon. Harry E. Packer, H. S. Goodwin, Esq., Hon. Eckley B. Coxe, Charles Brodhead, Esq., Elisha P. Wilbur, Esq., Harry Ingersoll, Esq., . George W. Childs, Esq., The Rev. Leighton Coleman. S.T.D. Franklin B. Gowen, LL.D., W. L. CONVNGHAM, ESQ., ' Charles O. Skeer, Es(j., James I. Blakslee, Esm., Michael Schall, Esq.. The Rev. Marcus A. Tolman, Hon. Robert Klotz, Hon. Henry Green, Charles Hartshorne, Esn., Sayre. South Bethlehem. Bethlehem. Mauch Chunk. South Bethlehem. Drifton. Bethlehem. South Bethlehem. Philadelphia. Philadelphia. Toledo, Ohio. Philadelphia. Wilkes Barre. Mauch Chunk. Mauch Chunk. York. Mauch Chunk. Mauch Chunk. Easton. Philadelphia.