Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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: jnSTORYvOFvSo.- ' DP E may conceive of college life as a grand drama, enacted year after year by those who are wrestling with ignorance, intelli- gence being the prize. While there is great difference in detail, the salient feat- ures are always the same and serve as links which connect the annual dramas, showing that they are the same thing seen from dif- ferent standpoints and enacted by different persons. Thrice have the scenes shifted in their order before cur eyes, and we have advanced from silent spectators to the chief actors in the play. One by one the scenes which have become familiar during the past three years move before us for the last time Is it, then, any wonder that we take part in them with a will hitherto unknown and watch their departure with longing, wistful, per- haps tearful eyes? A few weeks ago we saw the last tussle on the campus that will grace the eyes of ' 83, and now the class is called upon to produce a record of its deeds for the last Epitome that will be published during its college life. Hv perusing the volumes which contain the history of past ages, we learn th ' atwar and discontent constitute the historian ' s most ordinary topics. Those who have manfully met us on the field of battle we have long since vanquished, and though discontent may for a season have reigned beneath the hard rules of the Faculty, the difficulty has always been settled in an amicable manner. The skirmishing of those who accuse us of clownish behavior when we promise ourselves a good time and day free from restraint at the Allentown Fair, or of those who, forgetting that the student is human, would deny him the pleasure of a cane-rush or an occasional bon fire, is not worthy of notice at this place. The struggles of individuals to acquire studious habits by overcoming more natural inclinations must ever remain a private matter, while much of great interest dare never pass beyond the class barriers. These considerations render the task of the historian somewhat difficult : yet so numerous is the material from which to compile, that the difficulty becomes one of selection. The second term of our junior year was characterized by no extraordinary event, save that a prolonged enforced vacation prevented us from displaying our muscle at the sports and our capacity for food and mirth at a class supper, while it obliged us to keep our minds on the stretch to accomplish the year ' s work, which, nevertheless, we did with credit to ourselves. And here ' 83 14