Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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■HcJHP0 ¥veE: ' S43N- F the saying Happy is that people whose annals are uninteres ting holds true with respect to classes, then ' 84 is blessed above all others. For, however varied and interesting may have been the vear to its individual members, it remains a fact that the class as an organization has pursued the even tenor of its way with scarcely a ripple of excitement upon the dead level of recitations, lectures and practise through which it has passed. On returning from the small pox vaca- tion, in which the students — not the small-pox— did the vacating, the class was, metaphorically, dragged by the hair of its head through integral calculus ; and then, without any review, it was de- creed that we should be examined in differential calculus, which had been in- dustriously forgotten during the eight weeks ' stay at home. By this arrange- ment the examination in integral, which was fresh in our minds— fresh with an exceeding great freshness, so that no freshman on earth could freshen it — was put over until the next term, so that, during the summer vacation it might have time to assume a similarly rusty condition. Under these circumstances but one alternative was left us: to flunk ; and flunk we did as one man. The Faculty, recognizing our importance as a factor in the internal economy of the University, granted us another examination, a little one all by ourselves, on the first of July. Of the seven who remained to make the attempt four liked it so well they determined to try it again, and so there has been a gentle sprinkling of examinations and re-examinations in calculus throughout this term, averaging one a week, and resulting in the formation within the class of a graded aristocracy of flunking— flunkers of the first, second and even third degree, with a common herd who basely passed the first e xamination. In the face of these facts who will say that the small-pox epidemic was not a blessing to ' 84 ? But we had almost forgotten the class supper. What would a class history be without an account of the class supper, with happy allusions to the festive board, etc.? The class supper was a success. We assert that dogmatically, recklessly, because in the course of our long and valuable life we never yet heard of a class supper which was not a success. Of the supper proper, i. c, the solid, edible portion of it, we can only say that it was good of its kind, but 20