Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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Much of the light shed upon what otherwise would have been the melancholy pages of our Epitome comes from his ready hand, throwing about enlightenment in very thunderbolts. His reputation as an artist came to us through many words, and of course we accepted the general judgment in appointing him as one of us. The letters L. U., ' 86, beautifully charcoaled upon the library steps, were all the circumstantial evidence we had of his genius. He now, for the first time, gives out to the world what his real worth is. We beg your indul- gence, gentle readers, as he has one nervous temper. When not engaged in putting his mind upon paper, board or wall, w ' e cannot say where he locates it. What is the import of that soft, sweet candor which plays about his beauteous face ? Is it the dreams of those Elysian fields where summers are eternal and Blicks no more revealed to the outer wall, or is it the absentmindedness caused by the turkey of which we learned he partook so heartily ? Dream on, fair brother ! It will not be long before the hard world will take its pin from out the lappel of its long coat, insert it in your humanity and tell you what you are. Dream, I say! Adieu, my Muse 1 He has not left this life, nor, until that departure takes place, can we presume to say what the great event of his being is, was or shall be.

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villain was about to strike him down, a posse of the Night Guard was met with, which put an end to further molestation, Mr. D. was subsequently informed that he had been pursued by Graham, who was playing soldier, (one of his many nursery amusements which still cling to him,) and that the supposed dagger was an innocent screw driver. Mr. W. p. T.wlor. — Written history is replete with exaggerations and biased opinions of past occurrences. To forsake these trodden paths of its writers, we availed ourselves of the aid to be received from the truthful contents of the family record. Whether Mr. Taylor ' s embrj ' onic years were engulfed in the usual trials and tribulations afflicting infancy or no, it is no difficult matter to ascertain. Passing on to his youth, it is seen that he seriously contemplated wearing the ministerial robes of the church at some indefinite period of the future. With this fixity of purpose in mind, he, by his general demeanor, grafted himself in the good opinion of his instruct- ors ; and advanced himself to the captaincy of the H.(owe ' s) D.(iocesan) S.(chool) company, as affording an excellent simile to the future leadership, in part, of the church militant. Later on, we see him at old Lehigh sowing wild oats. Here his epaulets won him the presidency of his class. From this position he drifted into the vice-presidency, committees, and finally became entangled in the meshes of the Epitome. As a scholar, he stands high in his class. In music — being numbered as one of the chapel choir, speaks for itself. In literature he surpasses him- self. His Skid, or the Tamaqua Coal-heaver is a book which can be safely placed in the hands of our son of the present day, without his hankering after patent hair-lifters and a stretch of prairie with a couple of hole-in-the-day ' s on it ; and with a safe feeling that he will seek nothing else than a cat-as-trophy. Personal appearance ? Our maidenly modesty does not permit us. While enjoying the charms of Jersey country life, the over-heard remark : O. Mautha, here ' s a d-i-ude ! explains all. E Pluribus Unum. — jreSsUr. Mr. Luckenbach, Class-Artist. — The noise with which Mr. Lucken- bach entered this world — for so he entered it — has well been kept up, even ' til now ; yet the most striking characteristic thus far displayed is a knack for drawing very funny pictures. As a Prep., he put Hogarth to shame; as a Freshman, Angelo ; and, finally, as a Soph., hisj fellow- classmates. There seems to be a diversity of opinion concerning the hero of this escapade. As each of these histories were handed in without reference to the other, we will have to leave the point for future historians to settle. — Ed.

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BOAr D OP ©P USTBBS. The Right Rev. M. A. DeWolfe Howe, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Central Pennsylvania, President of the Board, Reading. Hon. J. W. Maynard, ..... Williamsport. Robert H. Sayre, Esq., .... South Bethlehem. William H. Sayre, Esq., .... South Bethlehem. James I. Blakeslee, Esq., .... Mauch Chunk. G. B. LiNDERMAN, M.D., .... South Bethlehem. John Fritz, Esq., ..... Bethlehem. Harry E. Packer, Esq., .... Mauch Chunk. Hon. EcKLEY B. COXE, .... Drifton. Elisha p. Wilbur, Esq., .... South Bethlehem. f ONOI AP Y ©P USO EBS. The Right Rev. W. B. Stevens, D.D., LL.D. Philadelphia. The Right Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, D.D., . Pittsburgh. H. S. Goodwin, Esq., ..... South Bethlehem. Charles Brodhead, Esq., .... Bethlehem. Harry Ingersoll, Esq., .... Philadelphia. George W. Childs, Esq., .... Philadelphia. The Rev. Lehighton Coleman, S.T.D., . . Toledo, Ohio. Franklin B. Gowen, Esq., .... Philadelphia. W. L. Conyngham, Esq., .... Wilkes-Barre. Charles O. Skeer, Esq., .... Mauch Chunk. Michael Schall, Esq., .... York. The Rev. Marcus A. Tolman, . . . Mauch Chunk. Hon. Robert Klotz, .... Mauch Chunk. Hon. Henry Green, .... Easton. Charles Hartshorne, Esq., . . . Philadelphia.