Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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' Prerstemus. - - ' 8| Ciass Colors : Purpie and Old Gold. A. P. Smith J. A. Jardine C. O. Haines . J. W. Kellogg H. B. Douglass W. B. FOOTE Oppigbi s. President. Vice- Pre side n t. Secretary. Treasurer. Historian. Chaplain. E. E. Brosius, R. G. Cooke, t e i- H. B. Douglass, a J. R. Englebert, W. B. FOOTE, C. O. Haines, X H. T. Harper, H. H. Hillegass, I E. F. Hofford, J. A. Jardine, a |) J. W. Kellogg, X 4 D. G. Kerr, F. B. Langston, W. Langston, . R. P. Linderman, a J. F. Merkle, . H. K. Myers, A. R. Nuncio. . J. W. Packard, A. S. Reeves, A t Barry Searle, L. B. Semple, $ e t A. P. Smith, 4 e M. Stewart, X i R. W. Walker, . J. A. Watson, t e t E.M. Fourth street Clas. Market street . E.M. Fountain Hill C.E. Third street . E.M. Fountain Hill M.E. Market street . . C.E. Saucon Hall e t C.E. Market street . . C.E. Saucon Hall E.M. Fountain Hill . . A.C. New street . E.M. Fourth street . C.E. Broad street . C.E. Broad street T A L.S. Fountain Hill C.E. Third street . C.E. Third street . M.E. Fourth street . M.E. Saucon Hall E.M. Fountain Hi ll . . A.C. Third street . Clas. Wyandotte street . M.E. Market street E.M. Fountain Hill . . C.E. Fourth street C.E. Market street . Lewistown, Pa. Bethlehem, Pa. Fort Cameron, Utah. Wiconisco, Pa. Rochester, N. Y. Savannah, Ga. Wiconisco, Pa. Reading, Pa. Lehighton, Pa. McCainsville, N. Y. Atchison, Kan. Wilkinsburgh, Pa. Bethlehem, Pa. Bethlehem, Pa. So. Bethlehem, Pa. Cressona, Pa. Tyrone, Pa. Saltillo, Mexico. Warren, O. Phoenixville, Pa. Montrose, Pa. So. Bethlehem, Pa. Norwich, Conn. Reading, Pa. Barnestone, Pa. Catonsville, Md. 17

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I ISTOr Y OP ' 8$. F there be any one who has the remotest idea that he can write an interesting class history, let him stand forth ! I fain would meet him. It would give me no end of pleasure to pat him on the back, to bor- row money from him and treat him like a king. For that man — if such there be — is a genius. He is a man who will one day command the respect of nations. Fair ones will long for him ; children cry for him ; and while he reforms the one he will teach the other, and the twentieth century will have her Plato. Granted, then, that Mr. Plato, of the future, is not in existence, or, if he is, he is still in bib and tucker, what, may I ask, is the poor historian to do who hasn ' t even a class supper to record? And it has been proved conclusively by my predecessor that a class history is naught without a glowing account of that gastronomic event. He cannot so far betray the confidence of his class as to manufacture facts out of whole cloth ; so he is compelled to stare an uneventful year in the face, until overcome by the greatness of his undertaking, he falls from the cliff of despair into the lake of idiocy, where, as Lord Byron expresses it, He first sunk to the bottom — like his works, But soon rose to the surface — like himself. The Class have kindly aided me to their utmost. Diaries have been placed at my disposal and assiduously studied ; but they all seem to be of the Got-up-washed-and-went-to-bed order. The only note of anything like a ripple of excitement I found in my own journal, which, by the way, will be published soon (posthumously, of course). It reads thus : — ' ' June 8th. — Went out surveying this afternoon. Played an excel- lent joke on the Prof. All the boys went into the brewery and spent the afternoon. I remained outside to watch the instruments. An excellent foundation for a romance of history, but that would carry me beyond the pale of my official duty. About that class supper. It is very strange indeed that ever since our Freshman year a grave and temperate look has come over the faces of A friend of the historian once had a father who became insane writing a history of the Smiih family in America. — Ed. 19