Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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-i Dedigajpion. - THIS EPITOME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, ALUMNI, FACULTY AND STUDENTS OF LEHIGH UNIYERSITY, AND TO ANYONE ELSE WHO PURCHASES A COPY AT THE REASONABLE RATE OF TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.

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Biographies of the Epitome Editors. By Gagh Ojithei . Mr. Davis. — This prodigy of editorial wit is said to have shone tirst upon Bethlehem at a period previous to the memory of man. In speak- ing of that long-forgotten age, he says, When I was a Freshman. It is. rumored that, even before that era of the world ' s history, he taught the gallant youths of Swarthmore to run, and play tennis. He is at present engaged in organizing glee clubs, and in getting as little work as possible into ten hours a week. Owing to his strict adherence to everything English in the way of dress and manner, he is consulted as an authority upon such points. In college he is taking what is known as the Davis Special Course, which consists principally of English Literature, as a critic of which he soon intends to rival Macaulay. All students taking this course are on all occasions obliged to wear knickerbockers, an ulster and a Tam- o ' -Shanter, and to smoke a straight briar-wood pipe. He is remarkable for the sweetness and flexibility of his voice, which may be heard at any hour of the twenty-four in I never drink behind the bar, by a simple tension of the cord. He devotes his spare moments to writing very, very funny gags on the students and faculty for travelling theatrical troupes, which are inveigled into stopping at Bethlehem. As Chairman of the Epitome Com- mittee, he is certainly ornamental, if not useful. Chas. E. Clapp. — This somewhat corpulent piece of humanity was born somewhere in the Western Reserve, and sometime within the last quarter century. Concerning his boyhood we know very little, except that he early manifested a liking for the sciences, on one occasion having disinterred the remains of a deceased pet dog for the purpose of setting up