Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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»., . IV ■ •• ■ ' ' ' ' ' ■ M ' ' ¥■ ' t ' : ' ' ■ MALE SHORTAGE EXISTED even in 1895 when the music professor was the only man on the faculty at the Female Institute. THE SCIENTIFIC AGE— B.S. students and their equipment in the I890 ' s. STIFF as figures in an old tintype — these brawny men and long skirted damsels pose in informal action shots. SECTION 24 of the U. S. A. A. S., Unit Bucknell University, 1917. .192 men of the Student ' s Army - i i ,

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KsmMifWKnKit K6(sts K Deff ' iS ' ' d:€ i. ' mn - i fr li i.! fW :i KSwapirsHww iit«i PART of the Bucknell unit which fought in a six-weeks campaign in the Civil War. All the male students enlisted in the fight for the Union. DON ' T FENCE ME IN may not have been written in 186S, bui it would have been appropriate for the girls in Larison Hall. » ly liberal as distinguished from professional, but Bucknell ' s peaceful growth was rudely shaken in 1863 when the rolling drums of General Lee ' s army were heard throughout the valleys of southern Pennsylvania. The male students enlisted as one body, to serve during the emergency, and the company com- posed of 77 men was honorably discharged after an active campaign of six weeks returning just in time for commence- ment exercises in July, 1863. C JL IFc tu v began to change rapidly after the war. A Great Opera House was built in Lewisburg where the Sunoco station now stands, but students could attend only if the faculty approved the plays. The new Baptist Church building was com- pleted, Lewisburg boasted gaslights, and the students of the University each gave two days labor towards the filling of the lower campus grounds and the completion of convenient walks. Jl, J 1879 when David Jayne Hill was inaugurated, the country and the school were in the midst of a revolution of thought, and both were enlarging their scope; both were grow- ing. The ten years of Dr. Hill ' s presidency saw students cru- sading for the first edition of the UNIVERSITY MIRROR, the establishment of a chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, and the opening DR. JUSTIN R. LOOMIS, President 18 7-1879, di- vided the college into four departments at the Univer- sity; English Academy, Classical Preparatory, Female Institute, and Male College. DR. DAVID JAYNE HILL, graduate to become President He served from 1879 to 1889. the first Bucknell of the University. BUCKNELL HALL, 188f , used for many years as Chapel and audi- torium. CROZER Theological Seminary, Upland, Pa., which took the place of the theological department at Bucknell in 1886. WILLIAM BUCKNELL in 1886 gave the largest single amount of money to the University up to this time, and was honored by the University in this year when it adopted his name. A

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SBrntaaaax Kmrsi. ' sinn ' m: ' of a railroad line from Philadelphia to Lew- isburg. Collegians took their last trip via packet boat up the Susquehanna, or by a forty mile stagecoach trip from Pottsville. C C- JLj JLs t % CI courses were opened to women in 1 8 S 3 , the same year stu- dents cheered at their first football game. The erection of new buildings continued, and the Female Institute became the Buck- nell Institute, although the strict visiting hours and the high board fence still segre- gated the coeds from the male students. If URX Kf € the year 1886 in commemoration of William Bucknell, the University at Lewisburg changed its name to Bucknell, the School of Music was estab- lished, and the first edition of L ' Agenda was published. College students followed a strict schedule of classes beginning at 7:30 A. M. with the clanging of a bell attached to the walls of Old Main, and ending at 5:30 P. M. Girls were wearing rustling dresses and talking excitedly of bustles and pompa- dours, while the boys were careful to have t he ne west in moustaches and high collars. iUXT iO Dr. Hill resigned in 1888, C. G. Graff took his place until 1889 when President Harris took office as the col- lege president. Frill and Frown and its male counterpart. Cap and Dagger, and a campus newspaper called the ORANGE AND THE BLUE originated under Dr. Harris ' admin- istration. However, competitive sports, just beginning to get their start, came to a stand- still when indignant students hearing that the battleship Maine had been destroyed, marched off to fight in the Spanish-Ameri- can War. S W Xf£- ' ' - ' TAKE ME OUT to the ball game — the natural gr.ind t.jnd on 1 . im, 1 ijl. CAP AND DAGGER ' S better half, ' Trill and Frown, in 1909. PAYNE, 09, On the Quad- rangle in undergrad days. DR. JOHN HOWARD HARRIS, President from 1889 to 1919, under whose administration Bucknell had one of its greatest eras of progress. Training Corps were housed in barracks located on the hill below the Botany Building. t t t » 0;i ' ' ' ' J