Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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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

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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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f,». «J!«li«»« ' t W»I DR. EMORY W. HUNT was President from 1919 to 1931 when Bucknell ' s athletic teams ranlied Ail- American and when the University held the 7Uli Anniversary Pageant. SOPH-FROSH Scrap, 192! — one of the good old Bucknell traditions BUCKNELL BEAUTIES— the Queen and her court at May Day, 1928. M fs this time several college fraternities had al- ready established themselves, and a chapter of Pi Beta Phi, the oldest national fraternity for women, had been founded on the Bucknell campus. Within ten years the number of sororities had increased to four, and new buildings were gradually being put up to accommodate the increasing number of students. Ci JT C C3 J 4 started off normally in 1914, but by spring the scarcity of farmhands had begun to draw students away. Finally in 1917 World War I burst upon America, and Bucknell ' s enrollment of 524 students dropped to 117. Fraternities were discontinued for the duration, and because of the high emotional feeling German was dropped from the col- lege curriculum. C JIJL C? Jl President Hunt ' s installation in the fall of 1919 came the beginning of a new era at Buck- nell. The rumbling of guns had scarcely died away on the western front when the boys started returning. It was not long before the Rah Rah college days of the roaring twenties were in full swing with girls shorn of their locks, boys fussing at the Sem doors, Theda Bara playing to campus audiences in the Lew- isburg Orpheum, and dinks and green buttons worn by the frosh. GtXp nPIIf IS continually, the University enrollment topped the thousand mark, and with the enlarging activities of the students came new organizations. Honorary fraternities were added to the list of scientific societies, sororities and fraternities grew in number and new campus publications were added. JlV U Jl came the crash! The end of the decade of expansion and reconstruction found many students with their dreams shattered. Under Presi- dent Homer P. Rainey, who remained in office from 1931 to 1935, came extensive changes in curriculum for the Bucknell students. In order to become Direc- tor of the American Youth Commission, President Rainey retired from office, and Dr. Arnaud C. Marts was elected acting President. In 193 8, having become President, Dr. Marts emphasized the friendliness on WOMEN ' S SENATE, 192!— need we sav more! COMMENCEMENT Exercises in the men ' s quad under President Hunt ' s . dministration.