Lafayette College - Melange Yearbook (Easton, PA)

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fQ,lj ' llQfV i' .i.',' 1.r'.lm,: i1Ii iilL iiZYi!ii!lYl '.'.1I'Ai'F4i.'umm m '.'n.'mmniT1ii'iiii2iFFm.' QFEMW 6 wg. Arm''Wig'fmwm A '-Yl1!.'.K!.'W.'M'EAM' ' issrmwanmm!a!.n'.mnsmmiii!!4!.?I'!1?iin!.?E?nxiifiiiiii llfli!A'!El!.'.W.l!1'lWi!.l Chronological History of Lafayette College 1824-Dec. 27-lNdCQtll1g held in White's Hotel, in the public square, for the purpose of founding Lafayette College. 1826-lX'I21I'Ch 9-Pennsylvania legislature granted a charter for Lafayette. May 15-Board of Trustees met for organization. James M. Porter elected President of the Board. 1831-NOXV. 26-Franklin Literary Society founded Cat Germantown Manual Labor Academyj. Brought to Lafayette in 1832 by the band of students who came here from Germantown. 1832--Feb. 6-Rev. George junkin, A.M., D.D., LL.D., elected President. of Lafayette College. May 9-With 43 students attending, College exercises began. At that time the site of the College was on the south bank ofthe Lehigh. Oct. 8-First Annual Report of the Board of Trustees received. Oct. 10-First term ended. 3 Other important events of this year, the exact date of which cannot be ascertained, were the founding of the College Library and of the Washington Literary Society. 18 33-9 acres of the present site of the College purchased. July 4-Corner stone of Old South, the central portion of the present edifice, laid. 1834-May 1-President with his faculty of 3 professors inaugurated in Old South. Although the exact date has not been learned, West College, now the Administration Building, was built for a Model School some time between 1830 and 1840. 1841-Aug. I8-REV. John W. Yeomans, D.D., inaugurated President of the College. 1844-Sept. 7-Dr. George Iunkin re-elected President. 1845-Alumni Association formed. 1848-Mar. 13-Rev. Charles W. Nassau, D.D., elected President. 18 50-Lafayette allied with the Presbyterian Synod of Pennsylvania. 1851-REV. D. V. McLean, D.D., elected President. 18 5 3-Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity established. 1857-Lafayette, the Hrst American College to recognize the claims of its own language and literature, introduced the English classics into its curriculum. 1 Zeta Psi fraternity established. 18 58-Rev. G. Wilson McPhail elected President. 1864-July 26-Rev. William C. Cattell elected President. 1865- 1866- 66-Scientiic Department added to the College. 67-Jenks Chemical Hall, now the Biological Laboratory, built. 1866-Soldiers monument erected. 1 1866-Theta Delta Chi fraternity established. 1866 -67-Blair Hall built. 1867-Sigma Chi fraternity established. 1868-69-Martien, Powell and Newkirk Halls built. 1869 1870 1871 -Phi Kappa Psi fraternity established. -Baseball as a recognized College sport began. -72-MCKCCH Hall built. ELEVEN