Lafayette College - Melange Yearbook (Easton, PA)

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JOHN HENRY TXAACCIIACKEN, P1 I. D., LL. D Presidem

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im f-PF' THE MELFNNGE l92l A 915' A is 1 3 ' ... . 11.333 aa 1 1???lliifIM F 1858 Rev. Cv. Wilson McPhail elected President. 1864 july 7.6-Rev. William C. Cattell elected President. D 1865- 67 Jenks Memorial Hall, now the Biological Laboratory, built and the Scientific Depart- ment added to the college. Soldiers' monument erected. Theta Delta Chi fraternity established. Blair Hall built. 1867 Sigma Chi fraternity established. ISO8-'OQ Martien, Powell, and Newkirk Halls built. 1869 Phi Kappa Psi fraternity established. 1870 Baseball as a recognized college sport began. 1871- 71. McKeen Hall built. 1871- 73 Pardee Hall, the gift of Ario Pardee, erected. 1872 May 4-ln the Hrst intercollegiate baseball games played, Lafayette defeated Lehigh by the score of 34-16 at Easton and of 88-zo at South Bethlehem. 1872-'78 Study of the Christian Classics made a part of the curriculum. 1873 Phi Delta Theta fraternity established. I874- 75 East Hall built. V 1879 june 4-Pardee Hall destroyed by fire. 1880 May 26-First athletic contest held here. Nov. 30-Rebuilt Pardee Hall opened. 1881 Presidential chair endowed by the Hon. John I. Blair. 1881. First medals awarded for athletic victories. Nov. 7-First intercollegiate football game, Rutgers vs. Lafayette, played on the campus. 1883 Phi Gamma Delta fraternity established. May 25--B. W. Mclntosh won Lafayette's Hrst intercollegiate medal at Mott Haven. Tennis introduced as a college sport. blames Hall Mason Knox, D.D., LL.D., elected President. 1884 Oct. 15-Lafayette 56-Lehigh 0 fhrst football game between the two eollegesj. Gym- nasium built and physical culture department founded. 1885 Delta Upsilon fraternity, established. 1886 First winter gymnastic sports held. Lafayette won the football championship of Pennsylvania. 1889 Phi Beta Kappa, honorary fraternity, established. 1891 Rev. Ethelburt D. Warheld, D.D., LL.D., elected President. 1894 june-March Field opened. 1897 Dec. 18-Pardee Hall burned a second time. 1900 Sigma Nu fraternity established. May 1.0-Van Wiekle Memorial Library dedicated. Fayerweather and Knox Halls built. 1901 Brainerd Hall completed. Alpha Chi Rho fraternity, established. Cayley Hall built. 1904 Old Field House on March Field built. 1908 Friars Club established. 1909 Omega Delta Phi established. Central heating plant installed. 1910 New House on March Field built. 191 l-'IZ Wing of the Engineering Building built. 1914 Hon. William Kirkpatrick became acting President. 1915 Oct. zo-President MacCracken inaugurated. 1916 Colton Memorial Chapel dedicated. 1918 Tau giafupa Alpha, debating fraternity, organized. S. A. T. C. established and barracks L11 I . 1919 Reserve Ofhcers' Training Corps established. Non-Fraternity Association founded. Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity established. IQIQ Oct.z0-Founders Day. The campaign for the raising of the Million Dollar Endowment Fund launched. IQ?-O Oct. 19- Founders Day. The announcement of the completion of the Million Dollar Endowment Fund. Ground is broken for the new gymnasium. Nine

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titgfHtlEI'BlV n- Fill C 'r 3'?3f:Ir1g.m 1 - H.-M 'S. 'HW ..... V - --frm fa THE MELFXNGE l92I 'H' 1- ' 5-fi -4 3342 1 ' F' HH Ia 1' ' Y M I ng , :Ia HN , GA U, U Lafayette College A FOUNDED MAY 9, IS32 OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION JOHN HENRY MACCRACKEN, PH.D., LL.D. ..... President WILLIAM S. HALL, C,E., E.M., M.S. .... Clerk ofthe Faculty EDWARD HART, PI-l.D. . . Dean of the Pardee Scientijic Department, Curator of Cayley Hall, and Librarian ofthe Henry W. Oliver Library ALBERT K. HECKEL, PH.D. WILLIAM MACKAY SMITH, PH.D. REV. MAURICE A. FILSON, A.M. WILLIAM T. FOSTER, M.S. ALBERT MOORE LANE, PHB. DAVID IB. SKILLMAN, AB. . HARVEY C. UPDEOROVE, M.D. HAROLD ANSON BRUCE . EDITH M. OSTERSTOCK, AB. ASA L. SCHLABACH . . Eleven . . . Dean of the College . . Registrar . . . . Librarian . Curator of the Biological Museum Bursar and Superintendent of Grounds . . Assistant to the President . . . . Physician Director of Physical Training . Assistant to the Registrar . . . Cashier