Lafayette College - Melange Yearbook (Easton, PA)

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- FOREWORD have herein endeavored to present our four brief years of life at Lafayette as they mls. lg have appeared to us. Perhaps we have -4453 been overzealous in our desire and pre- sented a picture of too lurid colors, but it is to be remembered that we are in the youth of life when its humorous events hold the greatest fascination. Whatever is contained in this volume of the MELANGE should, as a result, be regarded rather as an impression than an actuality. Therefore it is to be hoped that we will arouse no ill feeling by our work, for such has not been its purpose. May it always, on the other hand, serve as a memento of life on the hill, of our class- mates, and of the real spirit of Lafayette. ' -Editor-in-Chief.

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QIQQEE Chronological History of Lafayette-College 1824 187.6 1831 1832 1833 1834 I84I 1 844 1845 1848 1850 1851 lgsf 1857 Dec. 17-Meeting held in White's Hotel, in the public square, for the purpose of founding Lafayette College. March o-Pennsylvania Legislature granted a charter to Lafayette. May 15-Board of Trustees met for organization. james M. Porter elected President of the Board, Nov, zo-Franklin Literary Society founded at Germantown Manual Labor Academy. Brought to Lafayette in 1831. by the band of students who came here from Germantown. Feb, 6-Rev. George junkin, A.M., D.D., LL.D., elected President of Lafayette College. May o-With forty-three students attending, college exercises began. At that time the college was located on the south bank of the Lehigh. Oct. 8-First annual report of the Board of Trustees received. ' Oct. io-First term ended. Other important events, of uncertain date, were thc founding of the college library and of the Washington Literary Society. Nine acres of the present location were purchased. -July 4-Cornerstone of Old South , the central portion of the present edifice, laid. May 1-President, with his faculty of three professors, inaugurated in Old South . Although the exact date is unknown, West College, now the Administration Building, was built for a Model School some time between 1830 and 1840. August 18-Rev. john W. Yeomans, D.D., inaugurated President. August 18-Rev. George junkin re-elected President. Alumni Association formed. March 13--Rev. Charles W. Nassau, D.D., elected President. Lafayette allied with the Presbyterian Synod of Pennsylvania. Rev. D. V. McLean, DD., elected President. Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity established. Lafayette, the first American college to recognize the claims of its own language and iterature, introduced the English classics into its curriculum. Zeta Psi fraternity established. Eight