Lafayette College - Melange Yearbook (Easton, PA)

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aff 'ftlicmg The current school year has brought to many ol us the realization oi iust what an institution such as Lafayette stands lor. As a seat oi education and a re- spector oi tree and independent thinlcing, it symholizes all that we hold to he our right and privilege as Americans. it is lrom colleges such as ours that tomorrow's leaders come. Very often we are inclined to talce lor granted the lahor and foresight which has brought Lalayette to its present position. The twenty-seventh oi December, 1824, saw a group ol Eastorfs citizens meet at Vvhiteis Hotel, where they decided to found a college named alter General Lalayette. in 1826. the college was established on the hanics ol the Lehigh River and in IS54, was moved lo its present site on the hill. There were years when the status ol: the college was very shalcy, particularly around the time ol the Civil War. However, Mr. Ario Pardees generosity lcept the rapidly growing school on its course. ln 1865 the college opened the Engineer- ing Department, in addition to the already existing Arts and Science schools. During the liirst World War, the campus was a veritahle armed camp as students and administration contrihuted unseltishly to the war effort. Since the World War, Lafayette has grown rapidly and has talcen her posi- tion as one oi the foremost colleges ol the state. The presence ol such scholars as Francis A. Nlarch and many others. has done much lor the growth ol prestige. Lafayette now is an institution to he envied and loolced up to. It has a heau- tilul hillside campus, overlooking the Delaware River and the thriving town ol Easton. On this campus are attractive lraternity houses, heautilul lawns. well- planned athletic systems, two libraries and an expanding dormitory system. The Class of 1943 will he the second war class to he graduated. Many ol its members have already left for service in the armed forces and the majority ol the others are enrolled in some reserve plan. The current year has not been an easy one. ln addition to scholastic hurdens, we have felt the touch ol war and have seen the peril that lurlcs around us. Despite the dillicult times in which we have had to go to school, the greater part of the students have maintained a level-headed attitude and have not heen guilty ol any hysteria. It is such cool and intelligent actions that may. eventually, help to lead our troops in the actual heat ot hattle. it is certain that every Lafayette man has the desire to do all he can to help main- tain our country's freedom and the freedom of lilaeral educational institutions such as ours. n 1i-111 111-1

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