Lebanon Valley College - Quittapahilla Yearbook (Annville, PA)

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Challenging opportunities to better the welfare of mankind in science, industry, economics, and political and social relations face the world today. As before, barriers of greed, ignorance, and prejudice loom between man and the realization of these opportunities, keeping them ever on a distant horizon. Lebanon Valley College and its students are contributing toward final achievement of this goal: taking these opportunities from the ever beckoning horizon down into every roadstead of the world THE 1951 of LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE, Annvillc, Pennsylvania

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Rickety, Rackety! Rhe! Rah! Rah! Kasaki, Kasaki! Zim! Zu! Zah! Rickety, Rackety! Zip! Zah! Zun! ZuRah! ZuRah! 1901! 1901 — the beginning of the Twentieth Century. 1951 — the mid-point of the Twentieth Century. Wedged into the corner of one of the private shelves for old QUITTIES in the Library are a half dozen nondescript thin volumes with the printed banner, THE BIZARRE. One of them, with an orange and black cover and yellowed pages that have not been scanned by students for decades, tells the story of life on the Lebanon Valley College campus in 1900 — it is THE 1901 BIZARRE, third of the series bearing its name and forerunner of the modern QUITTA- PAHILLA. Traditionally published by the Junior Class, THE 1901 BIZARRE was the first in which individual pictures and writeups of Junior Class members were used. Lebanon Valley in 1901 is described like this in a college ad in THE BIZARRE: Courses — Classical, Scientific, Music, Art, Elocution; Advantages — Thoroughness, Cheapness, Completeness, Four Commodious Buildings; Standing — Among the best. The classes were small: 23 in the Senior Class, 1 7 in the Junior Class, 20 in the Sophomore Class, and 25 in the Freshman Class. A faculty of 23 worked in the four commodious buildings, teaching students in the three year courses offered. In 1901, Clio was in its 28th year and boasted 24 members; Kalo, 23 years old, had 36 loyal sons; and the even then respectably aged Philo (33), ruled the campus with a total mem- bership of 54 and published the College Forum, campus newspaper. Wearing prison- striped jerseys and stockings, the mustachioed Football Association presented a rogues ' gallery picture and a record of four wins and five defeats. Student cartoons filled several pages and were devoted to subjects as An Occasional Scene in the Dining Hall, A Two Base Hit , Looking for her Mascot, Picking a Lilly, and A Race for Life. Another section of the book discussed membership in these clubs: The Ante Portum Society, which talked about topics on Loveine, Courtology, Spoonethology, Jolly- ism, Matrimonialism, and Scrapism; the Anti-Whisker Society; the Inebriate Association; the Euchre Club, the Married Men ' s Club, and the College Avenue Gastronomic Association. From the literary section of the 1901 BIZARRE, we quote from a poem by E. M. Balsbaugh, The Dying Century : When such vent to our grief has been given, Then we may bid a final farewell. And mid the twilights of future years, Devout mothers to children will tell Of the Nineteenth Century ' s Death; tears Will show their sorrow, but oft they ' ll do Braver deeds than their sires, and wonder If the old were better than the new. Fifty years have seen L. V. grow in every respect so proudly hailed as among the best in 1901. Fifty years have seen two major world wars of untold savageness, which have left unsolved problems facing the world with uncomfortable nearness in the second half of the century. Fifty years have seen greed, ignorance, and prejudice rule man and his world. Fifty ■ ears of tremendous industrial improvement and scientific achievement now place into man ' s hinds weapons of disintegra ' ion. The role of liberal arts colleges, to correlate living with science, has consequently been magnified. We propose to picture life in this typical liberal arts college, in relation to this problem, by . . . PRESENTING

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F 4S 44Va • ' - ' .. ' % « 51 L ■♦. ' QUITTAPAHILLA May, 1950 A Junior Class Publication