Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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Under our moUo-ljanner of Forliter, Fidcliter, Feliciter, there lias been one uoticeaMe feature in Seventy-Seven, that is the perfectly unanimous feelinix they sustain in their intercourse with one another. Man} ' were the scra))es, ' ' ' ' flunks and cuts shared by all. Many were the times that we answered as with one voice, not prepared, es]iecially in Logic, that lidc iwir of all frcshies, (and farther on, what piece of misfortune or fun falls to the lot of one, without the rest take it up as their own.) During the latter portion of the fresh year, one morning, an unfortunate stampede coming out of recitation of Logic held in the chapel, was the cause of our number being reduced considerably by the decision of the Faculty. At the end of the iirst term of the soph, year, it was impressed painfully upon the minds of the most of us by the rcmaikable iiiinus quantities, which were dealt out by the unsparing hand of our instructor in Chemistry — For ways that arc dark, ' Ac. The close of the sophomore year was signalizeil l)y a lianriuet held at the Sun Hotel. Bethlehem. We will pass lirietly over the fore part of our life as juniors. with merely mentioning that when it was decided to start a boating association in College, 77 did her duty well, contrili- xiting more in jproporlion to her numbers than any other class. Her crew went into immediate training in good earnest, and had the boat-club received the assistance from outsiders which it needed and deserved, it would not have been obliged to give it up for want of support, pecuniarily ; at any rate, there is no doubt in the mind of any one that the 77 crew would have ranked ahead of all others in College, and will yet, if boating comes (Uice more in the ascendancy before the time arrives for us to depart. We will now approach the subject which interests most deepl} ' every man of 77, as it is decidedly the most prononce affair which has ever occurred at Lehigh. During the latter portion of junior year, the subject of a mock programme for the ensuing University Day was under discussion by the Class. The matter receiving the sanction of the President, was immediately jjut into the hands of a committee, who received from the Class full power to do and act ; then it was decided to 11

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BlaU ' of Seveivti ' Seven. (N the last 3 ' ear of our Collfge life, as the time is rapidly drawing near for us to lay aside the student ' s gown, and make ourselves ready to enter upon the sterner duties of the life opening widely before us, we can scarcely realize that so much has taken place, as we look back upon the three year ' s since first we came together here, a class of about forty fellows from different partsof theland, someeven from countries foreign to our own ; as we think of the many changes wliich have oc- curred, of the classmates who are now separated from us, and of the jolly crowd which met for the first time in the room of St. Cloud, in Packer Hall, when the following officers were elected : W. E. French, President; E. P. Rogers, Vice President; Leary, Secretary, and A. P. Hamet, Treasurer. None of whom will graduate, unfortunately, as they have all left College. No more can we sport around in our quondam freshman manner, which it would ill become a most noble senior to do. And now about one-third of the original forty are left, but those who are still labor earnestly tor that goal of College men — a sheep-skin. 10

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depart from the route pursued by the preceding classes, and instead of a senseless, silly caricature of the programme of the day, and. witless puns on the Faculty, ttc, to issue a well-written, illustrated burlesque, to be indicative oji the more prominent characteristics of the college functionaries in general, but more particularly of the graduating class. It was produced on Com- mencement Day, to the decided non-approval of some who were mentioned in it, but with the unfeigned approbation of those who were not. My work is completed ; I have been enabled to give but a synopsis of the history of our class, for to have entered more into details would have been impossible and probably not de- sired by more than the immediate members. Inclosing, I may say, I think, without being charged with undue favoritism, that never has a c.ass entered these walls and showed better work in each and every department than ours; in the Engineering sec- tion, ' 77 ranks as hers the finest draughtsman that the University has ever produced, and in all of the schools, men who, when they leave, in whatever feature of life they may enter, will be compeers of the greatest. Historian.