Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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C CLASS OF SEVENTY-EIGHT. £) FroHfc, niilln, ;, ■» CLASS COLOR. sa(jkgup:en. OFFICERS. CHAPvLES BULL, HARRY C. WILSON, ROBERT H. READ, WILLIAM S. HAZLETT, Pkksident. Vice Prksident. Secretaky and Tuea.xukkh. Historian. Luster J. Barr, C. E. Erie, Pa., I ' OSaiiecm Hall Charles Bull, -M E. Biitfaln, N. Y., V ' ine Street. W. G. Cochrane, .li.. Philadelphia, New Street. .lohn W. Eekert. A. C. Allenlnwn, Allentown. . ndrews F. Fries, C. E. Wesi Point, N. Y. 31 Saucon Hall .lames E. Gilhert, V. E. Wniehester, Va., ' 2(i Saucon Hall Willinm S. Hazleit, M E. Zanesville, ()., 14 Saucon Hall (}. W. D. Hope, A C. Bethlehem, .Main Street. Frank P. Howe. K. M. Readins, 13 Saucon Hall Frank 11. Jorilas. C. E. Brazil, Church Street. Nathaniel Lat ' on, M E. Le. ington, Ky., 24 Saucon Hall Howard K. Lyon, C. E. Sprinj Bekl, N. J., Fourth Street. Benj. B. Nostrand, C. E. Sands Point, N. Y. 21 Saucon Hall Wm. P. Palmer, A. C. Brooklyn, L. I., Vine Street. Milnor Paret, C. !•;. Villiam..port, Vine Street. 11. F. J. Porter, JI E. ilorristown, N. J., Wyandotte St. W. K. Randolph. c. E. Rcadin;:, Pa., New Street. Robt. H. Read, G L. Columbia, Pa., 8 Saucon Hall. Henry C. Wilson, C. E. Bethlehem, Market Street. Wm. S. Winlcrstein, A. C. Bethlehem, 13 Market Street.

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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.

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BlaU of c)ef euhfSi0it ' () the average College Aluimuis the remembrances of n sophomore year are the most pleasing and, at fhe same time the most painful. Pleasing, not to his conscience, but to his sense of enjoj ' ment of scrapes, jokes, ami a general good time. Painful, by reason of mingled recollections of opportunities neglected, time lost, and hopes destroyed. If we compare the four years of a man ' s college life, we find, that between the greenness of the freshmen, and the dignity of the junior, or the exaltation of the senior, the so|)homore comes at the time of change, the freshman worm being, as it were, metamorphosed into the nobler junior butterfly. During this time of change he lives in his own little world of joy and ease, thinking that Slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore Than labor in the deep raid ocean. But the Class of ' 78 fell not into such a snare. A more quiet, docile, exemplary, I will dare to add, religious sopho- more class, was never seen within the walls of any but a theo- logical school. 14