Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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BlaU O ' f Seimiiy-J ifm. UR freshman year with its cares and trials has rapidly glided away, and we are drawing towards the close of our first term as sophomores ; though it seems but as yester day that the class had assembled together for the first time in Packer Hall. But to begin at the beginning of our career. The class entered the University in September, 75, with an aggregate of forty members. We .were received in a friendly spirit by both seniors and juniors, while we could pick out the sophs bv the battery of cheap wit and stale jokes with which we were greeted by the majority, although they discontinued their amusement when they saw that we were not affected by it, and confined themselves to the practice of confiscating canes, when- ever they appeared, from the freshies. It took us but a comparatively short time to become acquainted with each other, and, with few exceptions, a still shorter time to flunk in Chauvenet ; but having a definite object always in view we kept pushing steadily onward and upward with but little to break the monotony of events until the Christmas holidays were over, and we had again assem- bled — Jan. 12th — for a fresh start. A few fomiliar faces were

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C CLASS OF SKTENTY-MNE. D CLASS COLOK, MAROON. OFFICERS. JOSEPH U. PADDiiCK, H. R. LlNDERMAN.-lit , -lOtlX T, JETKl!. Pv.M.Tl ' CKKR, .). S. C ' UXNINfil ' AM Pkesidknt Vice Prksidknt. Secrbtary. Treasurkr. Historian. Alexanacr Bell, (5. L Hagcrstown, Mil.. • •2 Saucon Hall .Ills. S. Cunninglmm. C. E. , ll( nto vn. Allentown. Murriiy Morris Duiicaii E. M. Washington, D. C , Brodhcad Ave. Wm. S. Duncan, E. M Wu.shington, D. C. Brodhead Ave. . nstin Farrcll, .VI E Pleasant Mills, N. J , Market Street. .1. lie Figuorido fioioni -. E. .« Brazil, Birch Street. L. .M. llalsey, A. C. Swedosboro, 18 Saucon Hall Iliirry Y. Ilorii, A. C Catttsauqun, 9 Saucon Hall. .)olin T. Jeter, M. E. South Bethlehem. Delaware Ave. H. U. Lindcrman. Jr.. Special. AVashington, D. C, Anthracite Bdg Jos. H. Paddoek. .VI. E. Philadelphia, 10 Saucon Hall Tlieo. Palmer, C. E. Newark, N. J.. 23 Saucon Hall Edgar Pevsert. Special. Bethlehem, Main Street. Fitzwil ' iam Sargent. C. E. Philadelphia, 30 Saucon Hall Chas. W. Schmick, A. C. South Bethlehem. Seneca Street. Harry Seamiin, A C. Bethlehem, Market Street. Richard Tucker, C. E. Wiscasfet, Me., 29 Saucon Hall B. R. Van Kirk, C. E. Bethlehem, Church Street. N. Byron Wliitman. A. C. Li.nark. Pa., Market Street.

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missed, Init the iiuijority of IIr- class returned safe and sound, ready to continue the work so well begun ; and we soon learned the art of taking notes on Chemistry lectures. In the course of a few months most of the class managed, by a grand crannning process, to learn enough about the Binomial Theorem, Probabilities, Sine, Cosine, Projections of a Brick, itc, to pass examination : and thus the veil of darkness which hung before our mental vision like a cloud was gradually being pierced, until with a few more efforts it would be swept away and we would appear before the eyes of the world bearing the high-sounding cognomen of sophomores. The next event of importance this term was the burial of Logic. She received her first burial at the hands of ' 7( , but, like Hamlet ' s ghost, she would not down; ' ' so not to be outdone by our worthy predecessors, we determined to give her a solemn burial on the evening of her death, . ccording to previous custom. Logic was.cremated, her ashes tenderly and tearfully placed in a handsome rosewood c;isket, and the funeral procession started. Preceded by a dirge-playing band and fol- lowed by the white-rolicd mourners, it passed through the prin- cipal streets of tlie town, to the University campus, where the aslu ' .s were consigned to the grave, with all due ceremony, and an oration ])ronoinue(l over the remains by the President of the class. Having thus disposed of Logic to our satisfaction, we proceed- ed to the 8un, accompanied by the lively airs of the band, ;md after disposing of our ghostly robes, proceeded to do full justice to the class banquet which awaited us. Throwing aside all formality we determined to have a jolly time. Amidst the clicking of glasses, toasts and speeches, we celebrated our first class supper, after which those so inclined tripped the light fantastic, keeping time to the music produced by the light- fingered H d. Towards dawn we separated, found our way home with n little difliculty, while Logic or rather the manner in which it was disposed of — will always be remembered by the class as one of their most successful undertakings. After separation of two months or more, our class, which numbered at parting about thirty, met again to resume study.