Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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40600 EDITORSX- F. P. SPAULDING. F. C. WOOTTEN. WM. H. BRADBURY.

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SALUTATORY. ANOTHER year has passed awny, and the Epitome for the third time greets its friends. It has bee n a year long to be remembered by all connected with the University ; replete with life and energy ; and filled to overflowing with scrapes and fun ; and as we glance back upon its many changes, we wonder that so much could occur in so short a time. We think of the friends and acquaintances of a year ago— many of them gone and almost forgotten — and we feel the impress of college associations most deeply left upon us, and that we are more firmly bound by the ties of class and individual friendship. To render a history of all that has occurred would take much more time and space than we can give it; but we shall attempt, as well as we can, to set forth in some degree our true college life, that those unconnected with it may obtain some idea of it, and those who were actors in the drama may, as they look over these pages, find something therein which it will be both pleasant and profitable for them to remember. The new library building is rapidly approaching completion, and promises to be a very fine structure. It will be, when completed, an honor to the University, and a new monument to the repeated generosities of the giver. The interest in base ball is at present at rather a low ebb, and the record for the year hardly does credit to the expectations of a year ago. This is owing partly, probably, to the leaving, during the year, of a number of those who took an interest in it at that time, but very largely to the lack of good and easily accessible grounds, which is one