Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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Class of ' Seventy-Eight. IT becomes the duty of your historian to record for the last time the deeds of the class of ' 78. But from what record is he to draw this history ? From what array of facts is he to take those that may prove interesting to the public at large, or even to the class ? If he could recount the love adventures of R , or the wonderful tale of D trying the power of the human eye upon the brute creation, and of how well he succeeded with the poodle and the calf, but when he undertook to tame the bull, the unscientific Ijeast, instead of being cowed and subdued, was enraged and chased him over the fence, then the reader might be pleased and interested. Or if he could but hint, in a mysterious manner, of certain deeds of valor or rescues of distressed maidens. Or if one could paint, in words of sombre hue, the pale student bending over his books far into the night, and rising with the first faint dawn to resume his work — then the gentle female heart might be filled with admiration and pity, and the alumnus, reading over his old class histories, would say, Ah, yes ! that was Jones, who knocked down the big policeman; or, Poor Smith I consumption carried him off; studied too hard. But there are none of these wonderful things to relate. We are not knights, seeking adventures, neither are we very studious o ' nights. In fact, we are only a moderately healthy, sturdy, lazy lot of men, who have managed to exist through nearly four years of a life almost as tame and humdrum as Mark Twain ' s Got up, washed, went to bed. But notwithstanding all the drudgery and monotony, I am sure we all love this quaint, slow old town, and like to see the dear, delight- ful, stupid Dutch, and hear their queer jargon of a language. And when we are gone, and our places know us no more, we will look back over our four years, and sigh, and wish we could live them over again. 11

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' 78. FRONTE, NULLA, FIDES. Class Color: — Sage Green. OFFICERS. FRANK P. HOWE, CHARLES BULL, H. F. J. PORTER, BENJ. B. NOSTRAND, WILLIAM S. HAZLETT, President Vice- Preside)! t Secretary Treasurer Historian CHARLES BULL, M.E., Buffalo, N. Y., Aiit iracite Buildim HERBERT DU PUY, A.C. (special), Philadelphia, . Fourth Street JOHN W. ECKERT, A.C. (special), Allentown, . . Allentown JAMES E. GILBERT, C.E., Winchester, Va., . . Foiirt t Street WILLIAM S. HAZLETT, M.E., Zanesville, O., . 14 Saucon Hall GEORGE W. D. HOPE, A.C. (special), Bethlehem, . Main Street FRANK P. HOWE, E.M., Reading, . . ig Saucon Hall NATHANIEL LAFON, Jr., M.E., Lexington, Ky., Fourth Street WM. P. PALMER, A.C, Brooklyn, L. I., . Anthracite Building BENJ. B. NOSTRAND, Jr., M.E., Sands Point, N. ¥., 20 Saucon Hall MILNOR P. PARET, C.E., Washington, D. C, Anthracite Building H. F. J. PORTER, M.E., Morristown, N. J., . Wyandotte Street WM. K. RANDOLPH, C.E., Evergreen, La Elm Street ROBERT H. READ, B.A., Columbia, . . . Broad Street HENRY C. WILSON, C.E., Bethlehem, . . Market Street WM. S. WINTERSTEIN, A.C. (special), Bethlehem, A arket Street LAWRENCE VAN WYCK, E.M., New York, . j Saucon Hall 10

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How we will miss P ' s broad, expressive smile, and the Boss, and all the rest of the old familiar faces ! And we will long to see the park and the buildings, and to hear the college bell, whose clear, mellow tone has so often risen through the trees and crept in at the window, and made one stop and listen, and wonder where he would be next year when that bell was ringing. Then, mayhap, the longing may become so strong that we will come back and stand on the steps after chapel, or go to the well-known rooms, but will see all new faces, and a stranger has the rooms. Then we will mournfully talk over the old times with Jim, and wander round the town and see the Freshmen parade under the Fern. Sem. windows, and think how we did the same thing, and what a hollow mockery we found it. Ah me, how these college years do fly ! It seems but yesterday we entered, some fifty=slrong ; and now, through various causes, — special dispensation of the Faculty has not been the least, — we have dwindled down to seventeen. We were nineteen at Junior ye.ar ; but Barr, our shining light, became a Granger ; and Byllesby is taking practical niechanics in Jersey. And these seventeen, the flower of the flock, have nearly finished, their apprenticeship, and will soon go out to fight their way in the world, and try to make a name for themselves, and, through themselves, for their Alma Mater. For she has been a kind mother to us, and has allowed us to flunk, and fizzle, and cram ourselves with her knowledge, with no recompense but the hope that, through us, credit may come to her. And so, Alma Mater, ... Wc part with thee As wretches, that are doubtful of hereafter, Part with tlieir lives, unwilling, loath and fearful. And trembling at futurity. Historian. .