Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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Class of ' Seventy-Nine. ANOTHER year of our college life has passed away : half of our university career is finished : and we are now called upon to address ourselves to the readers of this worthy periodical in the character of Juniors. When last we appeared before the public we gloried in the title of Sophomores; now we have reached the point in our course which all Freshmen consider, next to Seniority, as the acme of mortal ambition, — though their opinion may change, perhaps, on arriving there. As this short sketch is intended briefly to review a few of the many events occurring during the year which witnessed this transforma- tion, we will, without further introduction, begin our history, referring those who would know more concerning us to preceding publications. Our laboratory experience during the first term, with its mirth- provoking scenes, will always be remembered by the class as — in the words of our class poet — something immense. Who does not re- member the orthodox prayer-meetings conducted by Doc, accom- panied by the music (?) of the orchestra, with our maniac dancing a hornpipe as a side show ; or the gentle voice of our instructor, as he endeavored to demonstrate to our corpulent friend from Jersey, that all noise is not music, and convinced S h and P r that they would confer a benefit on the community at large, by occasionally burying themselves under the hood ? Well we remember the look of astonishment and dismay depicted on H n ' s lamb-like physiognomy, on making the discovery that pure distilled HjO contained half a dozen elements. 14

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79 FIT VIA VI. Class Color; — Maroon. OFFICERS. M. H. PADDOCK, H. R. LINDERMAN, Jr., J. T. JETER, . R. H. TUCKER, Jr., J. S. CUNNINGHAM, . President Vice-President Secretary Treastirer Historian ALEXANDER BELL, B. A. (special), Hagerstown, Md., 24 Saucon Hall WILLIAM G. COCHRAN, C. E., Philadelphia, . New Street JAS. S. CUNNINGHAM, M. E., Alleniown, . . Allenioivn JOHN T. JETER, M. E., South Bethlehem, . Fountain Bill H.R.LINDERMAN,jR.(special),Washington,D.C., « nj : ' .Z?« A ; M. H. PADDOCK, M. E., Philadelphia, . . Fourth Street GEO. A. NIXON, C. E., Covington, Ky., . . Broad Street CHAS. W. SCHMICH, A. C. (special), South Bethlehem, Seneca Street RICHARD H. TUCKER, Jr., C. E., Wiscasset, Me., 27 Saucon Ball W. A. WARREN, C. E., Darlington, Pa., . . Birch Street N. B. WITTMAN, A. C. (special), Lanark, . . Cedar Street THEO. D. PALMER, C. E., Newark, N. J., . 23 Saucon Ball H. J. SEAMAN, A. C, Bethlehem, . . . Market Street 13

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Did we ever allow the ruminating Fresh to tread those Sopho- moric aisles without performing the customary ablutions? We think not. The Engineering Corps of the class finished their Compass Survey during the Spring, and a committee of the C. E. ' s are engaged at present in calculating the area. Their report is anxiously awaited. Often, in that memorable survey, have our expectations been blighted when, instead of receiving the much desired lo, as a reward of our daily toil, we saw our energetic instructor, with his accustomed smile, scratch his little 2.5 after our names. It may have been due to our enormous catenaries, or our excellent conduct, but which we cannot tell. Of the original forty who entered the class in the Fall of ' 75, but one-third remain. Many have left us ; some voluntarily ; others by pre- mature graduation, through the Faculty. One of our number has been stricken by the hand of death. Horn, Curtis, and the unskillful and reluctant witness, who conducted himself with such gravity before the Inquisition, have left these scientific shades; and he who traverses the halls of Jefferson will find the worthy trio busily engaged in handling the scalpel and dissecting knife. F 1 appears in perennial bloom, in the more congenial atmos- phere of Lafayette. Blessed is he who talketh little. P. S. D. C. G. P r, the originator of those famous Newark jokes, has departed with his little satchel. He now graces Union with his amiable presence, and appears there as Senior, Junior, Soph., and Fresh. Doc has just returned from a four months ' rustication on the slope, where his mental powers acquired sufficient development — as testified to by an expert — to enable him to study that science of sciences, Psychology. He has not, as yet, appeared at the University, being too busily engaged in editing his Frisco experience, for the benefit of his admirers. It has been said that joy never occurs unmixed with sorrow, and it becomes our sad duty to note that one of our brightest and most promising members, Mr. Wm. S. Duncan, has left us, never to return. IS