Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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B. F. HALDEMAN, E.M., Philadelphia, . . Sancon Hall W. J. C. LOOS, Bethlehem, C. T. MATSON, New York City, J. McCAFFERTY, Allentown, Pa., F. S. PHILLIPS, Philadelphia, W. B. STOCKTON, Phoenixville, Pa., LEWIS STOCKTON, B.A., Phoenixville, Pa., . Saucon Hall H. B. STRONG, Cleveland, O., R. B. WETHERILL, Lafayette, Ind., M. W. WITTMER, E.M., Pittsburgh, Pa., . New Street J. J. ZIMMELE, Bethlehem, ....

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8i. HOTI MONOS HO SOPHOS PLOUSIOS. Class Co lor : — Purple . OFFICERS. W. S. CRANZ, . P. A. CRILLY, T. J. EYNON, B. F. HALDEMAN, LEWIS STOCKTON, C. W. ABBOTT, C.E., Bethlehem, ROBERT ARROWSMITH, Brooklyn, N. Y., J. T. BRONGHAL, South Bethlehem, B. G. BYRNES, Reading, Pa., . WILLIAM BUTLER, C.E., Chester County, Pa. W. H. CHILDS, Philadelphia, . S. S. CORNOG, Concord, N. H., . W. S. CRANZ, A.C., Akron, O., P. A. CRILLY, B.A., Allentown, Pa., T. J. EYNON, Jr., M.E., South Bethlehem, C. W. GRAY, A.C., New York City, President Vice-Presiden t Secretary Treasurer Historian Main Street New Street Vine Street Allentown Pine Street CJutrch Street

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History ' Eighty-One. WE have arrived at the time when all the hackneyed expressions of our predecessors flash upon us with their full meaning, for the time has come for us to make the same statements ourselves. At last it begins dimly to dawn on us that we have seen our last cane-rush, our last election-fire, and our last Freshman Class (though some may remark that the last mentioned is not an overwhelming mis- fortune). To be sure, we can ignore the class that obtrudes the fact upon us ; but, believe me, there is abominably little consolation in that. How are the mighty fallen ! for, notwithstanding the vision of our Class prophet and our individual hopes in former years, our enemy the Faculty has not, alas ! permitted us to enter the Senior year with the largest class on record. How sadly do we recall the pang felt each year with increased poignancy, when we heard how they fell ! When on our return we heard of Billy ' s desertion to Lafayette, of Zim ' s voluntary surrender and. Dick ' s defection ; and now we feel indeed sadly broken up that our old stand-by John T. and Rick too have left us. Entering with a class of twenty-six members, an unusually small number for even Lehigh, the gradual diminution has left us with but one-third of them. It is perhaps usually the case that small classes make up for their paucity by their increased class spirit. It certainly has been so with ' 81. Did we not persistently refuse to be dictated toby ' 80? — though they