Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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$L Henry Sturgis Drinker, K. M., LI..D. President Emeritus of the University Merion Station, Pa. We (annul overstate our debt to the past. — Emerson ' The eternal landscape of the past. •Tennyson THE Epitome stops for a moment to acknowledge the indebtedness to the past; t i those that have built; to those who have toiled; to those that by their plan- ning and direction have made the Lehigh of today possible. We stand respect- fully before Asa Packer, whose original endowment and whose concept, — of a new University in Lehigh Valley — to give a complete professional education which would benefit the whole country — which will enable its graduates to play intelligent parts in exploring and developing the resources of all parts of the United States, created the school materially and educationally; to Dr. Henry Coppee, the first President who served it well; to Dr. J. M. Leavit; to Dr. R. A. Lambert, who enlarged the scope of the field of the School of Technology; to Dr. Chandler; to the cultured personality of Dr. Drown; and to Dr. Drinker, now President Emeritus, who clearly saw the problems of the new University and who in a businesslike way proceeded to solve them. To all these and to many more, w ' hese finances, whose work, whose inspiration and whose high hopes have made the Lehigh of today possible, we acknowledge our debt. We give thanks for an illustrious past and only ask that we may all add our bit to her more illustrious future. {22}

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Ii 5L - Chari es Ri ss Rn bards, M. M. E , Eng, 1 . I nt of the Univei tity Greater Lehigh G REATER Lehigh means a I ehigh thai is fully alive to the needs ol modern hese needs Far as the) can be mel through education and research. It entails a life and that, unhampered by tradition, is prepared to mt-t-t these needs very greatly increased endowment in order thai the I niversity may develop a larger faculty, with .1 greater number of members who are recognized authorities in their subjects, and provide it with all the facilities it needs for the work ol under- graduate and graduate instruction and for the conduct i l .1 high order ol scientific research. It means the addition ol many new buildings with thoroughly modern and well-appointed laboratories; and ii means the expansion ol the University ' s facilil ies to care foi the health and to pro ide foi the physical comforl ol the stu- dent. It means the development t the highest ideals ol the purpose for which the University exists and the development ol means Foi the attainments of these ideals. It means the conversion ol Lehigh University from .t college into a University No institution can long continue to go forward u m lit momentum created by past achievements and glorious traditions. Ii cannot long mark time, It musl progress or drop out ol the race for supremacy. Any tradition that leads t com- placent satisfaction or that in any manner hampers progress, 1- .1 bad tradition and should be u| ted and cast aside. Progress can never be made by burning incense to the memories ol the past, but only through the successful forecast and solution of the problems ol the future. We feel that in the last few years we have taken definite steps forward, yei despite the progress made, it must be regarded as only a beginning. If the ideal ol ,1 ( .reatei I ehigh 1- to be Full) realized it will require the unflagging enthusiasm and effort ol ever) friend ol the University, among the fYustees, the I acuity, the Alumni, and the students to bring about those things that are necessary to its attainment. 1 R Rj 11 ki . President {21}

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3L= - WIT MORRI] I EMERY, M Litl I ' ll c-Pri Udenl and i om, U f ks .lit developed rather more bj •L ' 1 human contacts 1 han I ij books, lei - lurrs orphysical equipment. Dr. Emery, [or years .1 member of our faculty, for sixteen years Vice-Presidenl and foi the iui j eai - Vii e Presidenl and 1 ' omp 1 rollei . has made his greatest 1 onti ibu- 11.111 to I ehigh in the encouragement and tin- example that he has given to hei sons Now, as Vice-President and ' omptroller he lias 1 harge ol the plant and ai nts of the University and as the Director ol the Summer Session he si ill adds liis l.ii tn the educational advancement ol the -1 hool. For reputation and for fame Lehigh must look to her alumni. Ami many arc her sons who were urged on and heai 1 enei by Natt Emery, so well known among undi rgraduates and so kindl) remembered among alumni. X HARMS M WWII I McCONN M V. Dean 0} the I ni n ' inn 1 111-. init iat i e and the cum agi ol A Charles Maxwell McConn, Lehigh ' s in si and present I )ean, are to be attributed main- ol 1 he 1 ei ent impro ements at Lehigh in organization, administration and met hods, Dean Met onn came to I ehigh from the University of lllim.is, when- he had sci ved ighteen years; foui ol them as principal of the .V ademj . ten as registrar, and the last two as assistant to the presi dent. I lis recoi d at Lehigh is one of ac om- plishment. While not always escaping the displeasure ol exi ited students, he has achieved four important changes, for to his 1 redil is the present modern system ol records, registration and reports now in use; the enforcement ol campus prohibi- tion; a system reducing the number ol al sences; and a workable probation rule. i 23 } y