Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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Lehigh ' s 130-piece band, the pride and joy of every Lehigh alumnus and undergraduate, has the reputation of being the finest marching and playing band in the East. Its formations at football games attract as many spectators as the games them- selves. Of these formations, the students ' favorite is the goblet with an L formed in the middle. As the formation is completed, the band strikes up the Old Silver Goblet and as the song nears its end, slowly the goblet tilts to the side and over its edge spills the L . While the band is making this maneuver the students are singing out — Get out the old silver goblet, With Lehigh upon it, And we ' ll open another keg of beer; For we all came to college, But we didn ' t come for knowledge, So we ' ll raise hell while we ' re here. The goblet formation (on the adjoining page) with the heart in the middle was formed last Fall houseparty, and the band struck up an old favorite How Would You Like to Love Me? The novelty made a big hit with the assembled crowd and the band thus started playing jazz for the first time. Besides offering entertainment to the football patrons, the band plays for all R. O. T. C. drills and is one of the main reasons Lehigh receives an A rating from the Army Department. The band is an old standby for graduation, playing for the procession while it marches to and from the exercises, and again at the flag pole when the graduating class sings the Alma Mater for the first time as alumni. One of the most impressive parts of the exercises is Taps. As one bugler plays at the foot of the flag pole, another echoes his call from South Mountain. All is well, safely rest, God is nigh. He ' s the leader of the band, Robert P. Carter. Old silver goblet with your heart upon it.

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THEORY— Is the stuff that students get from books and faculty lectures. When the Facu lty believes that a student has acquired enough theory, he is given a diploma and called an alumnus. Some will call this blasphemy, but it is not. Complete knowledge of theory in their fields has made Lehigh men famous. That is fact, not theory.