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students as Lamberton Hall). Sayre Park and the Arboretum were added to the University grounds. The Band was established, the Alumni Bulletin was first issued, and Cyanide was founded. In 191 3 Taylor Gym and Field were completed and Coppee became a class building. Then came the war years, years strangely similar to those through which Lehigh is now passing. The pages of the Brown and White of that time certainly rese mble the 1941 and 1 942 issues. News stories told of the University ' s co-operation with the govern- ment, editorials stoutly asserted that the war effort needed technical and mana- gerial excellence just as much as proficiency in handling a gun. The University accelerated its academic program in 19 18 just as it is doing in 1942. By the elimination of holidays the second semester was shortened. Many Lehigh men went off to the war. The Students Army Training Corps, out of which grew the present ROTC, was organized. Every physically fit student over the age of 18 had to join the corps and had to submit to being housed in a dormitory or campus fraternity. The campus was turned into a quasi-military camp, with armed sentries demanding passes from everyone who stepped on the University grounds. A curriculum in marine engineering, which reminds one of our present Navy Diesel course, was established. But the University routine was disturbed for only a short time, for, by the end of January, 191 9, the SATC had been disbanded, the University no longer offered special technical courses to soldiers, and, in general, Lehigh was about ready to return to a normal status. Now began what might be called the Modern or Mature era of the University. In 1918, Lehigh was divided into the three colleges which are now so familiar to us : Arts and Science, Business Administration, and Engineering. In 1 9 1 9 the Interfraternity Council was organized. Charles Russ Richards became president of the University in 192 1, and Lehigh began to expand greatly. A Greater Lehigh Fund, built by alumni, friends, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Carnegie Foundation, came to total two million dollars. And the forty students, two instruc- tors, six professors, and one janitor who had gathered in Christmas Hall that September day in 1 866 when Asa Packer had opened his school would have been amazed and proud to have seen the tall and grand tower of the Alumni Memorial Building raise its head to gaze across the green lawns of the campus. Eighteen hundred Lehigh men had served in the World War. Forty-six had died. To those eighteen hundred and to those forty-six, the new administration building was a monument. Two years after President Richards came to Lehigh, Charles Maxwell McConn became Lehigh ' s first Dean. The Calculus Cremation went out. A Lehigh chapter of ODK came in. The military department established an ordnance unit in addi- tion to the infantry, and moved into the old Commons. (In 1941 the military j8 department moved out, and the Armory became a dining hall again.) Lehigh
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had ever played. Davis, the Gibson Boy, the Lehigh playboy who later became the famous journalist and short-story writer, has become a Lehigh legend — a legend of undergraduate life. It was Davis who founded Arcadia (which started as a sort of beer-and-pretzels club) ; it was Davis who founded Mustard and Cheese (which began its career in a saloon). But Davis never was graduated from Lehigh. He was expelled. The same year (i 884-1 885) that Davis founded Arcadia, Professor Edward Williams (after whom Williams Hall is named) founded Tau Beta Pi, which has become a national Phi Beta Kappa for engineers. And it was about two years later that the Lehigh chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was established. In the course-society field, the Chemical Society was the first, being founded in 1871. In 1887, the year that a four-year course in electrical engineering was established, the E.E. Society, rather naturally, was also founded. Other engineering societies have been organized until now nearly every curriculum has its own organization. By 1894, the year the Brown and White was first published, the University had become quite grown up — at least compared to the days when it had con- sisted of one building, forty students, six professors, and a hope in the heart of a Lehigh Valley industrial baron. As enrollment had steadily increased and as the University increased the scope of its activities, more buildings had been built. Although the University used only one building — Christmas Hall — for two years, in 1868 Packer Hall had been opened and the University had moved in. In 1872, Saucon Hall was completed and opened as a dormitory and dining room. The Library had been dedicated in 1878, the same year that Asa Packer died. That same year it had been announced that Lehigh would make provision for the awarding of the degrees of M.A., Ph.D., and Sc.D. The next year, the year of the first Founder ' s Day celebration, the athletic field was opened, and in 1883, Coppee Hall, the new gymnasium, had been completed. The opening of the Chem Lab and the first intercollegiate football game had marked the year 1885. Two years before the appearance of the first issue of the Brown and White, the Physics Building had been built and the Supply Bureau had been established. Yes, the polytechnic college on the northern side of South Mountain had just about reached the point where it needed an undergraduate newspaper. Lehigh started to move from its adolescence toward its maturity. By 1 9 1 1 Summer School, the College of Arts and Science, the Flagpole, and Fritz Lab were part of Lehigh. But times had not been too easy f or Lehigh. Only an appro- priation of $150,000 from the State of Pennsylvania and many financial dona- tions from alumni had enabled Lehigh to keep going. For Lehigh had had money difficulties. (Speaking of money, the students of Lehigh, for a period of twenty years, 1871-1891, enjoyed free tuition.) Before Lehigh ' s growth was somewhat arrested by World War I, it added a field house to its buildings, as well as a College Commons (known to present -j
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