Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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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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