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versity is principally, by textbooks, with supplementary lectures. That feature of the railroad magnate ' s polytechnic college certainly has not changed in 76 years. If Asa ' s spirit wanders along the ridge of South Mountain and looks down over the campus, it sees hundreds of students walking from Packer Hall down to Christmas and Saucon Halls (now joined by a Hyphen tower Asa never knew) carrying notebooks in which to record the wisdom, if any, gleaned from the supplementary lectures. But there are many things which have changed. No students stand at windows in Saucon Hall to shoot at passing goats, as the Burr reports they did back in the handle-bar days of Lehigh. Arcadia me ets regularly as it did in the day of Richard Harding Davis, but its members do not engage in boxing or philosophical conversation as did Davis ' Arcadia members. Students are now allowed to take books home from the Library, a privilege they lacked back in the ' 70 ' s, although few seem to avail themselves of the opportunity. The Supply Bureau has expanded from a one-counter affair into a small department store. Compulsory attendance at chapel, long a cause of much griping among Lehigh men, is no longer with us, and students may now sleep until 8 instead of having to get up at 7 ' .4.5. The class rivalries have disappeared; and freshmen wear brown crew hats instead of dinks. Students may no longer go boating on the Lehigh river, as they once could, but automobiles swarm over the campus. Students are now officially permitted to swear (as long as they act like gentlemen) , but intoxication is still officially frowned upon, as it was back in the days when all the campus roads and paths were mud. But no matter how student life has changed, no matter how the details have been altered, no matter how many buildings have been built or how much labora- tory equipment has been installed, the educational ideas of Mr. Packer and Bishop Stevens live on. A University on South Mountain by the Lehigh River, a school whose technological training is softened and broadened by its studies in and pro- motion of the humanities and social sciences, a polytechnic college, for the education of youth, of the name, style, and title of Lehigh University — the col- lege that began down there in Christmas Hall in 1 866, the college for which Asa Packer gave half a million dollars and 56 acres of land — Lehigh University is a grand old professor. When Asa ' s spirit sees the Alumni Memorial Building tower silhouetted against the sunset, he must feel very proud. 22
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began to get more culture. The Lehigh Review and the Department of Fine Arts were both established. We still have the Department of Fine Arts, but the Review, starting out as a literary and philosophical magazine for intelligent students, forgot its original policies, and, in 1940, went down the same road the Burr had traveled a few years earlier. The art gallery opened in 1930, three days before the James Ward Packard Laboratory of mechanical and electrical engineering was dedicated. About the same time, Lehigh received $100,000 from the estate of one of its former pro- fessors, L. C. Stewardson, for the establishment of a professorship in philosophy, and $50,000 from Mrs. A. N. Cleaver for the promotion of music at the University. The 1920 ' s seem also to have been the years in which the establishment of honorary societies flourished. Sigma Xi, Pi Tau Sigma, Pi Mu Epsilon, Pi Delta Epsilon, Delta Omicron Theta, Eta Sigma Phi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Alpha Kappa Psi are among those which date from that decade. As the Twenties went out and the Depression came in, the Library was re- modeled. And while the present undergraduates of Lehigh were getting well along in grade and junior high school, Lehigh was establishing a Department of Moral and Religious Philosophy, starting a placement bureau, and resurfacing its roads. The Interfraternity Ball, much wetter than wise and forward-looking Max McConn appreciated, started on its way to becoming a Lehigh tradition, and we sent our second and third Rhodes scholars across to a much older school on the Thames. (First Rhodes scholar from Lehigh was Max Goepp, ' 28.) Six years ago, President Richards retired, and Dr. Clement C. Williams, dean of engineering at the University of Iowa, became new president of the University. Dean McConn went to Washington Square College and Director of Admissions Congdon became the new dean of undergraduates. The year that the class of 1 942 entered the University Richards House was completed and the Interdormi- tory and Town Councils were organized. Last Fall, Lehigh ' s newest building, Grace Hall, given to the University by Eugene GifTord Grace, president of the Board of Trustees and one of Lehigh ' s more famous alumni, was dedicated. And hundreds of undergraduates sat and watched the University grant honorary degrees to its distinguished sons and others, as part of the Convocation celebrating the diamond jubilee of the school that Asa Packer founded. This year the Chi Psi and Phi Gamma Delta houses were gutted by fire ( as was the Physics Lab over forty years ago ) , the University ' s academic program was accelerated to three semesters a year, several faculty mem- bers have gone to serve the government, and the Navy has established a new V-i training course. The Brown and White urges that students be deferred from the draft until they complete their college careers. The catalogue of 1868 stated that the instruction in all parts of the Uni- 2 1
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