Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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Concerts-Lectures Series with a concert which was attended by 1,000 students, faculty, and townspeople, largest crowd in the history of the series. And next week was Houseparty. A highly successful Houseparty it was, too — nearly eight hundred girls were guests; two orchestras, Jan Savitt and Bunny Berigan, made the Senior Ball in the new Grace building something to be re- membered; the traditional Maennerchor tea dance was jammed, also tradi- tionally; thirty Saturday night living group dances preceded many a trip to the Lookout to watch the sun come up. On Sunday afternoon Houseparty was over, and Lehigh started to catch up on its sleep. Outside of the Arcadia action to sponsor Combined Council meetings again, the University kept on sleeping, figuratively speaking, until the afternoon of Mon- day, October 29. At about one-thirty that afternoon students started to rush up the hill toward the Chi Psi house, which was blazing furiously. All afternoon, students manned hoses and rushed in and out of the house trying to save furni- ture and personal property. When the flames were finally put out early in the evening, the Chi Psi house was completely wrecked — the roof was gone, the third floor was gone, the second floor was charred and heaped with ruins and wreck- age. Origin of the $38,000 fire was traced to the boiler room in the basement. The Chi Psi men, housed for a few days in other fraternities, rented a new home on West Broad Street and began to make plans for rebuilding their house. By this time the Lehigh football situation was even worse than usual. By November 14, when about half the student body overflowed Union Station to give the team a send-off to the Virginia game, the Engineers had lost to Case, Rutgers, Penn State, and Muhlenberg and had tied Ursinus and Buffalo. Lehigh lost the Virginia game, and at the end of the season, was defeated by Lafayette. But the night before the last and greatest game the traditional freshman pep rally was held in Grace Hall; the pajama parade and the serenading of Fem-Sem were held as they always have been. The boys sang We Pay No Toll Tonight as they tramped across the New Street Bridge, and Cyanide members stood guard at the doors and windows of the girls ' school to prevent over-zealous freshmen from breaking into the building. Saturday night after the game, the Interdormi- tory and the Town Councils combined to hold a dance in Grace Hall. Oddity in the sports news was the cancellation of a Lehigh-U. of Penn hockey game due to Pennsylvania Blue Laws. It was about this time that Lehigh lost its pub- licity director to Moravian College for Men, Professor Dale H. Gramley leaving to become assistant to the president of the latter institution. ABOVE: Students in Grace Hall bleachers at Founder ' s Day exercises. CENTER: The frosh have a long wait for tickets; And it ' s easier to draw lots the night before the Game. BELOW: On guard at Taylor House; Lehigh gives the team a send-off. 29