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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
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When December arrived, city and University authorities were still vainly trying to recover about $300 worth of fire-fighting clothing, including an assistant chief ' s shield, that the city claimed had been taken by the students at the Chi Psi fire. The equipment has not yet been returned. But such things mattered little after December 7, the day that Japanese bombers roared over Pearl Harbor. The war had come at last, and Lehigh was to be greatly changed by that war. President Williams, Dean Congdon, and Arcadia President McClave requested that Lehigh students remain calm and continue their studies so that they might be better pre- pared to serve the country when the call to arms or industrial service should come. A University Council of Defense was organized with committees on air raid warning, air raid protection, fire protection, first aid instruction, American unity, men in the service, and conservation of defense materials. And the week after students returned from a war-time Christmas vacation, the faculty had passed sweeping measures which added a sixteen-week summer term to the academic term, abolished examinations for the second semester of this year, cut out spring vacation, and, worst of all from the student point of view, abolished Spring Houseparty. The addition of the summer term was the mainspring of an accelera- tion process which would permit the Classes of 1943 and 1944 to graduate one and two semesters ahead of time, and all following classes to complete eight semesters of work in two and two-thirds calendar years. The regular four-year plan was continued as an option for the benefit of those who wished to attend only the fall and spring semesters. But the abolition of Spring Houseparty — no student could approve of that. University Authorities said that Houseparty would interfere with the speeded-up study program. But after the Brown and White had editorialized for the return of the social event and a student committee had submitted a plan for a less lavish affair, a special policy committee repealed the abolition clause. It was the Monday before IF Ball, early in the evening, that Lehigh students in every campus living building and all over Bethlehem saw flames on the campus. Another fraternity — Phi Gamma Delta — was burning to the ground. This fire was far worse than the Chi Psi blaze. Starting in the basement, where a chapter room was being remodeled as a memorial to a Phi Gam alumnus who had died, the fire spread rapidly upstairs. Bethlehem firemen, handicapped by freezing weather, low water pressure, a congested roadway, the bursting of a pumper cylinder head, and lack of manpower, fought until late at night. The roof caved in, the third floor collapsed. Dormitory beds fell through to the first floor. Damage was estimated at $60,000. Housed, like the Chi Psi ' s, in other fraternities for a 30 ABOVE : Lehigh ' s army does some drilling. CENTER: We always have the Pajama Parade; The Chapel is lit with a Christmas star. BELOW : We thought one fire was enough : But we had another.
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