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monument to the eighteen hundred Lehigh men who had served in the war and to the forty-six of those who had died, was constructed on the campus. In the twenties many of the organizations which now flourish on the campus were organized. The Department of Fine Arts was estahhshed, as well as the Lehigh Review. The Review started out as a literary and philosophical magazine, but in time its original intentions were forgotten, and, in 1940, it went down the same road that the Burr had traveled a few years earlier. Most of the honorary societies were established during this period, including ODK, Sigma Xi, Pi Tau Sigma, Pi Mu Epsilon, Pi Delta Epsilon, Delta Omicron Theta, Eta Sigma Phi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Alpha Kappa Psi. Lehigh continued to expand through the depression and recovery periods that preceded World War IL In 1930 the James Ward Packard Laboratory of mechanical and electrical engineering was dedicated, and the library was re- modeled to include an art gallery, reading room, and additional stackspace. In the late thirties Richards and Drinker Houses, the first steps in the formation of a proposed dormitory quadrangle on South Mountain, were begun, and in the fall of 1941 Eugene Gifford Grace Hall, the newest permanent building now in use, was dedicated. World War II was the most trying period in the University ' s history. Shortly after the entry of the LTnited States into the war the administration announced the acceleration of the academic program. Before long a large portion of the student body had joined the service reserve programs, and in the following fall advanced ROTC men were required to join the Enlisted Reserve Corps. In the spring of 1943 the Air Corps started to activate its reserves, and at the end of the spring semester of that year the advanced ROTC men were also called to active duty, as well as the Naval Reserve men. The army virtually took over the campus during the summer when over 1200 men were ordered here under the Army Specialized Training Program, the civilian student body being reduced to a few hundred. For over a year the campus was dominated by the men in khaki until the program was abandoned by the Army in 1944. During this period the dorms and campus fraternity houses had been turned into barracks with men being tucked into every nook and cranny. During this time and in the year that followed the civilian student body was composed mainly of seventeen year-olds, just out of high school, who often were drafted as soon as they reached their eighteenth birthday. With such a small student bodv manv of the facultv members who had not been called PICTURE : William H. Chandler Chemistry Laboratory. The laboratory was named in recogni- tion of Dr. Chandler ' s thirty-five years ' service as professor of chemistry. •21-
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to active duty in the services left the University to do work for the government at other schools or to enter industry. With the enrollment hitting the lowest level during the winter of 1944-45 students hegan to drift back to the campus with the end of the war in Europe. The services had started to discharge men with long records, and manv of them were anxious to continue interrupted educations or to take advantage of the opportunities afforded veterans under the G.I. Bill of Rights. Thus the Uni- versity started on the long road back to normalcy. During the summer of 1946 the enrollment was back to the pre-war level, and by the winter it reached an all-time high of almost three thousand. The fraternities, many of which had been inactive and had lost their houses during the war, were open again, and the dormitories housed almost twice as many men as they had before the war. The town group, small and impotent in previous years, was swelled by returning servicemen, many of whom were married and living in town, and Ijecame one of the most influential groups on the campus. Before long, the clubs and societies mentioned above and traditional on the campus, were reorganized by the returning veterans, and student life was given new blood with the formation of the Flying Club, Pershing Rifles, the Radio Club, and many others. By the fall of 1946 it seemed that Lehigh was at last back to normal, but to the returning, pre-war student and professor alike it was, in many respects, a different and possibly a greater Lehigh. The serious-minded veteran had re- placed Joe College, and now his education and diploma were of prime import- ance. Football weekends, parties and dances, and houseparties were planned as usual, but it was mainly work ahead. It seemed that Asa Packer ' s ambitions truly were being fulfilled. ♦ ♦ PICTURE: The University Library. The original building was erected in 1877 by the founder of the University as a memorial to his daughter, Mrs. Lucy Packer Linderman. ■22-
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