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THE LEHIGH STORY LEHIGH UNIVERSITY. Bethleliem. Pa.- Founded by Asa Packer in 1865— Homo min- ister et interpres naturae — Brown and White— Cnristmas-Saucon. Any one of these phrases may serve to conjure up in the mind of the reader hi s own particular picture of a personality- — for a university has a personality -which has ex- erted its force upon his own life. Mothers, fathers, students, professors, administrators, industrialists, townspeople, educators, and a host of others who have come into contact with Lehigh through one medium or another will react with mixed feel- ings—some favorable and some unfavorable. Parents may think in terms of dollars and sac- rifices: students of long assignments, social life, maturity, or potential earning power; still others may regard the university as a life s career, a source of trained personnel, or business income. The history and background of the university determine to a large extent the way in which it will conduct itself and the manner in which it will make itself felt with respect to individuals, communities, and even larger groups. Lehigh University is certainly no exception to the rule. Lehigh as an entity was conceived when a Lehigh Valley industrialist, Asa Packer, felt the desire to do something for the community that had given him an opportunity to raise himself from a mule driver on the Lehigh Canal to the highly respected position of industrialist, poli- tician, and jurist. Coupled with this desire to repay was the realization that this nation which had just completed a destructive civil war was embarking upon an entirely new ()hase ol its growth — that of a tremendous industrial expan- sion. Because of his intimate contact with in- dustry find as a rosnil of his own experience in pulling himself up by his bootstraps , Asa Packer was able to foresee the need for tech- nologically trained young men to enter into and to foster this new growth. With this idea in mind and a sum of $500,000 to back it up, Mr. Packer, who was not college-trained, paid a call on the Right Reverend William Bacon Stevens, D.D., Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, to ask him for his advice on the establishment of a curriculum for the insti- tution of learning he had decided to found. Bishop Stevens drew out Mr. Packer s vision of a school which would provide a polytechnic education in theoretical and applied science for the young men of the valley, state, and nation. With this as a basis Bishop Stevens made ex- tensive inquiries into the systems and philoso- phies of higher education and derived a plan for the yet unborn school which would combine the classics and a School of General Literature with the original purely scientific concept of Mr. Packer. Bishop Stevens scheme was accepted by Mr. Packer and the first step in the creation of the new personality was considered taken. Where, however, was the institution to be located? At first Asa Packer considered his home town of Mauch Chunk at the upf)er end of the Lehigh Valley but found that it lacked the general en- vironment in which he wished this venture to be situated. His next move was to I ' .aston and La- fayette College where he suggested the possi- bility of attaching his idea to the small (Lafayette then numbered 50 students) denominational arts college. No clear reason for his rejection of this f)ossibilily is recorded, but it is known that the industrial, social, and fjhysical environment of I ' ACKI-.U MI-MORIM. CIlM ' fiL
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