Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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Epitome - a summary . . . and more Almost a hundred years ago, a railroad spur ran along Broadhead Avenue, turned onto Packer A venue and continued southeast, coming to a halt near the base of a 115-acre tract that had been staked out on the side of South Mountain. Stone was unloaded at the end of this spur, and just a little way up the mountain, a building was begun. And a university was established. The original object of Judge Asa Packer, read the Lehigh Register of 1887, was to afford the young men of the Lehigh Valley a complete technical education for those professions which had developed the peculiar resources of the surrounding region. Instruction was to be provided in Civil, Mechanical and Mining Engineering, Chemistry, Metallurgy and in all needful collateral studies. A school of General Literature was part of the original plan. • ■ i r TO BQ, jjhj Jeliigh mamB|. W«B» »BD st wioi roriDin rw fum ■ TV»r tmmm Tto MM «i ■■ I ■an -i K . -I oa i»ro«JiiT]o»

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TABLE OF CONTENTS THE UNIVERSITY 30 Administration 32 Arts and Science 46 Business Administration 64 Engineering 72 Military 90 Graduate School 98 SENIORS 100 SPORTS . 140 Physical Education .142 Autumn Sports ... 146 Winter Sports 160 Spring Sports 180 LIVING GROUPS 190 Residence Halls 192 Fraternities 234 ACTIVITIES 298 Student Government 300 Publications 316 Music and Drama 328 Religious Groups ... 338 Organizations 344 COMMUNITY 350 Advertisers 352 Senior Directory 378 Acknowledgements 397 Staff 398 Organizational Index 399

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Through the generosity of the founder, tuition was free. Meeting moderate living expenses was the student ' s only financial obligation. Prayers were held each morning, and attendance by all students was required. Buildings gradually appeared: the University Library, the Chemical and Metallurgical Laboratories, the Sayre Observatory, Christmas Hall, and the Gymnasium were constructed by 1887. The Physical Laboratory was housed in Saucon Hall. Much has changed. In the 98 intervening years, Christmas Hall and Saucon Hall were united, the Physical Laboratory moved out, and, eventually, the Math and English Departments moved in. Sayre Observatory outlived its planned usefulness, and was left to the rats — stat rats, that is. The Psychology Department found a home and a laboratory for its collection of experimental animals. The University Library grew and grew. Attendance