Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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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

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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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at religious services became voluntary. Free tuition became a tiling of the past. Thus, little by little, the Lehigh of today developed. And surely, the Lehigh of tomorrow will be different. Change is the normal concomitant of passing time. Consequently, we would not expect to find Lehigh tomorrow as it was today. But the changes which the University will undergo within the next few years are more fundamental than those surface alterations which arc. in reality, not so very different from those which preceded them. These changes are more than automatic responses to an immediate need. They are part of a carefully