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Vol. 77 - CENTENNIAL ISSUE BETHLEHEM, PA. SPRING, 1966 "... Aso Packer was ... self- made1 But instead of hoarding his money ...he saw to it that his money was ... put where it could do the most good — Puck
While University's 100th birthday has met with a multi The editorial staff members who contributed stories plicity of commemorative events, there has been little are credited in the course of the issue, and all photo effort to date to relate the story of the past 100 yearsc copy-work was done by Assistant Photo Editor This special issue is the Brown and White's attempt to Ed YewdalL outline those years0 We hope this effort will give each member of the The issue should not be expected to be comprehensive Lehigh family an opportunity to view briefly what 100 or complete. Such a task is beyond the extra-curricular years have meant to the University before the Centennial hours of any group of students0 is completely gone and forgotten,, It is an effort to outline the history of Lehigh through the lives of its founder and ten presidents, as well as to relate the stories of some of the organizations and tra The BROWN and WHITE ditions which still have an impact on the student today., There are many people who have had a part in the Lehigh University University Center Offices publication of this, the largest single issue in the Bethlehem. Pa. Telephone 866-0331 B & W's history. ROBERT C. WILSON \ULL1AM H. IIYLTON tiu*ine»» Manager The major portion of the financial burden was assumed Editor-in-Chief WILLIAM H. REAMY by a student committee on the Centennial, which elected Managing Editor to channel all its funds into the issue0 Entered as second class matter at the BRIAN M. KANKS E. LYNN HAYACH post office at Bethlehem, Pa., under Act Editorial Page Director ^"PJ Editor Source materials for both stories and photographs of March 8, 1789. Subscription price: $6.50 per academic year. Circulation: 5,000. ROBERT A. BACHMANN include a number of early histories, past Alumni Bul Meio Editor PETER N. LITTMAN MEAL E. ARLl CK letins, Epitomes, Brown and Whites, and several defunct Printed by Lehigh Valley Offset, Inc., student publications. The bulk of these sources are Bethlehem, Pa. Represented for national Spt>rtf Editor Acting Eeature Editor ads by National Advertising Service, Inc., ROBERT E. FLAHERTY centralized in the University Archives, but since there is 18 East 50th Street, New York City. Local Ad Manager little order in that hot little room, the B & W is grateful GEORGE CARYILL to James Mack, University librarian, and Miss Margaret Published semi-weekly, except during A ding Photo Editor vacation periods, during the school year WILLIAM E. BONNELL Dennis, reference librarian, for their assistance in pin by students of Lehigh University. Editor Emeritus pointing information. nLEHIGH UNIVERSITY! 11/1 ••_ Brown and White 7866 — J966 Centennial
Lehigh: 100 Years of Growth
Those who complain of having to attend Saturday on his holdings on the north slope of South Mountain Bible; on the Bible lies a heart, thus bringing in the classes may not know that Lehigh started on a Saturday. in South Bethlehem. Three Persons of the Godhead, the Ever Blessed Trinity: It was on Saturday, Sept. 1, 1866, that six professors, Turning to the Rt. Rev. William Bacon Stevens, Bishop the God of Love, Christ as the Light of the World, and one instructor, 40 students and one janitor gathered of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, for advice the Holy Spirit as the Inspiration of the Word and the with Asa Packer in Christmas Hall to open Lehigh on the establishment of a curriculum, Packer expanded Spirit of Truth... Around the upper margin of the Seal University. his idea to combine the classics and a "School of are the words of Lord Bacon: HOMO MINISTER ET The previous Feb. 9, the Legislature of the Common General Literature" with the original purely scientific INTERPRES NATURAE. Around the lower corner margin, wealth of Pennsylvania had approved the charter for concept. the words: LEHIGH UNIVERSITY. Below the Bible, the Lehigh, concluding the initial steps of Asa Packer, the The School of General Literature has developed into words: FOUNDED BY ASA PACKER, 1865." The motto Connecticut Yankee who came to the Lehigh Valley and the College of Arts and Science; the technical schools may be translated: Man, the servant and interpreter built a canal, a railroad and a University. (soon organized into a "School of Technology") have of nature. The type of school whichthe 19th century philanthropist become the College of Engineering; and the early studies Lehigh's non-academic "student life" began almost has mst founded with an initial gift of $500,000 was a in political science might be regarded as the beginnings as early as its academic life. It was as early as 1868 new idea in higher education. College learning based of the present College of Business Administration. that the Junto, a literary society, was established. on scientific approaches and practical applications was All students pursued the same "general" studies for In 1875, the members of the Junto established the just beginning to come into existence as a result of the the first two years; they would then select a "special Epitome as a publication of the sophomore class. rapid nationwide expansion of industry and the increasing school" for the last two years. These special schools The paper-covered, somewhat naively written Epitome development of new and improved technological included: general literature; mechanical engineering, was, in 1884, taken over by the junior class, and in processes. mining and metallurgy, and analytical chemistry. 1931, it became a senior book. He felt a desire to do something for the community The University Seal was adopted at one of the first Except for a short-lived publication by the class of which had given him the opportunity to raise himself meetings of the Board of Trustees held at the Sun Inn '76, the Lehigh Journal the next literary endeavor to from a mule driver on the Lehigh Canal to the highly in Bethlehem, Sept. 4, 1865. raise its staff among Lehigh students was the Burr, respected position of industrialist, politician and jurist, It is described by the minutes of that meeting as which operated under the motto, "Don't sit on me." so Packer decided to locate his new "polytechnic college" follows: "In the upper part is a Sun; below is an open See: ARCADIANS, Page 6
The stories of Lehigh's 10 presidents tell a major portion of the story Beginning life as a poor farm of the University. Their stories are told on pages 8 through 27. boy in Connecticut, Asa Packer moved to Pennsylvania as a youth and became one of America's pi The Presidents oneer captains of industry. During his lifetime and by request Packer gave Lehigh over three million dol lars, including land, buildings and endowment. See his story on page 4.
The Founder
Among the many student activ Richard Harding Davis organ Students have long displayed No institution can retain its po ities during Lehigh's Century, the ized the first football team in 1884, the desire to band together for com sition on past accomplishments. Band and Glee Club, Mustard and initiating the longest-standing col mon interests. This desire has Lehigh's view of the future, seen Cheese and a number of publica legiate rivalry in the country; the manifested itself in the formation through the Centennial Develop tions have advanced to the fore Lehigh-Lafayette game. Founded of what we now know as social ment Fund Drive, is demonstrative front. The rise and fall of the excel by J. C. Gorman in 1909, the wrest fraternities. Beginning on page 42, of the progress on South Mountain. lent and not so excellent is related ling team burgeoned to a major the 94-year history of the frat at The status of the Drive and a look beginning on page 39. Eastern power under the tutelage Lehigh, from the Calumet Club into the Second Century is presen of Billy Sheridan. See pages to Tau Alpha Kappa, is told. ted on page 28. 30-35. - Activities Sports Fraternities The Future A$Q PaCK6r The Man from Mystic
Born on December 29, 1805, in in the dining room required six months of Mystic, Conn'.', Asa Packer's early labor from. 16 men to install. A special, years were spent with his family in low stove made work easier for Packer's the house pictured upper right. midget cook. A raucus Swiss mechanical After struggling, as had his father organ-band entertained the family and Elisha Packer, with farms in guests. Connecticut and later in Pennsylvania, Packer decided to direct his efforts The mansion houses momentos of to the construction of boats. In 1832, Packer's later life: a garish desk once Packer made his way to Mauch Chunk, owned by Robert E. Lee; a solid ebony at the foot of Mount Pisgah. Here grand piano, the gift of European royalty; coal from the anthracite mines was lavish drawing-room drapes, a Golden Wedding Anniversary gift, and a symbolic loaded on canal boats on the Lehigh plaster casting depicting the significant Canal for transport to industry. aspects of Packer's career, a gift of Within three years Packer rose Lehigh students. from boat-builder to canal-builder to merchant and landowner. In 1865, the same year he founded He eventually constructed the 14-room Lehigh, Judge Packer visited Europe, mansion shown above in a drawing made apparently for reasons of health. The about 1879. The house still stands, now photograph at the right is believed to a museum and monument to the roccoco be that of Packer (far right) and several taste of the Captains of Industry. Paneling friends while in Paris.
By GREG FALES Bishop Mark DeWolfe Howe, president of the board of back and forth between the technical and liberal trustees 1872-90, said at its completion that Packer's curriculum. At first the liberal education was cut back Asa Packer never published many of his views, but intent was " that whatever line of study one would pursue from two semesters to one and a half. Then Packer sketches by his contemporaries give some insight into at the University, he should find at his hand all the Sanctioned a professorship of religion, established a the life of the quiet and energetic man recorded lore of the ages...that might help his department of classics which caused the entire re The respect which he had gained in a lifetime of hard researches." organization of the university, and in 1876 Rev. Dr. work and in the philanthropic way in which he distributed Packer's intention to make Lehigh more than just a John M. Leavitt was hired as president - the only, his wealth was expressed in a resolution adopted by the technical school can be seen in the design of the library, president who did not have a technical or business alumni association following his death in 1879. The as well as in other ways. background. alumni praised "his character as a man. for the life Educators on both here and abroad had been putting One of the best examples of Packer's feelings toward which he lived, and for the good which he did. ." more and more emphasis on " useful" schooling. Debates education at the time and his consistency with the Henry Drinker. '71, University president from 1905-20. and essays in Europe were widespread, but Packer's trend of modern education is told by President Emeritus knew Packer personally. "Asa Packer was a man of little schooling and his time spent with his work probably Drinker in 1929: broad, good judgement. Untrained in higher education prevented him from getting involved in these discussions "Some of us of the older alumni, who personally himself, he recognized its need and value in life," in this country. Establishment of technical universities knew Asa Packer, to whom the presence of that venerable he wrote. and scientific schools in formerly classical universities figure was familiar and welcome, and who met and were Near the end of his life. Packer sought the advice of his before Lehigh was established is significant. privileged to confer with him, remember with love and friend Episcopal Bishop William Bacon Stevens in Also, MIT had just been established and Cornell was tender thought how, when as young men, with our rather establishing a university. Stevens later said that Packer founded the same year. The Morrill Act of 1862 helped crude and impetuous desires and views in matters of had told him: "I am not much acquainted with these " such branches of learning as are related to agriculture college management, we went to him with solemn yet matters, but you are, and I want you if you will to and the mechanic arts." And, in Pennsylvania, six very youthful statements and expressions of view on devise a plan which I can put into effective operation." colleges and universities began in the years immediately what we youngsters deemed to be matters of proper Bishop Stevens recounted years later that when he preceding Lehigh's establishment. University policy. asked Packer how much he wanted to give, Packer It was natural, then, that Packer's approval of Bishop " He heard us with patience and appreciation, because said, " A half milliondollars! " He was later to supplement Stevens' plan for a university with both liberal and 'he knew we were earnest and sincere in our loyalty this with another $500,000 to boost enrollment with a technical schools was forthcoming. Packer held to his and desires for the betterment of Lehigh. cancellation of tuition and $1.5 million of Lehigh Valley original ideals, moreover, and showed himself as a "How well I remember that away back in 1878,1 Railroad stock in his will. In addition he gave the person with strong convictions, who, once he had decided was a member of a committee of alumni who called on University 102 acres of land on South Mountain, on a plan, pursued it arduously. The first University Judge Packer at his office in Philadelphia and presented Such generosity did not end with Lehigh; he willed President, Henry Coppee, tells of Packer's refusing to him a printed address urging that Lehigh University $300,000 to St. Luke's Hospital in Bethlehem, and a to accept an architect's plan for Packer Hall specifying be made a purely engineering school, thus doing away total of $73,000 to Muhlenberg College, Washington brick construction. He also personally directed the with the School of General Literature, as it was then and Lee University, Jefferson Medical School, and the landscaping of the campus. called, now the College of Arts and Science, which was Protestant Episcopal Seminary. Bishop Stevens and Packer were farsighted yet human catalogued in 1866 as one of the original fundamental After the death of his oldest daughter in 1873, Packer when it came to drawing up a plan for the University. courses of the University. Those of us who presented built Lucy Packer Linderman Library in her memory. During the first decade modifications were made this address to the founder were all graduates of the
Page 4 The BROWN and WHITE Asa Packer,
once a breakerboy, pioneer in canal and rail transportation, envisaged the rise of Lehigh University, which he founded, to leadership in technical education.
engineering schools of the University, and I venture York through the bays and rivers. Thus, he gained greater middle 1850's discouraging, but the line was completed to say that as added years gave increase of judgement, control in the coal industry of Carbon County. in September, 1855. Things were not rosy immediately, every one of us came to agree with the wise decision First becoming a coal owner he turned strictly to the however. of the founder to abide by the broader scope in which transportation of it out of the valley. Reportedly he the institution had been organized," gained a virtual monopoly in coal transport and, with The Honorable Alexander McClure says in Old Time Without any personal accounts of Packer's rise to the increase of railroads, he saw the future of that Notes of Pennsylvania: "After the financial crash of wealth, his life is, as recently said, "one-sided", means of transportation and met businessmen who 1857, when Asa Packer was harassed almost beyond What is known comes from accounts from his friends. supported his railroad project. endurance by the difficulties in financing his railroad, He was born in Mystic, Connecticut on December An interesting outgrowth of his regular trips to New even at this time Mr. Packer predicted that the Lehigh 29, 1805, one of four children of Elisha Packer, Jr. York is told by Samuel H. Missimer, '50, director of Valley Railroad when completed and its resources were After a brief and unsuccessful attempt in a tannery in admissions, who for some time has been interested in under fair development, would be the most successful North Stonington and schooling in a local winter district Asa Packer. railroad in the state, and he lived to see the fulfillment school, he left the farm on foot in the Spring of 1823 of his brightest dreams." for the home of relatives in Brooklyn, Susquehanna " At about the time Packer's boats were arriving County, Pa, regularly, Robert E. Lee was stationed (1841-1846) at There is another side to the founder which began Fort Hamilton in the New York Harbor. Although, as before the railroad idea developed - his interest in While working for his cousin as a carpenter apprentice, yet, I have no real evidence to support my thesis, I politics. He was elected to the state legislature in he purchased some land. He settled in Springville with believe that a friendship developed during this period 1842 and 1843, and after helping form Carbon County, his wife, Sarah Blakslee Packer in January, 1828, after between the man who later was to head the Confederate he was named associate judge of the first county court, spending a little more than a year in New York. forces and Packer. Visitors to the Packer mansion in serving from 1843 to 1848. The Packers were not happy with farming life, and Jim Thorpe (a shocking name to many native Mauch they decided that Asa's winter occupation of building Chunkers) are shown a desk, chair, and bookcase While serving in that position, he rode all around the canal boats was more prosperous. Since the Lehigh supposedly once the property of Lee. Further cir state at considerable expense to himself, raising troops canal had been extended to Mauch Chunk (now Jim cumstantial evidence is Packer's lifelong affiliation with for the Mexican War. Thorpe), he turned to canal boating. the Democratic party (another Democratic friend was From there he went to Washington in 1853 as a Franklin H. Delano, an ancestor of FDR and an early representative, even while building the railroad. He The young man was on his way to becoming Mauch business associate of Packer's) and his bequest to only made one speech and was joined with a Democratic Chunk's most affluent inhabitant. The Philadelphia Press Washington and Lee College. General Lee was president minority supporting the pro-slavery Kansas-Nebraska reported in 1879 "Not contented with the profits from of the college after the Civil War, and a look at the Bill, which repealed the Missouri Compromise and his mere manual labor, he contracted for the mastership institution's curriculum at that time reveals a striking allowed Nebraskans to decide whether they wanted of a second boat (he took charge of one of the first), similarity to Lehigh's." slavery. which he placed in charge of his brother-in-law (who grew up in Packer's home) Jones I. Blakslee. From that With the extension of the Central Railroad of New Returning to Pennsylvania, he ran unsuccessful for time his prosperity was marked. Among his other in Jersey as far as Easton and the disintegration of the President of the United States in the Democratic con vestments was the purchase in the autumn of 1834 of Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad vention of 1868. He followed with a try as Democratic a small store, the property of E. W. Kimball, which Company, Packer cleverly arranged to have a mile candidate for governor in 1869, but was defeated by stood upon the banks of the Lehigh. Giving up active prepared for track and thus prevented the charter from 4,500 votes, in the year of Republican President U. S. operations as a boatman, he retained a money interest expiring. Grant's overwhelming victory. Packer may have been in several boats and buying a boat yard he built boats too occupied with the University and the railroad to and contracted for the building of docks on the upper Packer then purchased the stock of the D. L. S. & S. arrange an effective campaign. Lehigh which he completed in 1837." and changed the name to the Lehigh Valley Railroad. He then set out to build from Mauch Chunk to Easton. His last public service before his death in May, 1879, With his boat yard he began constructing decked canal Difficulties in raising money, the rugged terrain, was serving as commissioner of the Centennial Exposition boats which could haul coal and freight directly to New and cholera must have made Packer's days during the in Philadelphia in 1876.
Centennial Issue Page 5 Arcadians Were LU in Harper's "The quiet but flourishing borough of Philosophers South Bethlehem, situated in the most pic turesque part of the Lehigh Valley, distant less than 100 miles from New York and Phil adelphia, has the honor of being the seat of And Boxers the Lehigh University, founded by Asa Pack er, which, although comparatively young, is one of the best endowed in the country," 1885, Lehigh 28--Opponents 144; 1886, Lehigh 90—Oppon began the article in Harper's Weekly on ents 42. March, 1888. The early days of football as described by Richard The article, accompanied by the illus Harding Davis in the April 1891 issue of the "Quarterly" tration reproduced opposite, traced the rise show it was nothing like the smoothly run and scienti of Packer and the subsequent birth of Le fically played games of today: high. Following a fairly detailed description "Jake Robeson (the inventor of the flying wedge), (who) of the University's campus, buildings and is the father of football at Lehigh . , . induced the Sopho programs, the story concluded: mores of the University of Pennsylvania to send their "On the expiration of the various trusts eleven up . . . on Dec. 8, 1883 , . , Though it was raining created by Judge Packer's last will the re at the time and the grounds were covered with eight mainder of his large estate will come to the inches of mud, over 300 spectators came out. . . (to see) University, placing it among the wealthiest a victory for the visitors by a score of 16-10. There institutions of learning in the country. was not grass on the athletic field then, nothing but The direct result of this, together with rocks, tin cans and a soft quicksand of mud. the rigid course of study and high standard, ". . .in '87, '88, '89 football became the game of all is that the graduates are making an enviable others at Lehigh and her eleven ranked with the first four reputation for their alma mater, holding as teams in the country. , , She has now accomplished the they do high positions of trust in govern unprecedented record of winning four games in ment service, and in our Railway, Mining and four days." Manufacturing enterprises, and there is a Despite the fabulous Lehigh elevens of the past, it growing demand for Lehigh Men." took the 1950 version of a Lehigh team to turn in the first (Continued from Page 3) undefeated and untied record in 67 years of Brown and White football. With one seven-year suspension, the Burr continued And wrestling . . . perhaps THE big sport at Lehigh, almost went under, the Board of Trustees took the matter until 1935, when, because the faculty felt that it was if such a label can be attached to one of our intercol in hand, and established an Athletic Committee. getting a bit too risque, it was abolished. legiate sports, begun in 1910 and under the direction of In 1912 one Lehigh football coach made a comment on A fourth publication, the Lehigh Quarterly, which Billy Sheridan for almost 50 years, wrestling has grown the problem of professionalism in college athletics which devoted its pages to articles on technical subjects, and grown until Lehigh is now known as the eastern might have been made in 1966: alumni news and some attempts at creative writing, capital of the sport. "I favor keeping our teams clean. . .We have a handi failed after two years primarily because of a lack of Although the Lehigh Athletic Association, composed cap which we can never overcome and don't want to over student interest. entirely of students, was formed in 1874 to further ath come—and that is the fact that our standards of scholar The Bachelor had a short life in the early '40's and, letics, it was approximately 10 years later that sports ship are high. We are proud of that fact . . . But that we after the Second World War, the Goblet sprang into really began to spring up at Lehigh. In addition to base can have the best teams composed of high grade existence and sprang almost as quickly out of the ball, lacrosse, football and wrestling, such intercollegiate (scholastically) men is proven by the past." picture in 1949. and intramural athletics as rugby tug-of-war, track, The same year that Davis founded Arcadia (1884-85), In one of the 1884 issues of the Burr is an account tennis, golf, bicycling and walking were in evidence. Prof, Edward Williams founded Tau Beta Pi, which has of the first touchdown ever made by Lehigh—Richard In 1885 the students, realizing the ineffectiveness of become a national " Phi Beta Kappa for engineers." Tau Harding Davis carried the ball accross the line in a their Athletic Association, elected four men among the Beta Pi has been adopted by 91 of the leading technical game against Lafayette, the second football game that faculty and alumni to aid them in developing sports in schools of the country. And it was about two years later Lehigh had ever played. general. After a financial crisis in 1894, when the AA that the Lehigh PBK was established. Davis, the "Gibson Boy," the Lehigh playboy who later In the course-society field, the Chemical Society was became the famous journalist and short-story writer, the first, being founded in 1871. In 1887, the year that a has become a Lehigh legend--a legend of undergraduate four-year course in electrical engineering was estab life. It was Davis who founded Arcadia (which started lished, the E.E. Society was also founded. Other engineer as a sort of beer-and-pretzels club); it was Davis who ing societies have been organized until now nearly every founded Mustard and Cheese (which began its career curriculum has its own organization. in a saloon); it was Davis who walked his pet snake Because the few scientific and engineering textbooks through the streets of Bethlehem on a leash. But Davis available at the time were generally inadequate for the never was graduated from Lehigh. He was expelled. purpose, or were written in French or German, there existed an urgent need for more effective text material. Mustard and Cheese resulted from a group of students To meet this need, members of Lehigh faculties made who met in Rennig's, a local beer parlor, to hear men national and international contributions by translating and women of theatrical fame who were travelling in the the European texts into English and by writing their own vicinity and to consume a delicious (so they wrote) meal original books for instructional uses. of oysters, bread, mustard and cheese. By 1894 when the first issue of the" Brown and White" Thus, on April 10, 1885, the group, following the sug appeared, the University had become quite grown up -- gestion of their leader, Charles Belmont Davis who was at least compared to the days when it had consisted of aided by his brother, Richard, presented its first real one building, 40 students, six professors, and a hope in drama. "Sir Dagobert and the Dragon." in the old Sun Inn. the heart of a Lehigh Valley industrial baron. Davis was also one of the most outspoken opponents of As enrollment had steadily increased and as the Uni the secret fraternities and societies which had become versity increased the scope of its activities, more prevalent on campus by the middleof the 1880's. To show buildings had been built. Although the University used his opposition, he gathered a group of congenial students only one building—Christmas Hall--for two years, in 1868 Packer Hall had been opened and the University moved which met in local taverns for" pipes,beor. and ginger- It was the noblest offering which an Am alia." in. In 1872 Saucon Hall was opened and used as a dormi erican had ever laid on the alter of learning, tory and dining room. Also included in Arcadia's activities were philosophi and more than equalled many royal donations cal discussions and boxing. In 1894 when dissension arose which have carried down the names of kings The Library was dedicated in 1878, the year Asa Packer over the question of cheating in University exercises — and patrons of European universities. Filled died. That same year it was announced that Lehigh would one student often added the words " & Co." to his work— with profound emotions at the mention of make provision for the awarding of the degrees of M.A., this group came forward with the suggestion of an honor such a gift for such an object, I asked the Ph.D., and Sc.D. system for the student body, and thus began a duty as noble donor what specific plans he had The next year, the year of the first Founder's Day liason between students and faculty. A constitution was framed in his own mind in reference to it. ceremony, the athletic field was opened, and in 1883, drawn up to administer the system, and Arcadia became His reply was, "I am not much acquain Coppee Hall, the new gymnasium, had been completed. a student governing body. ted with these matters, but you are, and I 1885 marked the opening of the Chem Lab, and two years want you, if you will, to devise a plan which before the first "Brown and White," the Physics Build Athletics also had their beginnings at Lehigh about the I can put into effective operation." I told him ing had been built and the Supply Bureau established. time of Richard Harding Davis. Although many intra that I would make the attempt. I did so. By 1911 Summer School, the College of Arts and mural and intraclass skirmishes had taken place from the I drew up the outline sketch of such an Science, the Flagpole and Fritz Lab were part of Lehigh, very beginnings of the University, baseball was the first institution as I thought would give the larg But times had not been easy. Only an appropriation of intercollegiate sport to firmly establish itself. The annual est results for the means used, and submit $15,000 from the State of Pennsylvania and many financial game with Lafayette dates back as far as 1885. ted it in a few weeks to his inspection. He donations from alumni enabled Lehigh to keep going, Lacrosse, which was introduced in 1884, rapidly ad examined it with the practical judgment and (Speaking of money, between 1871 and 1891, Lehigh stu vanced due to Arnold K. Reese, '89, who captained and business habits with which he deals with all dents paid no tuition,) trained the team throughout his college career. Lehigh won great questions, and adopted the scheme as Before growth was somewhat arrested by World War I, the Lacrosse Championship of the United States in '90, the basis of his future university. Lehigh added a field house as well as a " College Com '93, '95 and '96. mons" (today known as " LambertonHall").Sayre Park The first intercollegiate football game was played in - The Rt. Rev. William Bacon Stevens and the Arboretum were added; the " Alumni Bulletin" 1883. Total scores for the first years of Lehigh football stacked up like this: 1884, Lehigh 16—Opponents 181; See: LEHIGH'S, Page 46
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The Original Arts —Engineer As a young man of 18, he went to Yale, where after For more than 30 years Henry Coppee did his best to a short course, Coppee returned to his home state to impress the classical and aesthetic values upon a town By JON GREENE work as an engineer on the Georgia Central Railroad. more occupied with steel and railroads than with the Henry Coppee was an impressive man to see—a Subsquently he entered West Point, and graduated in humanities, and upon a valley fast becoming one of the high forehead and deep-set blue eyes, large and search 1845. Immediately following graduation, the newly com industrial centers of the world. missioned second lieutenant was sent to fight in the ing, gave background for a great white beard that His mind and the work he created jumped from one flowed onto a broad chest. Mexican War. area to another. One year, he compiled a book called He always carried himself straight and tall, a quick With the cessation of hostilities, Capt. Coppee was ap "A Gallery of Famous Poetesses," and two years reminder to all that the years at West Point had left pointed to the position of assistant professor of geography, later published a " Manual of Battalion Drill." In the their mark. history and ethics at West Point. successive four years he held the contrasting positions As the first president. Dr. Coppee brought teachers to of literature professor, president of an engineering In 1855, he became professor of English Literature Lehigh when that was its most vital need, and he oversaw university, and professor again! at the University of Pennsylvania--" Belles Lettres," the growth of the University's physical plant. His course in Shakespeare was so popular that the as it was called. At that time the Register listed as the faculty only students at the end of the semester presented him with In 1866, Judge Asa Packer notified Bishop Stevens of five professors and one instructor. While mathematics, " an elegant set of the works of Shakespeare as a token Bethlehem that $500,000 and 56 acres in South Bethlehem mechanics, physics, mineralogy and languages were of their regard for the lectures." had been set aside to establish a new " Polytechnic taught, there was also a professor of Moral and Mental college," and the Bishop was to find a man suitable Philosophy and of Christian Evidences. When Coppee died in 1895, Lehigh knew that she as the first president. had also lost a friend. Speaking of his personal relations When the doors of the University first opened. Packer Henry Coppee. LL.D., was choosen and duly installed with students, a March 1895 Brown and White said, Hall was to be 18 months in construction, so Christmas in the office he was so ably to fill for the next decade. "he interested himself in the welfare of every young Hall served as the first building for lectures and recit During these years he was to divide his time between man who came under his influence. Of large intellect ations. executive duties and teaching; his title in the Register and clear foresight, he stood forth as one of the most Reading the first Lehigh catalog we note: " The health read; " President and Professor of History and English prominent educators in this country and his opinion of Bethlehem is proverbial. The air is pure and extremely Literature." and approbation were eagerly sought after by all. invigorating. The swiftly flowing Lehigh River does " This- noble life has burned itself out and his loss not produce those ailments which are found on the banks It was strange that Lehigh's first President should will be felt too deeply for words by everyone, graduate of larger and more sluggish streams," Among the courses have come from a military background, but more so and undergraduate, who calls Lehigh his alma mater." was one "Industrial Jurisprudence," which looked ahead that the man himself, although proud of his military to modern courses in business methods and labor record, had his greatest interest in academic life. Yet Many were the obstacles that Dr. Coppee faced, problems. to the end of his days, he preserved a military bearing in those early days building a great university, but his and it was said that he was, " impressive--he walked success laid a strong foundation for his successors. The School of Mining dwindled to one student in 1870, very deliberately, turning out his toss in extreme, In 1894. after almost 30 years of service to Lehigh and Dr. Coppee tried to persuade the boy to change to well-dressed, brave, and well groomed." he was once again called on to take the duties of interim civil engineering, but he would not. The boy was Henry But for all his seeming qualification to be a martinet, president, and served until the time of his death. S. Drinker, who became a noted engineer and future Dr. Coppee's tastes inclined towards those of a gentleman Dr. Coppee" s record in other branches of life was president. of the letters. He liked to teach logic and rhetoric, also notable. He occupied numerous government posi Dr. Coppee was born in Savannah. Georgia, in 1821. and give lectures on Shakespeare. tions, and was a regent of the Smithsonian Institute.
Page 8 The BROWN and WHITE Henry D. Coppee 1865 -1874
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY. SKI'I'ICMIIKR 1-t, l«7:l.
RULES CONCERNING BOARD AND ROOM RENT IN PACKER, CHRISTMAS AND SAUCON HALLS.
J. The amount of room rent, board, |nt* for each term mutt he paid in advance to the Treasurer of the Executive Committee, who vUl furnish the student with board-ticket and hey of room. II. Rooms will he furnished oniv to attftknn who hoard in Christ m.v Hall. HI. The charge for each room, with hear and ga>. ntwft for the large rooms in Packer Hall, shall be $U-oo for the lint term, •»- Ma aW the second term , in case two or more students occupv a r.mm ii>intl\"hc pru* -hall he Jio M ami JJC.OO for each person ; where gas is not furnished a Merlin* r..r r.ich room will he made of $8.00 for the first and t>:oo for the second Mm. IV. TwJJ ihiaga IM Mil it* )»• 1111.1 IMwll til IVker HaJlakall hf $51.00 for the lint term, and $69.00 for the second term ; in case two students occupy one of these room* jointly. they thai! divide the expense, and in ,iw three or mure students necupv jointly, the price shall be lio.oe and 4i$* '»'' OK" person. Where gas is not furnished the sarui- deduction will be made a* ahoie. V The choice of rooms sfiall he first lor rhe Instructors and next in the order of clas.es. In Miff class the first applicant to have the first choice. V| Students mav retain their nXMM from war M \rar hs |tViMj nonce ot* then intention Ml la do at the close of the nadrmu yew, an.l In procuring their tickets therefor on or before the first Jav of the next term. VII The price of board shall he (wOwM for the nm term, and ?8 \oo for the- second Term. VIII No student shall •map* a room alone unless all students winning rooms HI the Halls have heen accommodated. IX- Students are required to keep their rooms in order, or to ctnplov some proper person to do so for them. X. Gai will he turned N at The original campus building was Other buildings rose on the South Christmas Hall (above), converted to the Mountain site. Packer Hall (an early wood purposes of higher education from the cut left) was completed in the Spring of ijjht l^igh ffiniwrsit$ purposes of religion. It was once a Moravian 1868, and housed administrative offices, church. The first observatory (below) was classrooms and a museum for many years. replaced during Coppee's tenure by In 1873 Saucon Hall was erected. WHEN AND BY -WHOM FOUNDED. Say re Observatory. The l.ehigh University was founded in 1865, through '.lie niw: cent git' of 5500.000, and about sixty acres of land, for a most <>;.._ hie Site, from Asa Packer, of Mauch Chunk, and upon a plan s. gesfed by tne founder. ITS DESIGN. The object is to supply young men of "The Valley," and the co»:V try at large, with a complete professional education, especially Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Anal. ical Chemistry, &c. Students are taught practice as well as theo; Those who wish it, can study Latin, Greek, and all branch embraced in the curriculum of other colleges. EXPENSES. The tuition is absolutely FREE, the only outlay of the students being for books, board, personal outfit, &c. The necessary ex penses, connected with the University, are from $300 to $350 pei year, while receiving advantages that elsewhere, in Polytechnic institutions, &c, cost about $1,000 per year. I BOABD- BOOMS. Rooms and board are furnished in the college ; the whole cost, including gas, fuel, &c, being from $4.00 to $5.00 per week. Oi students can board in the town, under direction of the faculty. They are required to furnish their rooms and keep them in order. GENERAL ADVANTAGES. The Lehigh University has a full corps of able professors; one of the best laboratories in the country; is in the midst of Railroad*, mines and manufactories, where theory can constantly be reduced to practice by the students; and the young men find situation* A* fast as they graduate. The site of the University is unusual excellent, facilities for reaching it the best, and students can gradu ate with the usual honors of BACHKI.UR OF ARTS; or take decree in'the PRACTICAL SCIENCES. CALENDAR. FIRST TERM: September 1, 1874. SECOND TERM: Monday January 11, 1875. UNIVERSITY DAY, Thursday, June a4, 1875. SUMMER VACATION begins, Friday, June 25, 1875. INFORMATION. For full information, send for Catalogue, to the PRESIDENT, o: H. S. GOODWIN, Sec. and Treas., BETHLEHLM, PA Centennial Issue Page 9 The Presidents A Man of God Takes the Reins The years 1875 to 1880 were still the the "good ole days" in the Lehigh Valley. A complete set of student furniture could be bought for less than $15; rooms at the Sun Hotel, "best hotel in the Valley," were available at rates of less than $8 per week, where the " furniture is mostly new and unexceptional" ; and the Lehigh Valley Railroad ran the same number of trains to Mauch Chunk as it did to New York, six times a day. Requirements for admission to the University included stipulations that the applicant be at least 16 years of age, and must present testimonials of good moral character. To benefit of the students, "Through the liberality of its founder, the tuition in all branches and classes is FREE." This was the atmosphere in April 1875, when the Rev. John McDowell Leavitt, D.D., was elected the second president of Lehigh. In July. 1875 the Rev. Leavitt took over the presidential duties from Dr. Henry Coppee, who remained a member of the faculty. Dr. Leavitt was renowned as an educator as well as an He was ordained a priest in the Protestant Episcopal administrator, for he held professorships in psychology Church in 1884. and Christian Evidences. Psychology and Chrisitan Dr Leavitt's career in the church was a long and evidences had only recently been introduced as a "lec active one. He headed several religious organizations and tureship" to augment the technical courses of study. publications, was editor of" Church Review," and founder and editor of the " International Review." Rev. Leavitt was born in Steubenville, Ohio in 1824, He authored several books dealing with religious and spent most of his early life in that state. He was matters including. " Reasons for Faith in the Nineteenth prepared for college in one of the Ohio Classical Century," "Hymns to Our King." and "Visions of Academies, and entered Jefferson college. Solyma." In 1841, at the age of 17. he was graduated from A few years after being ordained, Dr. Leavitt was Jefferson with salutatory honors in a course which appointed a professor at Kenyon college and later a prepared him for a career in the legal profession. professor at Ohio University. In 1872 Ohio University After being admitted to the bar, he practiced law conferred on him the degree of doctor of divinity. Dr. with his father and Judge Swayne, a noted legal authori Leavitt resigned his post at Ohio in 1875 to accept the tarian of the time. presidency of a the new school in Pennsylvania called After four years, though, Leavitt gave up his profession Lehigh University. and entered the Theological Seminary at Gambler, Ohio. Rev. Leavitt worked closelv with students in the class- Page 10 The BROWN and WHITE John M. Leavitt 1875 —1880 Following the resignation of Coppee, LEHIGH UNIVERSITY. 1876, South Bethlehem. Pa. the Rev. John Leavitt was selected to serve as chief administrator. The Ohio- DEAR SIR:—Graduates from the classical departments of eminent Colleges not? born Episcopalian minister (Asa Packer was closely associated with the in our University for Technical Instruction induce us to send you this circular. You may Episcopal church) served only four here obtain a thorough education in CIVIL, MECHANICAL, and MINING ENGINEERING, and years, resigning in April, 1880, when also in CHEMISTRY and METALLURGY. Our location in the midst of the great coal, iron his wife died. and zinc mines of this country, and in a place famous fur its manufacturing and railway Leavitt altered the teaching methods, the names of the colleges, interests, and our access to the vast workshops of New York and Philadelphia, give our and arranged the courses. In 1811 it Institution unusual and unsurpassed facilities. French and German are thoroughly taught, was announced that doctorates would and also Drawing. By the liberality of our Founder, the HON. ASA PACKER, be offered. The campus was expanded, as TTJITIOU IS FREE. Packer donated 52 acres to the PACITIiTY. University's holdings. The Library REV. JOHN M. LEAVITT, D.D., PRRSIURNT, and Professor of Psychology and Christian Evidence*. (left) was also donated by Packer in HENRY COPPEE, LL.D., Professor of Knglish Literature, and International and Constitutional Law. memory of his daughter, Lucy Packer WILLIAM II. CHANDLER, Ph.D.. F.C.S., Professor of Chemistry. Linderman, and given a $500,000 BENJAMIN W. FKAZ1EU, A.M., Professor of Mining and Metallurgy. endowment. H. W. HARDING, M.A., Professor of Physics and Mechanics. The Alumni Association was JAMES P. KIM HALL, Ph.D., EG S., Professor of Geology. organized in 1816 and the first Epitome C. L. DOOLITTLE, C.E., Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. appeared in 1818. AUGUSTUS J. DU HOIS, C.E., Ph.D., Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. Packer Hall continued to house a INSTRUCTORS. museum (lower left), and the students WILLIAM A. LAMHF.RTON, A.M., Mathematics; S. RINGER, ESQ., French and German: SPENCER continued to divide their time 'twix V. RICE, C.E., Graphics and Field Work ; SI DN EY G. ASHMORE, A.M., Greek and Latin; E. 11. S. UAILEY, studies (below) and extra-curricular H.S., Chemistry; WILLIAM D. MARK.*, M.E., Mechanical Engineering. activities, such as the Cane Spree (upper left). For Catalogues apply to the President. When you read this please giro It to your friends. JOHN M. LEAVITT. President ORDER OF EXERCISES ASA PACKER, FOUNDER. —••<>—3-£~.<>..— v—0-x.v The Trustees, Faculty, Alumni, Students, Invited Guests from abroad, and Citizens of the two Bethlehems, will meet at the University Library at 10 o'clock, A.M., ORDER OF EXERCISES when a full length portrait will be unveiled of For the Celebration of the First ASA PACKER, FOUNDER, Painted by D. W. C. BOUTELLE, ESQ., and presented by THE SONS OF THE FOUNDER. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9th, 1879. Thence they will go in procession to the Chapel of PACKER HALL, where there will be a Memorial Service, and a $$,tmavinl Hiscotivsc By the Rt. Rev. M. A. DeW. Howe, D.D..L.L.D., Bishop of the Diocese, and President of the Board of Trustees. —-<>«-<3- -$>-•<>•'— In the afternoon at 3 o'clock, TMX *J*Jt&*M, S#>a*TS oTtfte Athletic Association of the University will be held on the grounds of the Association, where, in the evening at 8 o'clock, there will be An Exhibition of Fire-Works. A BAND OF MUSIC WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE. room as well as in his office. He knew each student in Leavitt's term of office. The first Epitome was published plained bitterly of the injustice of having regular rec the University personally, for classes were quite small. during his first year in office by the class of 1878. The itations on the same day as examinations; the lack of The class of 1876 consisted of 20 students. University Library was dedicated in 1878, with an coat-room space until after the morningchapelservices; The largest class during his administration was the original endowment of $400,000, established by Judge and the small number of students enrolled at the class of 1880, with a total of 44 students, but which Asa Packer. Christmas Hall had become the college University. boasted members from as far away as Moscow and boarding house. The fourth story of Packer Hall was The only reason they could find for the small attendence Sao Paulo. being used as a dormitory, with dining facilities in the was that the free tuition made Lehigh seem too much like His students remembered him as a man they saw daily lower level of that building which also contained a a charity institution, and was scaring people away. in classes, not a far-off administrator. He had a sense majority of the classrooms. On April 1, 1880, he resigned the presidency of of humor recognized by the 1882 Epitome: Two distinct courses of study were offered by the new Lehigh to accept the position of president at St. John's School of General Literature, one leading to a classical College in Maryland. While at St. John's, Leavitt dis " Dr. Leavitt: (to student who is being examined)-- course and a bachelor of the arts degree; another leading tinguished himself through the organization of courses 'Now, can you tell me who was in Alexander, - ah! er, to a bachelor of science degree through the study of of advanced study, and a curriculum of practical studies. I should say, who was in Egypt about this time?' general science. St. John's conferred on him the degree of LL.D. in 1889. "Student: (with painful thought)--'Alexander, sir! "' Dr. For the first time graduate degrees were authorized, After leaving St. John's, Rev. Leavitt held a Leavitt: 'Very well answered indeed. Your memory of including the master of arts, the doctor of philosophy, and professorship of Ecclesiastical Policy and History, and these minor details is remarkable!'" the doctor of science degrees; a professorship of Christian Evidences at the Reformed The Lehigh community was changing during Dr. During Leavitt's administration the student body com Theological Seminary of Philadelphia, until his death. Centennial Issue Page J I The Presidents o, & tat Aawior 4i^ MAenTAT *fc/ 01 20*0MQP0I KAAOTMENOT T0I2 TE *IA0I2 KAI *IAAT2 XATPETN. 'HcJo/ifVof av fylv, u Trolvrl/jqToi, f 7r i T 6 v T a 0 n v tv a n e i t)T e rr/f f v ay x o c i?ai'oi>«T7f 'H EK*OPA TENHSETAI T tj F ft fj 0 fl TJ f 7T( S k K a T OX) 'I vv i O V f*qv6ct erei A12IIE, nYPIAE TA*H2ETAI ivrtj fiaKpa defy 4* B e 6* X e i ft T(f> Tijq HewavXovaviac upa, fiera fiearjfiftpiav rrj ivSeKarrj. EIIIM2AHTAI TOT TA*OT. K. Qpafiep, T. T. P^apo*£, T. T. Bpavx, *. P. Apa<{o, 'E. 'E. 'Lvidep, Q. A. M'a/c^apAav A0r0Y2 AES0T2IN EniTA*0Y2. The Calculus Cremation was once 'AyyMari T. I\ Bpavx. a big event in the life of the Lehigh 'Puuaitrri K. . £i/i[ie?.e. student, ranking with the traditional ''E'XhjvtaTl 2. $io~xep. Pajama Parade of more recent times. The Sophs collected their calculus books and papers, burning them in an end of the year rite, a practice which apparently lasted until about the turn -MC"P0]^Y!":|H- of the century. The program and invitation reproduced at left is just one of an ever-changing variety. Many depicted THE S9PH0M0RE CLH33 a satanic figure, often in violent color. — l)F — Student traditions aside, the She 2£eftinh ^dnivrriSitt) Lamberton years saw a number of campus changes, among them the request the pleasure of your com construction of Chandler Chemistry pany at the ceremonies attending Lab (above) in 1883; a Gym (lower the Cremation of far right), which housed billiard tables and bowling alleys (it was later ^OLJVEY'S CflliCUIiUjS,*- remodeled and named for President Coppee); the quarter of a million Bethlehem, Pa., on Wednesday dollar Packer Memorial Church, the Evening, June 17th, 1885, at gift of Mrs. Mary Packer Cummings, Asa's daughter, and a hydraulics lab II o'clock. in 1888. Into the Front Ranks By TOM ROBERTS and Cheese and Tau Beta Pi (1885), and Phi Beta Kappa (1887) appeared on the Lehigh scene. Even the football "In 1881 there came to Lehigh a president under team won its first game in 1885 and for the very first time whose vigorous and capable hands the University was beat Lafayette in 1887. to assume her place in the front ranks of technical edu With an increase in the size of the student body came cation:" -- from "A History of Lehigh University" by a corresponding increase in building. Coppee Hall, Chand Catherine Bower. ler Chemistry Laboratory, Packer Church and a hy Robert Alexander Lamberton served as Lehigh's third draulics laboratory were constructed. president from 1881 to 1893. when on September 1 he President Lamberton was responsible for a change in died in office. Lamberton was selected in 1880 to fill the entrance requirements. Physics was allowed to be sub job left vacant by President Leavitt who resigned during stituted for either Latin or Greek. The Trustees found in him the same qualities that the the same year, faculty and students saw and admired. In his reports and Lamberton had one of the most varied careers of any The Rt. Rev. Nelson Somerville Rulison, president of statements of plans for work he was always painstaking, Lehigh president. He was valedictorian of his graduating the Board of Trustees said of Lamberton: " In the ad accurate, thorough and wise. No man is perfect and all class at Dickinson in 1841. After graduating from Penn ministration of the affairs of this University, President men make mistakes, from which even college breeding with a L.L.D. he became a member of the bar. The Civil Lamberton was wise and strong. Men who have given their and relations make no exceptions. But take him 'all in War saw Lamberton as a colonel for the Union Army. lives to special studies were considered by him to be the all', he was in this university the right man in the right Before becoming president, Lamberton had many con most competent men to teachthose studies, and he did not place, and his presidency will ever be regarded as a tacts with the University. Besides being a member of the arbitrarily break their system. But when the whole curri splendid success." Board oi Trustees, he was executor of the estate of Asa culum of the University was completed with as much Lamberton must have been admired by his students. Packer and a Director of the Lehigh Valley Railroad (in fairness to all as possible, it was enforced by a strong When he returned from a European Trip in 1891 the stu which most of the University's endowment was originally hand. dents met him at the station with a parade, a band and invested). None of us, whether in college or out of it, have any fireworks. According to the Alumni Bulletin "His credentials special fondness for discipline, and while age gives us In a tribute to Lamberton after his death in 1893 the were in his time as compelling as the Kennedy name an added grace to bear, it does not always understand " Catasauqua Dispatch" (Catasauqua, Pa.) ran these would be for a Massachusetts senate seat today." either its necessity or its philosophy; but I believe it is words: " Although not a learned man, he was a thoroughly Lehigh had 87 students and a faculty of 14 when Lam the testimony of all thoughtful under-graduates that if the equipped one. He kept abreast of the times on all subjects berton took over and within five years the University- President was sometimes strong and stern, he was also bf popular thought; a man of quick temper, he had learned had grown to 321 students and 22 faculty. When he left tender and true, and many a young man has found in him to keep control of it; of keen intellect, a logical reasoner; Lehigh in 1893, he also left 569 students and 35 faculty. the readiest forgiveness, the wisest council, and the a splendid parlimenatrian; full of tact, and, united to During this growth period Arcadia (1883), Mustard truest friendship. all of this, a great executive ability." Page 12 The BROWN and WHITE Robert A. Lamberton 1880 —1893 In 1889 the Engineer gridders, then only five years old, garnered the Championship of Pennsylvania and went on tour in this car; Lehigh Valley RR, of course. The more studious types had labs'in the dynamo room of Saucon Hall. tion has been rapidly disappearing. But one case, and that a mild one, has occurred since Wednesday, April 26th. A week ago there were in the town but 14 houses in quarantine with sick in them. Yesterday there were only 7. When Small Pox Hit "We are advised and believe that our exercises can be resumed with safety." The April Burr, however, (which came out quite late), On March 20, 1882, President R.A. Lambert issued pox epidemic then sweeping Pennsylvania and the Eastern advised of a problem reminiscent of modern vacations. the following statement: United States. " All those men who have by chance been heard from " For reasons known to you, it has been determined In February, before the closing of the school, the since the closing of the University, tell the same tale to anticipate the usual time for beginning our Easter Burr ran the following article: of not having 'opened a book:' even those who are still holidays, and have them commence this day, studies, " The kindness and forethought of President Lamberton in Bethlehem--five or six in number--seem not to have however, to be continued at home until the exercises is hiring a house and procuring the services of an done much studying beyond their work in the Laboratory. here to be resumed." experienced nurse for the use of any of our number "Why this is so it would be hard to say, but it does The University was closed because of a mass small who may catch the small pox, deserves the gratitude appear impossible for a man to study without the of every student. With ordinary care there is no danger recitations, lectures, etc., unless he devotes himself of catching the disease, but there is consolation in to one subject at a time; and though it may be rather knowing that in the remote possibility of such a case, late for advice, we would recommend to all who have you would not be left to the tender mercies of the pest- failed to do much work, the plan of studying one subject house." ^ one week and another the next, and so on. But ordinary care was not enough. Many living quarters were quarantined, and the University was closed. "There must of course be examinations, and it is Professors, (all 12 of them) however, left assignments unreasonable to hope otherwise, but it is equally unrea to be done during the forced vacation, with the threat sonable to suppose that the examinations will be as of examinations on the material when school reopened. strict or carried as far as though the University had Then President Lambert, on May 5, announced that remained open. Indeed we are able to say, not officially, classes would resume May 11. In a letter sent to all but on good authority, that the examinations will be students and professors, he said: very lenient." "The University will reopen on Thursday, May 11th, There were no further reports on the situation, not with service in the Chapel at 3:30 o'clock p.m. even letters-to-the-editor, so they must have been " The disease which has protracted the Easter Vaca- " very lenient" indeed. i!/!:/://'::;/!-:;/;/:-M Centennial tssue Page 13 The Presidents To be put into the Janitor's Box before 12 M., Monday. TO THE PRESIDENT: / hereby certify that I attended service in the Packer Memorial Church on Sunday morning of this week. Class of • I8Q8. Any student who attends service elsewhere will substitute for " Packer Memorial " the name of the church at which he was present. Compulsory chapel with an instructor going about taking the absences was ended during the day. Who of us has forgotten "Jim," then in his prime, and his little den in Packer Hall? "Jerry, have you put in your pink slip?" he would remind on Monday morning. And Jerry, taking the slip, would look wise and say: "Let's see, where did I attend church yesterday?" One Sunday in June a mem ber of a graduating class was found up front in a Bethlehem church by a member of the faculty. "Well, S~, how do I see you here?" was his query. "Well, you see, professor, I have been attending this church for four years and I have come to see what it is like." When Drown was president at the turn of the century, the first appeared on campus. Lafayette Weekend was by now a tradition, but spiriting the bonfire was an easier task since beer then came in wooden kegs. The football field was not at this time surrounded by Taylor Stadium, which was built 10 years later. The same powerhouse which now graces the campus was one of the many buildings to originate during this administrative term, which lasted until 1904. Page 14 The BROWN and WHITE Thomas M. Drown 1895 -1904 t^mmmmmm When Lehigh Valley Railroad stock dropped as a result of the financial panic sweeping the country in the I890's the University's financial position also fell. Drinker came to the rescue, appealing to the Pennsylvania legislature for $150,000- When he became president in 1904, he concentrated on centralizing campus life. Wlliams Hall (above) was built. The Physics Building, however, burned (left) and had to be rebuilt. The campus was well integrated as can be seen in the aerial view looking east. Aimed at Technology By GLENN AIRGOOD usefulness in industrial enterprises, notably in metallur gical lines. When Dr. Thomas Drown became president of Lehigh With this end in view he was constantly setting before in 1895, it was to be the final, crowning achievement of his pupils problems dealing with the facility, rapidity and his illustrious career. accuracy of laboratory methods. His energies were mainly devoted to the laboratory He came to Lehigh upon the request of his old friend rather than class-room instruction, in an attempt to Eckley B. Coxe, one of the trustees of the University. In " make chemists rather than to express in a formal way so doing, f he abondoned the chemical field, where he had his own views upon the various phases of chemistry." been so active since his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania in 1862. The exacting demands of business affairs and the death of his father, caused an interruption for several The son of a prominent merchant, Drown was born in years of all connection with teaching and with his pro Philadelphia March 19, 1842. He spent his boyhood in fessional work. This was renewed, however, in 1885. Philadelphia, and attended the public schools, where he when he found time to accept the professorship of analy won many awards for scholarship and certificates of tical chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech high standing. Here he began to take a keen interest in nology. chemical science, and built a laboratory in his father's house. Later, after banishment from the house, he moved In 1886 the legislature of Massachusetts passed an into a small building on his father's property. "Act to protect the purity of inland water," under which the State Board of Health was" required to obtain inform Valley Railroad stock. This stock represented the Uni In the same year he entered the University of Pennsyl ation regarding all of the existing sources of domestic versity's chief form of endowment. vania, where he continued to study chemistry in the water supply in the State, and to collect information or Drown was able to gain support from the trustees and medical department. In 1862, he was awarded a doc conduct experiments relating to the purification of sewage the alumni and overcome the problems. He also appealed torate in medicine. After graduating, he obtained a then by its application to lands." to the Pennsylvania State Legislature for funds to help the much-coveted opportunity to become surgeon for one of University through this critical period. the packet steamers plying between Philadelphia and The conduct of the various phases of the chemical work English ports. involved was placed in the hands of Drown. At the end of For a time it was thought that Lehigh would be unable the first two years of work, nine definite contributions to bear the financial burdens. It was rumored that Lehigh The medical profession however, did not appeal to to the existing knowledge of sanitary chemistry had been would close its doors. This prompted the publication of a Drown. He longed to return to chemistry and metallurgy. made after the analysis of nearly 5,000 water samples. special edition of the Brown and White to explain the Yielding to this inclination, he decided to devote three In the spring of 1895, he accepted the presidency of "condition and outlook of Lehigh University." years to further study. First at the Sheffield Scientific The edition carried the text of a speech given by the School at New Haven and then at the Lawrence Scientific Lehigh. The chief reason for coming to Lehigh was his desire to work closely with his old friend Coxe. The governor of Pennsylvania explaining the appropriations School at Cambridge. In 1865 he went abroad for study, which Drown had secured. The bill provided$150,000for first at the School of Mines at Freiberg, Saxony, and sub death of Coxe. which occurred after his acceptance of the presidency, but before his inauguration, came as a maintenance and general expenses by act of the General sequently at the University of Heidelberg. During this Assembly. residence abroad he met Miss Helen Leighton, whom he severe blow to him. married in 1869 at her home in England. During his nine years as President he took a broad Drown's career as a college head was marked by his interest in educational matters, particularly in the re attempts to further develop Lehigh as a technical school. In 1874, Drown accepted the professorship of chem lations of the secondary schools to the University, and He believed in "a severe drill in mathematical and mech istry at Lafayette College. It was at this time that he he delivered a number of addresses on educational topics. anical subjects, aided by laboratory practice, which per became intensely interested in the perfection of rapid About this time, serious financial problems began to mits the student to handle apparatus and machines and and accurate methods of analysis with reference to their plague the University because of fluctuations in Lehigh to observe the results of his experiments." Centennial Issue Page 15 The Presidents «8r».ft&* • i**«> si4S& '-*il&"r'' ' Lehigh's Only Alumnus -President By DORISS of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and at one time assistant promote college feeling and loyalty by bringing our men Henry S. Drinker, Lehigh's sixth president, was born to the president of the Philadelphia and Reading Company. together, rather than to suffer them to live as scattered in 1850 in Hong Kong. Thesonofa Philadelphia mariner- Meanwhile a group of the graduates of Drinker's class units through the two towns, exposed to the influences merchant, he spent his first eight years there before banded together to form an association of alumni. In 1876 that often are not for the best. . .It would seem that our his father died and his mother brought him back to the Drinker served as secretary of the informal association; policy must gravitate toward this end." states. in 1877-78, alumnus trustee; in 1879, alumni president; Within a year the Commons and Drown Hall were from 1889 to 1892, again alumnus trustee, and from that built, Taylor Hall was completed, and the Wilbur En A member of the class of 1871, Lehigh's second time on University trustee and finally University gineering Laboratory enlarged. graduating class. Drinker is the only alumnus ever president. In 1909 Sayre Park was acquired, and President to become president. Drinker invited fraternities to build their chapter houses When the University was just getting under way in But it was in the 1890's that Drinker performed his there. In 1910 Fritz Laboratory and the Coxe Mining the 1860's--and Henry Coppee was serving as first first service for his alma mater. It had been Asa Packer's Laboratory were built; in 1913, Coppee Hall was re president--the divisions of the University were civil wish that Lehigh's funds remain in Lehigh Valley railroad modelled for occupation by the College of Arts and engineering, mechanical engineering, mining and metal stock, and the policy was observed until 1894-97 when a Sciences. Taylor Gymnasium and Stadium were also lurgy, analytic chemistry, and the School of General financial panic hit the country and the bottom dropped erected. In 1920 the west addition to the chemistry Literature. out of the railroad shares. Lehigh's financial position building was completed. The School of Mining dwindled to one student in 1870, also began to fall. Under the Drinker administration the College of and Coppee tried to persuade the boy to change to civil Business Administration was created and the arts engineering. The boy would not change, so Coppee him Something had to be done, and Drinker was the man college enlarged. In 1918 the University was officially self tutored the obstinate student, whose name was to do it. Acquainted with a large number of legislators divided into three colleges. Henry Drinker. in Harrisburg through his legal activities, he tried to interest the Pennsylvania State Legislature in granting Drinker was a fierce champion of physical education, After graduating from Lehigh, Drinker went to work and in 1912 it was made compulsory. He was also a for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Three years later he aid to stricken Lehigh. Because Lehigh was not a land- grant college, the appeal was a difficult one, but Drinker staunch proponent of reserve officer's training; in was appointed engineer in charge of the construction of 1919 ROTC was established. Drinker served as a the Musconetcong Tunnel between Easton and New York. emerged victorious with $150,000. When President Drown died in 1904, Drinker was the member of the National Reserve Corps from 1913 until As a result of this experience and an exhaustive study spontaneous choice of the Board of Trustees, which 1916. Later he was named chairman of the Board of of tunnelling, he wrote a book entitled " Tunnelling. was composed entirely of Lehigh Valley railroad men who Military Training Corps and honorary president in 1920. Explosive Compounds and Rock Drills." It was inter knew his capabilities as an executive-engineer and Drinker's enthusiasm for conservation of natural nationally received as an authoritative work on the sub successful fund-raiser among Lehigh's 3,000 alumni. resources led him to the presidency of the American ject. Forestry Association (1912-16) and the Pennsylvania At this time in his life Drinker entered an entirely President Drinker was initially concerned with centra Forestry Association (1917-21). Through his efforts new field--law. He studied, took the examination for lizing all aspect of university life. Toward this end, he many varieties of trees were planted in Sayre Park. admission to the Philadelphia bar, and was admitted. initiated construction of the Commons and Drown Hall, The scope of Drinker's interests and resources was With corporation law as his forte it was only natural In a 1906 letter to the alumni he made his first phenomenal. He served as president of the Association that he should become attorney for the Lehigh plea for a centralized campus life, writing, " What can of College Presidents in 1917. He was founder, honorary Valley Railroad. possibly be better for our students, our coming fellow member, and at various times manager, vice president He was rapidly advanced to the position of General alumni, than to bring them into this association. . .to and director, of the American Institute of Mining Solicitor (head of the legal department). He held this give them Drown Hall with its social features, its Engineers. post for 20 years, up to the time of his appointment facilities for students' gathering in pleasant By 1921, his 16th year, the financial strain which as president of Lehigh in 1904, surroundings--to furnish them with good food at reason had marked the period of the Drown administration was During these 20 years he was assistant to the president able rates, in a Commons conveniently located and to a dim memory. Endowment was nearly tripled from °age lb The BROWN and WHITE Henry S. Drinker 1905 -1920 When "Harry" Drinker returned to the Lehigh campus in 1905, he was faced with the University's $738,000 debt. When he departed in 1920, the University had weathered not only the debts of the past, but a World War as well, (bottom left). The campus grew with the addition of Fritz Lab, the Commons (now Lamberton Hall), Drown Hall (right), Coxe Lab and Taylor Gym and Field, yet it retained its neatly manicured look (far left). When additional housing was needed, Charles L." Taylor, 76, who in 1917 donated Taylor Gym, approached business associate Andrew Carnegie. The Scottish steel baron agreed to donate the money, provided the completed structure was named for Taylor. "Charlie" broke ground for the dorm (below right), and Carnegie visited the campus for the dedication (bottom) . Within several years, the Taylor residents had acquired a reputation for hazings more severe than the fraternities. Himself a mining engineer, Drinker could well understand the plight of those students pictured ( left) during a field trip. i $1.1 million to $3.1,- and the University's revenue in creased from $155,000 to $487,000. A debt of three quarters of a million dollars was erased. The faculty was increased from 57 to 89, and the student body from 630 to 1,136. During Drinker's term of office the total number of students living on campus increased to one third of the total enrollment. President Drinker insisted on retiring at age 70 in 1921, but there were active years to come for the president emeritus and honorary trustee. He attended faculty and Board of Trustee meetings religiously until he was unable to climb the steps of the Alumni Memorial Building. During the spring of 1939, the "grand old man" became feeble at an increasingly rapid rate, and in the latter part of July suffered a heart attack. He was directed to stay in bed, but refused, and as a result fell against a bureau, striking his head. Five days later, on July 27, he died in his sleep. He was 87 years old. Centennial Issue Page 17 The Presidents /After writing a pamphlet entitled with the problems of life and must "The Proposed Electrical and have a clear conception of the Mechanical Engineering Hall," human relationships that exist in Richards was able to persuade all walks of life. " As a result, James Ward Packard to donate history, music, journalism, psy~ the funds necessary for Packard chology, education and fine arts Lab (above). But in his first were added. Lamberton Hall, the speech to the alumni in 1922, he commons, was then the dining noted that "undue specializa area. And the original Lehigh tion at the expense of a liberal conditioner began, not with Prof. education is in my judgement a Steckbeck, but back in the "dark mistake. An engineer must deal days" of the 20th century. Specialization at Loss of Arts Hit By TOM ROBERTS said, "Undue specialization at the expense of a liberal Big beat music, prohibition, the Roaring Twenties, education is in my judgement a mistake. An engineer the great stock market crash and the depression touched must deal with the problems of life and must have a clear America about the same time Lehigh experienced the conception of the human relationships that exist in all greatness of one of its most popular presidents, Dr. walks of life." Charles Russ Richards. An alumni report that followed the speech said of Dr. Richards became University President in 1922, Richards, " By his address, attitude and charming man filling a spot that had been left open for two years after ner, he won us all." president Henry S. Drinker resigned. Not only was the sixth president popular and influencial At the time of his election by the Board of Trustees, in the eyes of the Board of Trustees and alumni, but he Richards was holding two posts at the University of Il was seen in a similar light by his students. linois. He was both Dean of the College of Engineering Three days before the 1933 Lehigh-Lafayette game, and Director of the Engineering Experiment Station. 200 Lehigh students staged a raid on the Lafayette cam pus. Fifty-six Lehigh men were arrested in the riot which Possibly one of Richards' most outstanding accom followed. Richards said that if the riots continued the plishments at Lehigh was the publication of his essay traditional football series would be cancelled. The 56 titled " Greater Lehigh " arrested students were suspended and placed on probation. "Greater Lehigh" called for increases in research, When the game was finally played, there were no riots. endowments, faculty size and quality, the building pro Two days after the game he released all of the students gram and comfort for the student. The second paragraph from probation because of the student body's " good con of "Greater Lehigh" reads: duct" over the weekend. " No institution can long continue to go forward under Under Richards' leadership, the College of Arts and momentum created by past achievements and glorious Sciences was also expanded to include the departments traditions. It cannot long mark time. It must progress of History, Music, Journalism, Fine Arts, Psychology and or drop out of the race for supremacy. Any tradition that Education. The office of admissions was created to cope leads to complacent satisfaction or that in any manner with the increase in enrollment. hampers progress, is a bad tradition and should be up Richards was born at Clarkshill, Ind., on March 23, rooted and cast aside. Progress can never be made by 1871. He received the usual preliminary education and burning incense to the memories of the past, but only entered Purdue University in 1886. He graduated in 1890 through the successful forecast and solution of the future." with a degree of Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Editions of the Epitome strongly imply a connection be earned his masters in Mechanical Engineering in 1895 tween " Greater Lehigh" and subsequent increased en from Cornell, and received his Doctor of Engineering in dowments, new buildings and an improved faculty. 1920 from the University of Nebraska. In the years 1891- 1920 he held numerous positions as a teacher, professor Richards also wrote a pamphlet called," The Proposed and dean. Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Hall," and issued In 1934 Richards was plagued with ill health. In 1935, copies to Lehigh alumni. According to the 1930 Epitome, he insisted that the trustees allow him to resign to keep the pamphlet "was largely instrumental in influencing the University from suffering from a lack of " vigorous the late James Ward Packard to donate the necessary leadership." After his resignation was reluctantly ac money for the building." cepted, he was elected to the position of President In his first speech to Lehigh alumni in 1922, Richards Emeritus for life. Page 18 The BROWN and WHITE Charles R. Richards 1922 —1935 As the liberal arts expanded under Richards' leadership, more and larger buildings were needed. Christmas and Saucon Halls were joined by a "hyphen Tower." The Alumni Memorial Building went up to commemorate the Lehigh graduates who served and died in World War I, and to house the administration and the new admissions office. All this necessitated a bigger library, so it too was renovated. But all was not gay in these Roaring '20's; Clarence, the University Mascot, died at the age of 16, and was buried in the Taylor Quad. Centennial Issue Page 19 The Presidents From Depression gineering at the State University oflowa.Itwas from this picture of a great University . . ." He expressed his school that Dean Williams came to Lehigh. His record at hopes to see Lehigh build a civil engineering lab, a Into the War Iowa was impressive and his foresight in educational dormitory complex, a college of Business Adminis planning was apparent. tration building, an athletic palestra and a health center, Especially interested in hydraulics, he had set up the according to an article he wrote in the March, 1936, By GREG FALES renowned Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research and estab Alumni Bulletin. By the end of his tenure, he had seen Clement Clarence Williams had an extremely difficult lished mechanical and electrical engineering labs. It was the construction of Grace Hall, Richards and Drinker and challenging eight years as the University's seventh from this same electrical lab that the first television Houses, the renovating of Lamberton Hall to feed war president. He faced the end of the depression years in broadcast in the United States was made. time students, and the expansion of the chemistry building. the late 1930's and World War II, yet was able to in When first contacted by Lehigh, Williams came to the The war years created the greatest difficulty Williams crease the physical plan of the University and strengthen school and was very impressed to find that here there experienced in trying to maintain excellence in scholar the academic excellence. was an opportunity for studies unlike other schools which, ship and a balanced budget. At that time the war depart The 53-year-old native of Illinois was well prepared in Williams' words, "are seeking to become famous by ment sent students to the University, and with the draft for his energetic and far-sighted career as a university virtue of numbers of students and multitude of oper taking most civilian students, there were only 200 civil president. He graduated from Southern Illinois Normal ations." ian students returning to campus in 1945, Teachers were School and the University of Illinois in 1907 as a civil being drafted at a high rate also, and there was much engineer. For several years he worked as a highway, Among other published articles that Williams presented talk on the campus that the University would be closed. bridge, municipal and railroad engineer. In fact, many the interview committee, composed of trustees, was an years later he recalled that he made his first contacts address given to the Society for the Promotion of En The University's war-time program was designed to with Lehigh engineers while working in Scranton for the gineering Education in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1935. Trus serve the country's needs, preserve the future careers Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroads, tee Aubrey Weymouth called the speech, "New Epoch of students and conserve the educational vitality of the in Engineering Education," " quite the finest concept of University. " Lehigh is shaping its program to con Williams began his educational career as an asso engineering education, past, present and future, that I tribute not only to winning the war, but to fostering the ciate professor of civil engineering at the University of have ever read." internal strength which will enable our nation to with Colorado. He was promoted to professor of railroad stand social surges and economic backwashes which will engineering in 1914, but shortly thereafter World War I Thus Williams, his wife, the former Ora Luella Webb, eventually follow the war," Williams said. broke out. During the war, he worked for the war depart and their three children moved to Bethlehem. In his ac Williams had many ideas about what Lehigh's policy ment as a supervising engineer in the construction of ceptance speech, he said: "In accepting the trust of should be not only in the depression and the war, but for explosives in Nitro, West Virginia. presidency of Lehigh University, I pledge whatever ability the future. This was the man who, when other schools that in me lies to the continuation of the life and work of were floundering said, "to attempt to stand still in the Following the Armistice he joined the University of the University, to meet new conditions as they may arise onward sweep would be to lose ground. . ." He told the Kansas faculty as head of the department of civil in a manner worthy of the great tradition that has been Lehigh Club of Philadelphia in 1936 that " qualityand ex engineering. From there he returned to his alma mater, forged through two-thirds of a century." cellence are more to be desired than quantity and size." the University of Illinois, as the head of the civil en gineering department. The new president did meet the new conditions of the In the March, 1936, Alumni Bulletin he established his Strangely, as it turned out later, Charles R. Richards, depression and the war, and he saw the importance of criteria of the University's greatness: 1) the development Williams' predecessor, was then dean of the college of other areas of the University besides engineering. Al of the undergraduates enrolled; 2) the achievement of Engineering at Illinois, and was greatly responsible for though money was hard to come by in the late 30's, the great things after graduation; and 3) the creative schol Williams' coming to Illinois. In fact, when Williams was University under Williams raised $40,000 to complete arship of the faculty. named as Richards' successor as Lehigh president, many renovations and additions to the library. He also hired He favored the small college to the enormous univer people assumed that Richards had nominated him. Rich architects to plan the development of building and, as sity. In a speech directed to the Middle Atlantic States ards denied this, for actually many people hadnbminated he had had some experience as a drafts man and designer, College Athletic Conference in December 1938„ he ex Williams for the post after the original nominees had he worked with the planners. plained that quality rather than quantity applied to sports refused the job. He envisioned a fine arts center and theater " near the as well as academics: "Smaller colleges can be restored In 1926 Williams became dean of the college of en entrance to the campus" which would " round out the to the dignity of educational institutions instead of acting Page 20 The BROWN and WHITE Clement C. Williams 1935 -1944 : , .../;vvi:v;vv..vy...v;.. -v'-vV'-vV-\^'-VV•'.*//•'.•'-'.•'•*.•'-*. -'-'.•'•'/•*•*.-*''-*•'.••••/•'; /n the fa/7 of /942 Lehigh had more than 1,700 students. In the fall of 1943, enrollment dropped to 300. Pearl Harbor caused first compulsory ROTC, intensified 2'/2~year degrees and cancellation of vacations and party .....-•.... weekends. The Army and Navy created enlistment programs permitting completion of school, but only engineers qualified. A Brown and White poll showed 1,100 of the 1,700 students had joined the reserves. Then the reserves were to be drafted, as one student said, "on the first full moon preceding St. Patrick's Daymif the college's semester ended on an even-numbered day and the president's name contained more than five letters." And soon the Army took over, using Lehigh as a training center. Everything and everyone worked « #> i v^wswf *;;:„„.. .^ for an Allied Victory. By the fall of 1944, things *5 k ...... «^^ were returning to normal. "Our boys" named the tallest mountain in the Phillipines after their 4u«& 4P»*^ Alma Mater and the war department named a victory ship the S'S"Lehigh. Quonset huts and ^#^*2£3 "Tempos" were built to house the 2,700 new students. Some step in the gym. But Lehigh W**#*^ had returned from being an Army base to a great University. *&&utf$@£>** as management bureaus for crack athletic teams by com peting within their own class. . . ." Williams was the author of several civil engineering texts and an authority on structural foundations. He was well-known as an educational planner, as he served on the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Engineers Council for Professional Development, and the Advisory Committee of the U. S. Office of Education. Among his noteworthy articles on education are " Civic Morals of Science" in the Journal of Engineering Edu cation, " Survival of the Liberal Arts College" in School and Society, and " A Socially Dynamic Education Needed" in the Bulletin of American Colleges. When Williams announced his resignation in the fall of 1943 " in order to render a more personal character of service in education and professional fields," the Alumni Bulletin reported that many students were shocked. Yet the exact attitude toward the resigning president is hard to ascertain. There exists the unverified story that Eugene Grace, then president of the Board of Trustees, had gotten rid of Williams because Grace Hall wasn't large enough. Indeed, the only note given upon the death of Williams in February 1947, was a short obituary deep in the Alumni Bulletin. Centennial Issue Page 21 The Presidents Endowment during Whitaker's administration rose from $16.5 million to $45.2 million, which he saw as the first rebuilding step. Then Packer Hall (above) was renovated to the University center, and the cornerstone was laid for McClintic-Marshall. Because of his tireless fund-raising trips around the country. President Whitaker enabled the University to expand its physical plant, including the construction of the Health Center. Dedicated to Growth By BOB WALTERS campaign topped that drive's success. The University Relatively few Lehigh students ever met Dr. Martin is currently in the midst of its third and greatest Dewey Whitaker personally. Even fewer really knew campaign, developed under the aegis of Dr. Whitaker. the man who guided Lehigh's destiny for 15 trying Students who complained that Dr. Whitaker was seldom years. on campus never realized that he had set fund raising "He welcomed our class during freshman week, and as the manner in which he could best help Lehigh to he'll speak to us again on graduation day. In the four regain past greatness. intermediate years, I probably won't see him." This He travelled tirelessly, visiting Lehigh clubs as far was the average Lehigh man's answer when questioned away as the west coast last year. Wherever there was about the University's top officer. support for Lehigh, Dr. Whitaker was sure to visit. What kind of man was Martin D. Whitaker? What did In other areas where the name of Lehigh had a foreign he do for Lehigh; how did he do it? sound, he opened new doors. His record of trips between If any single statement can be made about the last Bethlehem and New York alone may never be equalled. fifteen years of his life, it must be said he was dedicated Yet despite all of his fund raising activities, he to building a better Lehigh. He was an intensely devoted continually showed up in the most unexpected places on man who expended the maximum of his energies in the campus. Members of the 12th Arcadia still recall the hope of making a greater Lehigh. night they arrived for their fortnightly meeting and found The last line of his obituary notice in the New York the president sitting with other observers. Times spoke for Dr. Whitaker: "In lieu of flowers, Dr. Whitaker made it a point not to miss the annual donations may be made to Lehigh University." ROTC awards ceremony, or the yearly Mil Ball. During his life at Lehigh, Dr. Whitaker was indeed Fraternities sent invitations for parties, receptions, or a unique individual. If ever a man successfully bridged teas and were usually surprised to see him at their the gap between what C.P. Snow has called the "Two functions. He seldom missed a big football game or cultures" --the world of science and that of the arts— wrestling match. that man was Martin D. Whitaker. An internationally To make up for his inability to be all places at all respected scientist, with a degree of technical competence times, Dr. Whitaker had a fantastic grasp of what was sufficient to place his name alongside the others who happening throughout the University community. This E.K. Smiley, in the area of student affairs; Vice President pioneered the Atomic Age, he left the world of science quality of being able to coordinate in his mind the and Provost H.A. Neville, in the areas of faculty and in 1945 to become Lehigh's eighth president. thousands of activities so vital to the University, coupled curriculum; and Treasurer Elmer W.Glick, in the finance In those postwar days, Lehigh was in a very sorry with an even more amazing memory, gave him an area. state. The war had depleted the student body; the physical unsurpassed grasp of the University's "big picture." In addition to these men, a number of staff departments plant, reflecting a lack of alumni interest, was pitifully Time after time, members of the University community such as Development and Public Information, reported inadequate; and faculty morale was ebbing lower daily. were amazed to walk into the President's office to to the President. Finally, because Dr. Whitaker realized Dr. Whitaker saw the key to improvement in increased discuss a matter, only to find that he was well aware of the touchy problems often encountered in the area of alumni interest and support. He undertook a personal most of the details of the problem. college athletics, Gen. Percy Sadler was directly fund-raising venture that was to see Lehigh's endowment responsible to the President's office. rise $28.7 million--from $16.5 million in 1945 to $45.2 Under Dr. Whitaker, Lehigh's administration was The organizational structure worked very well. "I million in 1960. efficiently organized, much in the fashion of a large expect most of the decisions to be made on the lower While other college presidents were resigning because corporation. As he once explained: "Every power I levels of the University's administration. The more of the burden of fund raising placed upon the contemporary have at Lehigh is delegated to another major officer. important and complex decisions will naturally be passed college head, Dr. Whitaker saw increased endowment Thus, whether I am on or off campus, all decisions on the next level. By the time a problem reaches me, as being the first all-important step in rebuilding Lehigh. can be made as the situation demands." several people should have considered it and passed it In 1947, he beefed up the annual giving campaign with It was this arrangement which allowed him to leave on. It should be of major significance." the University's first major fund drive--the Progress the campus for extended tours without any change in Because he defined his task as that of handling only Fund, a venture which was to prove highly successful. the University's operation. Delegation of almost all of the most difficult and complex problems facing the Eight years later, the Packer Hall-Dormitory fund the powers was made to three men: Vice President University, Dr. Whitaker could not help but be a some- Page 12 The BROWN and WHITE Martin D. Whitaker 1946 —1960 Much other construction also resulted from the Whitaker years. Taylor field finally got a stadium around it (above), the gymnasium was expanded (below), and a pool was built in Taylor gym. „*<• \ .,>.->-•'• •* what remote figure. He viewed the University community as a five-spoked wheel--students, faculty, alumni, administration and public—with the President at the center, always in the line of fire. In this role he was valuable as a shock absorber. He regarded himself as the man who had to take whatever came from all groups and pass on only those which could be of positive value. In two instances last year, when Tribute by the Faculty Lehigh received unfavorable national publicity, Dr. Whitaker received considerable mail from alumni and friends—most of it unfavorable. Yet he always managed to sooth ruffled tempers, while not antagonizing any .. .Fundamentally, Martin Whitaker was a builder. No man could have been more completely dedicated to additional people. The enormous expansion of the University under his this University, nor have given more unstintingly to Yet there was any question as to who was boss. guidance and leadership is known to all of us. Shortly his task, than Martin Whitaker. Sitting behind a large polished desk, in an immense after he came to us he evolved the master plans and It is always dangerous to attempt an assessment of neo-Victorian office on the second floor of the governing strategy which have defined the University the personality of any man, but perhaps those of us in administration building, Dr. Whitaker never once allowed over the past decade and which now provide realistic the Lehigh family who saw much of Martin Whitaker control to slip. "He doesn't bother you at all as long as projections into the future. He implemented this plan and knew him well may be permitted to recall some you do your job properly," an administration member with imagination and unrelenting energy. of the facets of his character. commented last year, "but If you've done something He was basically a simple man, forthright and open really wrong, you can wait in fearful expectation for a Quietly and unobtrusively, through judicious purchase in his dealings, certain in his convictions without being call from his office." and negotiation, he tripled the acrage of the University adamant or immovable, deliberate and sound in his This hard-driving image was often contrasted with an to provide for later growth and development. He was judgments, tolerant of the opinions of others, but un easy-going raconteur who loved to sit by the hour and ever mindful of the beauty of the campus and took yielding in matters of principle. He was a fair man, reminisce. Sitting beside or in front of his desk, with measures to preserve and enhance it. He provided and his word was his bond. his back to the wall of book cases which held volumes for extensive additions to our laboratory facilities He was quiet, reserved and dignified in his demeanor, on subjects ranging from education to nuclear physics, and equipment, making them modern and adequate to unruffled and calm under stress, and at all times he entranced visitors by recounting experiences from our needs. controlled. Beneath the surface he was a proud and his busy life. These physical improvements, because they were so sensitive man, and there was a shyness in his nature Nothing more than mortal, Dr. Whitaker has his obvious and occurred so regularly, often obscured for which endeared him to those who became aware of it. weaknesses at Lehigh. One of them was in the area others Dr. Whitaker's conviction that plant and facilities, He was compassionate and forgiving by nature, and he of personal public relations. When he spoke for publication while indispensible are only adjuncts to the true body had a concern for others which he attempted to disguise. it was usually in the form of a written statement, which of the University—its faculty and students. He saw he requested be printed in its entirety. As a result, them as means to the end of academic excellence, not He disliked controversy and altercation; he hated he often seemed far distant to local residents who were as ends in themselves. pretensiousness; he reacted quickly against bombast and used to reading off-the-cuff remarks by other college During Dr. Whitaker's tenure a new sense of dignity boasting. He preferred to recognize merit in tangible presidents. was created among the staff through an appreciation ways, rather than by display- and eulogy. He rarely In another area, Dr. Whitaker's faculty relations of the central importance of the faculty and through praised anyone to his face, but he never was unaware were sometimes criticized as being less than close. recognition and reward of merit. Standards were im of ability, talent and achievement, and it always pleased New members complained that he took little interest proved, and the general quality of the University was him to point them out to others. in knowing them and their work. Older members pointed elevated. He liked to work through suggestion and discussion, out that although the faculty, along with the trustees, had The internal structure of the University was re rather than by edict or executive decisions. He rarely responsibility for decision-making at Lehigh, all major organized and made more effective. Administrative and gave an order, and only when he had no other alternative. faculty committees, where much of the decision making service departments were expanded, and their support Even these occasions bothered him. There was a gentle takes place, were too tightly controlled. of the academic program was improved. The endowment ness in him which came to light only in subtle ways, Yet other faculty members point to his liberalism was remarkably increased, and the Centennial Plan if at all. There was, at times, a detachment about and to his devotion to the basic principles of academic projects still further increases directed particularly him which could be mistaken for aloofness. freedom. They point to Lehigh's high rating in recent to supporting superior instruction. Probably nothing characterized Dr. Whitaker's phil AAUP faculty salary ratings, largely due to Dr. osophy of life better than the following quotation from Whitaker's fund raising efforts. These things have been recited in detail, for, living Reinhold Niebuhr which his wife found on a large card This then, is the portrait of a man who devoted the day-to-day with all the changes which have taken place, in his desk: " God Grant Me the Serenity to Accept most productive years of his life to the goal of making we tend to forget their scope and magnitude and to lose the Things I Cannot Change/The Courage to Change Lehigh University a great educational institution. sight of the debt we owe to him who brought them about. the Things I Can and the Wisdom to Know the Difference." Centennial Issue Page 23 "a Virginian with a liberal arts education." Neville In his first press conference, Neville told reporters: himself puts it a bit differently: "Well, Randolph-Mac on " It is a struggle for survival among private institutions was a small liberal arts school, and I took all the in the next decade." And he was quick to take steps to courses I could get in all the fields." strengthen Lehigh. But, he points out, chemistry was his first love Within a month of his inauguration, Neville announced and this was the field he pursued at Princeton, as a a four-year expansion of enrollment. Twenty-five addit graduate assistant, and in which he received an M. A. ional students were to be enrolled each year until 1965, in 1920 and a doctorate in 1921. when a peak of 800 was to be reached and maintained. An Opportunist After a teaching stint at Lawrenceville Preparatory In his first annual report, he urged expansion of the School, a summer session at Middlebury College, and six graduate school, changes in required courses in the years on the faculty at the University of Illinois, Neville College of Business Administration, and abolition of came to Lehigh in 1927. compulsory ROTC. All these ideas have since been From the Faculty Oddly enough, although his entire career had been carried out. devoted to chemistry, he was recommended to Lehigh Other projects which came to fruition during Ne for a vacancy in chemical engineering. However, he ville's four-year administration (including a year as notes, Dr. Harry M. Ullman, then head of chemistry acting president) were establishment of the Marine "I have happened to be available when a vacancy at and chemical engineering at Lehigh, ignored the recom Science Center, the Information Science Center and the next level occurred. If my superiors thought that mendation but accepted Neville's application for a Lehigh the Department of Government, acquisition of Centen I was capable of assuming greater responsibilities, position. nial Building sites, and completion of the Saucon Valley who was I to question their judgment?" As Neville recalls it, Ullman's reasoning probably athletic fields. This, according to Dr. Harvey Alexander Neville, was; If Illinois thinks Neville can teach chemical engin It was also during his administration that the $22- is the story of his career at Lehigh, which reached eering without having studied it, he probably can teach million Centennial Fund was launched and that Lehigh its culmination when he became the University's ninth chemistry even better. spelled out a commitment to academic excellence. president and the only one to be selected from the So he taught chemistry, and apparently he taught it But this commitment carried with it a corollary that ranks of the faculty. well. Hired as an assistant professor, he was promoted forced upon Neville the need to institute a series of The remark, facetious as it may seem, is typical to associate in 1930, and to full professor and depart tuition increases to meet the rapidly spiraling costs of of the man. Tall, stately and solemn in appearance, ment head in 1938. higher education. he has a penchant for disarming audiences with flashes Neville still recalls those years with affection: "I Although said in a different context, one remark of of humor which usually give point to his more serious spent 25 years in the chemistry laboratory here, among Neville's seems particularly apt in illustrating the need remarks. the varied fragrances and violent explosions, and enjoyed to meet these costs: "Virtue is its own reward. How Characteristic is his description of himself as an every minute of it. To have survived that is in itself ever, it is good to have something more expendable." opportunist, a term he qualifies into an explanation a substantial accomplishment. The smell of hydrogen In 1965, a grateful University awarded to Dr. Neville of his brief but productive administration: sulfide is nostalgic." the title of president emeritus—an action which caused "When a course of action seems really desirable, During his years in chemistry he won recognition as him to express the whimsical fear that some persons when there is sufficient support from those concerned, an expert in catalysis and colloid chemistry. He also might think the title was one long overdue him. and there is a reasonable chance of success with the won Lehigh recognition as an administrator and was ad But a position among the University's emeriti has not resources available, it is time to move. vanced to dean of the graduate school in 1949. After a meant a slackening of his pace. During his first year " While this certainly requires judgment, it is merely, seven-year tenure, he was named University vice out of office, he spent much time working with Dr. as in the once-popular song,'doing what comes naturally.' president and provost in 1956. W. Deming Lewis, his successor, in an effort to make Of course, moral principles should never be sacrificed, He became president in 1961 and set the tone of his the transition easier. integrity never compromised; but it is usually unwise administration with a five-sentence inaugural address: He has busied himself in civic affairs, engaged in to fight a battle unless you are prepared to win it." " I am grateful for your designating me to hold in trust fund-raising activities for the University, and responded And, in a figurative sense, he has won many battles. the authority and responsibility of holding office as the to many requests to fulfill speaking engagements. Born in Millwood, Virginia on Feb. 18, 1898, Neville ninth president of the University. I accept this honor His retirement calls to mind an address he made had his first contact with higher education at Randolph- with all due sense of humility and am mindful oT the to Lehigh students: " This is not a commencement Macon College, where he received his bachelor of arts need of guidance and help beyond my own resources. . . address. This is not at the beginning or the end, but degree in 1918. " You have just heard my inaugural address, which in the midst of things. You are not going anywhere The Lehigh Alumni Bulletin once described him as is the shortest in the history of academic institutions." except back to work after this hour of relaxation." Page 24 The BROWN and WHITE Harvey A. Neville 1961 -1964 It takes 100 years before a centennial can be celebrated. Lehigh, realizing that she was about ready for one, started celebrating in 1963 with a series of centennial convocations to discuss "The Exercise of Man's Incredible Powers." Many leaders of world opinion, and world business, addressed thousands of students and guests. It was also at this time that the first results of the University's $22 million centennial Fund Drive were seen. A new Varsity House in Saucon Valley was first, followed by work on athletic fields around it. Construction was also begun on the Centennial Houses, the recently opened residence halls; and on the just~dedicated Martin D. Whitaker Chemical Engineering Laboratory. Centennial Issue Page 25 The Presidents /n the most recent of Lehigh's 100 years two separate fires destroyed two national fraternities. To the left, Bethlehem city firemen attempt to : : ... *4->*» extinguish the flames gutting Pi Lambda Phi last spring. Firemen lost the battle to save Theta Xi this past Winter in nine degree weather one Sunday morning. Here a bulldozer is clearing away the remains. Pi Lam is now living in their new hill house. Theta Xi is living in Park House until their new edifice is completed. IP* slip?' p ,=!S8§&< ^HHP*^ # Jr^' Jjgl . 6 " V • 1 « ^g. oi^K^^ '*&$&*' $#$&• -'•> <£. :&.. • |.^>.-. • • ^P?^ .'..-• Emphasis on Intellect It is the formidable task of Dr. W. Deming Lewis of Philosophy and the College of Business Administra to preside over Lehigh's destiny during a period in tion. which the United States is experiencing an " education Yet in the midst of all this activity, he has managed explosion." to mantain an open-door policy for students, who have Like the nation's other colleges and universities, come to learn that they have a friend in the front office. Lehigh is feeling the impact of this explosion. Student Perhaps this rapid pace is not too surprising in a enrollment is at a record high, both on the graduate and man of Lewis's background. He began his association undergraduate levels. The sum of available knowledge is with higher education at the age of 16, and this heralded increasing at a previously unheard-of rate, and faculty the start of a learning experience that was to culminate members must be constant participants in the struggle in three degrees from Harvard and two from Oxford. discover the truth. On the other hand, it must prepare to keep up-to-date in their fields. And, like other educa He attended Oxford as a Rhodes scholar—and it has people and help to prepare nations for this struggle. tional institutions, Lehigh is expanding its facilities been a special point of pride that, during each of his " On the one hand a university must preserve and with the establishment of new centers of learning. two years at Lehigh, a member of the senior class has understand the intellectual treasures of the past. On Fortunately Lehigh's tenth president is a man un been selected for a Rhodes Scholarship. the other hand it must encourage the questioning of usually well equipped to cope with such problems be With this solid academic background, Lewis was well conventional wisdom in order that greater wisdom can cause he is a product of this age of expansion and has prepared for a brilliant career as a scientist, scholar, be found. contributed to it. and space pioneer. "On the one hand, its stock in trade is the activities And, fortunately too, although he made his mark in In 23 years with Bell Laboratories, he accomplished of the mind and spirit. On the other, these mental and the world of space technology, he has the vision to appre basic research and development in radar microwave spiritual activities can flourish only within a stable ciate and to lead a multifaceted University, communications, telephone switching, digitalcomputing, and healthy framework of faculty salaries, student As he pointed out on one occasion, " Lehigh is a and most other systems of communications operated life, auxiliary services, and physical plant." university--not just a technical school. We have schools by Bell. He holds 33 U. S. patents including six on radar In his annual report for 1964-65, Lewis pointed out in the arts and sciences and business administration antennas. And, after 19 years, one of his radar devices that the directions in which Lehigh intends to progress as well as engineering." is still standard equipment on Navy submarines. can best be understood " in terms of four concepts that And again, "It's a challenge to see that student His interests also extend to space research. Just have dominated the thinking of Lehigh people during our life is rich in extracurricular activities like orchestra, before coming to Lehigh in 1964, he was managing centennial celebration." debating, writing, athletics, civil rights freedom of director of the Systems Study Center of Cellcomm, These concepts, he says, are: "expansion of our speech--yet these must not interfere with the student's Inc. In that capacity he had worked almost exclusively graduate school, concentration upon educating our under primary purpose in being here." for two years on the National Aeronautics and Space graduates in the fundamentals of their chosen fields, During the brief two years he has been in office, Administration's Apollo Project to put an American on exercise of our responsibility to society, and communica Lewis has moved quickly in keeping Lehigh abreast of the moon. tion with the society we are serving." academic developments. But now Lewis is facing a new challenge—that of His remarks on the Graduate School also are indic Among the accomplishments of his regime are: putting Lehigh into orbit. He has expressed some of ative of the course he is charting: "We fully expect that --Creation of a School of Education from the former his thoughts on the subject in his public utterances. strengthening of the Graduate School will improve the Department of Education; In his inaugural address, on Oct. 10, 1965, he out undergraduate programs: the outstanding faculty and mod --Establishment of a program of visiting committees lined his view on " the complex and crucial role" of ern equipment we will acquire for our Graduate School to evaluate Lehigh's accomplishments; a university in today's society: will in large measure be available to the undergraduates." —Institution of a Center for the Application of Math " On the one hand, it must keep part of itself free It's an ambitious program. But the background and ematics and a Center for Business Economics; from the struggle of the outside world in order that proven abilities of the man guiding it generate an —Establishment of PhD. programs in the Department many of its people can be free to learn and teach and atmosphere of confidence that it will be accomplished. Page 26 The BROWN and WHITE W. Deming Lewis 1965 - Two centennial structures were completed and put into operation this year. Whitaker Lab, for chemical and metallurgical engineering, was formally dedicated in May under the auspices of "250 nationally prominent educators." As the finishing touches were put on the six dorms in the centennial complex, students began to move in. Reports are favorable on their first year in the new structure. Centennial Issue Page 27 Centennial Fund Drive into the By MARTY MARASCO PROGRESS TO DATE constructed with gifts of $2,750,000 to the Centennial On June 6, 1959, M. J. Rathbone, chairman of the The Centennial Development Drive is presently in its Drive. The new laboratory was necessary to keep Board of Trustees of Lehigh University, announced the final phase. Although the major part of the campaign Lehigh ranked among the three leading institutions in Centennial Development Drive with the ambitious goal of ended in March of this year, many of its major objectives the country in terms of the number of degrees granted $22,000,000. Today, seven years later, that goal has been have already been realized. The progress in development in metallurgy and its excellent record in chemical met and surpassed, although because of a dilemma arising has proceeded along with the progress toward the engineering. Along with laboratories, Whitaker Lab from overdesignation of certain goals, an additional goal $22,000,000. also houses many new classrooms, research and office accommodations. of $3,000,000 must still be raised for the completion of TEACHERS AND STUDENTS the original objectives of the drive. The largest single goal of the Centennial Drive was STUDENT RESIDENCES The Centennial Development Drive was first announced earmarked for the faculty and students. The goal in Today, the undergraduate and graduate enrollment during the Annual Alumni Weekend in 1959. Rathbone then this area was set at $8,000,000. at Lehigh is over 4,000, the largest enrollment in history. stated as the purpose of the goal: " To implement with Of this total, $5,000,000 was added to Lehigh's perma Although, since 1949, many of the fraternities undertook every means at our disposal the original purpose of nent endowment in order to hold its present faculty many substantial housing projects and the University founding Lehigh, 'to provide young men with a sound basis and attract competent teachers in the future. This money had constructed two new dormitories, there remained of successful living and to insure leadership for the com was necessary, "to offset the continuing enticements an acute need for additional housing. While a large amount plex business and industrial civilization of the future.' To offered by business and industry and the growing of the funds for housing was available through other keep our comparative place among the 20 colleges with competition from other institutions." sources, an additional $2,000,000 was to come from the which Lehigh is now usually compared, we can't rest our The $2,000,000 goal for distinguished professorships Centennial Drive. oars." already resulted in the addition of nine endowed profess $1,000,000 of the total went to constructing the This is the most ambitious drive ever undertaken by orships. This has increased the total at Lehigh to 13 Centennial complex, dedicated during the Centennial Lehigh. It is more than eight times greater than the and it is hoped that by the end of the Centennial Drive Alumni Weekend last June and was fully occupied last largest amount ever secured by the University in a capital there will be 11 more such honored chairs. September. The complex houses 264 students in six development effort. The Packer Hall Drive in 1956 The Centennial Program set out to increase scholar separate living units of 44 men each. The first floor is raised about $3,000,000 and the Progress Fund Campaign ships and fellowships by $1,000,000. This goal has designed solely for recreation, containing a large social- in 1949 raised $2,000,000. While the goal was large for the already been met and $746,817 has been subscribed over living area, a separate library or study room, and a Centennial Drive, Rathbone stated, " The Trustees were and above the original $1,000,000. kitchenette. convinced that Lehigh could not settle for less without The other $1,000,000 was to be used for new fraternity seriously risking its position at the forefront of privately- SAUCON VALLEY PLAYING FIELDS housing and renovations to existing fraternity houses. supported higher education in America. For this com Prior to the Centennial Program, the physical education The goal of this phase has been exceeded by $1,420,600. pelling reason, the decision was made to move ahead playing fields and athletic fields were scattered across The result has been 11 newly built fraternities and four regardless of the difficulties that might be encountered. the campus and throughout the city and county in 11 more under construction, with several more close to The progress toward the $22,000,000 goal was steady separate areas. Today, Saucon Valley has alleviated groundbreaking. Thirteen fraternities have moved from and was not accomplished without considerable effort a considerable part of this problem. The University city to Sayre Park, two have relocated inSayre Park and and financial support by the thousands of Lehigh alumni was able to obtain a 550-acre tract of land there. three others are conducting extensive renovations. and friends from all over the country. There have been Among the new facilities are one of the finest all- almost 8,000 contributers to date in the campaign. weather tracks in the nation; nine tennis courts; 22 separate fields for varsity and intramural football, SPECIAL EQUIPMENT AND RENOVATIONS The leadership phase, with 104 contributors, account baseball, softball, lacrosse and soccer; and a two-story A goal of $2,000,000 was designated for special ed for over $14,000,000 of the total. While these few gave Varsity House containing locker, coaching, training, equipment and renovations. It was felt that the acquisition over half of the total, it was largely through the gifts medical and storage facilities. The long range plans for of special teaching and scientific equipment and the under $25,000 that Lehigh was able to reach the $22,000,- Saucon Valley playing fields are to make it the center renovation of teaching facilities were needs that had to 000 goal. The general phase, with gifts of $600 and under, for all University physical education and athletic be met. The University has received $2,025,000 in accounted for close to $4,000,000 of the total, including activities, including a new field house and football realizing this goal. Much of this money has already been $2,543,695 in Alumni Funds, as of last October. And the stadium. used for new equipment and renovations for Packard bulk of the $1,500,000 raised between then and March Laboratory. came from the general phase contributors. METALLURGICAL AND CHEMICAL Campaigns in the past have seen the alumni giving ENGINEERING LABORATORY IN THE FUTURE 65-70 per cent of the money. While the alumni are giving One of the completed phases of the Centennial Develop In addition to the areas above, three other projects more than ever before, this campaign has seen almost ment Program is Whitaker Laboratory, the new are part of the Centennial Development Drive. These half of the money coming from foundations, friends and metallurgical and chemical engineering laboratory, which projects are the Hall of Liberal Arts, the Science- industry. Lehigh regards this as an indication of its res has been in use since November and was dedicated Engineering Library and a new power plant. While all ponsibility and value to the nation as a whole. earlier this month. The building and equipment was the money for these projects is not yet available, it is Page 28 The BROWN and WHITE •:',-«>:' ...x.-. Second Century Lehigh's second century promises to be as exciting as her first if these buildings-to-be are any sign. Theta Xi (top left) is looking forward to their new house after spending a semester in Park House. Finally, if the funds can be raised, all the liberal arts are to be housed in one hall [top); a new library is planned for engineering texts; and a power house that doesn't hurt the eyes to look at is also planned for the near future. hoped that work on the three buildings will begin before feet of space and will provide nearly three miles of This is a result of overdesignation of certain goals. the end of 1967. shelving to house 140,000 volumes. Most donors have earmarked their contributions and The library will be air conditioned and the plans several of the projects have received funds in excess HALL OF LIBERAL ARTS include study carrels to be built around the periphery of their original budget. This means that more money The College of Arts and Science presently accounts of the floors—some enclosed for typing. Provisions is available for certain areas of development than for 31 per cent of the undergraduate enrollment. However, have been made for 10 faculty studies, a lounge, class originally budgeted, and in turn, less for other projects. the Arts College is presently housed in inadequate room area and consideration is being given to a study Fraternity housing was designated $1,420,600 more facilities in six buildings scattered across the campus. room to be available for all night use. than was budgeted. Special equipment and renovations To alleviate this problem, a new Hall of Liberal Arts has Of the money contributed to the Centennial Drive, received $25,000 more than the $2,000,010 goal. In the been included as part of the development program. $810,000 has been pledged for the library, but it is scholarship and fellowship area $746,817 has been .It is hoped that groundbreaking for the new building hoped the additional $690,000 will be raised in time to subscribed over and above the original goal. These and will occur in the first half of 1967. It will serve as a start work before the end of the year. other overdesignations has caused the need for the new campus area for fine arts and other humanities additional $3,000,000. as well as a physical and cultural center for the College NEW POWER PLANT The projects that cannot be completed are the Hall of and the University. The Arts Building will serve as With each new addition to the Lehigh campus in recent Liberal Arts, the Science-Engineering Research Library the center for eight undergraduate programs, five years, a new burden has been placed upon the University's and the new power plant. The total cost of the three masters and two doctoral programs. power plant. With the plant additions called for in the projects is $4,250,000 and only $1,250,000 is available A five-floor building, the proposed Arts Hall will be Centennial Program the present power plant will not be from the original goal of $22,000,000. the first unit of what will eventually become a new able to handle the additional load. The only solution This has caused the Centennial Development Campaign campus area for the humanities. Among the buildings was to include a new power plant in the goals of the to undertake the raising of an additional $3,000,000. to be constructed nearby at a later date will be a new Centennial Development Program. It has already started this program and $737,000 had University auditorium and a classroom-office structure. The new plant will cost $1,250,000 and when completed been raised toward this goal at the end of April. the plant will be wholly able to fulfill all of Lehigh's SCIENCE-ENGINEERING RESEARCH LIBRARY heat and power requirements. The plans for raising the added money includes 10 The original $1,500,000 for library expansion in the Present plans are to construct the power plant on area campaigns this spring in areas not covered in the Development Program was to be used for a new wing on Packer Avenue to the east at Whitaker Laboratory, past. There will also be mail solitation to alumni and the existing University Library. In 1965 the decision with construction beginning sometime in 1967. friends in areas where there has been no personal was made by the Planning and Development Committee solitation campaigns, and campaigns in 24 areas where that the new library facility should be a Science and ADDITIONAL $3,000,000 NEEDED prospects will be reapproached and asked if they would Engineering Research Library rather than an addition Although the original goal of $22,000,000 has been be willing to add to their gifts. to the existing library. reached, an additional $3,000,000 must be raised before The Centennial Development Campaign Committee The new building will be located in an area to the all the projects of the Centennial Development Drive hopes that the additional $3,000,000 can be raised by north of Packer Avenue. It will contain 37,000 square can be completed. June 30 of this year. Page 29 Centennial Issue WRESTLING TheLehi9hRe/,g,on By LYNN HAVACH Md., was Lehigh's initial wrestling coach in 1910 and Wrestling Association champions, five National Collegiate The history of wrestling at Lehigh is a relatively has the dubious distinction of being the only member of Athletic Association champions, five Amateur Athletic long one, fraught with many difficulties centering about the triumvirate to possess a losing record. Union titlists and three Olympic representatives. Between the institution of the sport, but as far as the number of In the meagre beginnings of the sport, he handled the years of 1927 and 1952, the date of his retirement, coaches are concerned, the history is small enough to the wrestlers for two short seasons in which they Sheridan won 13 EIWA team titles while finishing in the warrent being described as miniscule. compiled a 3-4-0 record. But beginnings are nearly second spot on eight other occassions. In 1957, he was But miniscule falls far short of measuring the results always meagre and if not recognized for their great inducted into the Helms Hall of Fame. produced by the small, elite group of Lehigh wrestling ness, must at least be acknowledged for their importance But those days are now behind us. The current mentors. in the establishment of a starting point. In the 56-year history of grapplers at the University, caliber of Lehigh's wrestling program has projected In 1911, a Scottish immigrant named William Sheridan the University into a position of even greater national there has been a grand total of three coaches. But it is assumed the coaching position and began a career thus also an elite group in that two of the coaches were sport prominence than Sheridan could have ever antic far unsurpassed in terms of length or number of vic ipated. inducted into the Helms Amateur Wrestling Hall of tories. For 41 years, Billy used his own experience Fame; one of them was described as the " Knute Rockne and wrestling knowledge to fashion a 223-87-7 record And it has come about mainly through the unending of collegiate wrestling;" and together they have com and build a sport that today stands at the pinnacle of efforts of Sheridan's hand-picked protegee. Though only piled a duel-meet record of 355-112-10. popularity in the University. 14 seasons have elapsed since Billy's exit from the Dwight Lynch, a professional wrestler from Baltimore, In his tenure, he developed 59 Eastern Intercollegiate coaching ranks, Lehigh wrestling fans are already The first mat team (below) and six Eastern champs (Merriam, Smartt, Pendleton, Angell, Detrixhe and Moore) from one of the best ('6l-'62). .tttl^ W4 06. #* •"*, VtH/fi VXH'fi/ '/±Aw&m& -*~ Page 30 The BROWN and WHITE —•••—-—^— * Billy Sheridan and Gerry Leeman "... the small, elite group of Lehigh wrestling mentors ..." anticipating more illustrious and productive results a football player from Baltimore, Andrew Brumbaugh, replaced Lynch as head coach. The years of greatness from the " Leeman Years." put on wrestling exhibitions at smokers and began to lay ahead for the Engineers and their 25 -year-old mentor. In his time at the helm of Lehigh wrestling, Gerald realize that the Lehigh public was at least interested, Sheridan brought an impressive record of his own Leeman has produced teams with a combined record if not excited, about the sport. to Lehigh. At the age of 18, he had won Scotland's of 129-25-3; has won six Eastern championships in the The following fall, Gorman managed to gather 15 126-pound championship by pinning nine consecutive last nine years; has finished third and fourth, respec students who contributed $5 each to purchase a wrestling opponents in a total of 22 minutes; for seven years tively, in the last two NCAA tournaments; and has had mat. However, the total collected from the students thereafter, he held the Scottish featherweight and light eight individual National champions in 11 years. proved inadequate and it was only after Gorman pre weight championships and then added the British Isles He has had only one poor season—that in 1960, the vailed upon University President Drinker to provide championship in these divisions; and by the time of his year of Billy Sheridan's death, when his team had a the difference through contributions from alumni that retirement from British competition in 1908, he had a 7-5-0 record. But two years later, when that team the first wrestling mat came to the South Mountain skien of 74 championships in open tournaments without matured, it compiled a 12-0-0 record, best in Lehigh campus. a defeat. history and won the EIWA tournament with a record In 1910, after engaging in wrestling instruction and In 1912, he accepted a position as trainer for Lehigh of 96 points and a record-tying six individual cham failing to have wrestling sanctioned as a major University athletics after resigning as assistant wrestling coach pions. sport, Gorman again went to Drinker to request funds. The at the University of Pennsylvania. Becoming vitally However, though Lynch was the first Lehigh wrestling president raised $100 and Lynch was hired as Lehigh's interested in the University's struggling mat program, coach and Sheridan was responsible for vaulting the first coach. he decided to lend his knowledge on the subject, and a sport into local and national prominence, had it not been In the first dual meet in University history, Geoffrey tradition was born. for the work of a 1910 University graduate, James C. Saeger, '12, wrestled Lehigh's first bout and lost a Success came almost immediately for Sheridan when Gorman, the sport's debut would have been delayed for decision to a Cornell grappler. Gorman, a 158-pounder, two of his wrestlers, Bob Suppes and Bob Watson, some time. became Lehigh's first winning wrestler when he posted gained individual titles in the Eastern tournament which Having been interested in athletics most of his early a victory in his match against the Big Red. Thirty the University had just joined. Although they progressed life, Gorman decided at the age of 16 that he favored minutes later, Henry Cox, '13, posted the University's rapidly in their newly-found sport, with respect to the wrestling above his other activities and joined the Bal first fall. Eastern tournament they remained on the outer edge of timore Athletic Club to fulfill his ambition to become That season, Lehigh lost to Cornell and Navy, while the winner's circle until 1927. In that year, Lehigh shared an accomplished grappler. Through the coaching of posting victories over Lafayette, Cornell and Princeton its first EIWA title with Yale University. Maryland University football player and wrestler, Mickey and losing to Cornell and Penn State the following year. The Sheridan reputation had begun to spread and poten Whitehurst, Gorman placed second in the Maryland The win over archrival Lafayette marked Lehigh's first tially outstanding grappiers from across the country Amateur Championships in 1901. dual-meet victory in history. began to migrate to Lehigh in greater proportions than A year after Gorman entered Lehigh in 1906, he and Then Gorman graduated, and the following year Sheridan ever before. There they met the man behind the myth, Lehigh's matmen struggled for 20 years before gaining their first individual NCAA champion. In 1930, 118-pounder John Engel turned the trick. Three years later, 155- pounder Ben Bishop earned the second, and in the process became the first Engineer to win the outstanding wrestler award. Since then, the wrestlers have garnered 11 more individual NCAA championships, five under Billy Sheridan and eight more under Gerry Leeman. But only two Engine ers, both Leemen, have captured multiple NCAA titles. Ed "Ike" Eichelberger (right) was the first, wrestling his way to the 147-pound championship in 1955 and 1956. As a senior Eichelberger copped three "seconds:" his second EIWA title, his second EIWA out standing wrestler award and his second NCAA title. He also won the Fletcher Trophy for his performance during three years in Eastern tourneys. Mike Caruso was the second to win a second. Last year Caruso became the first Lehigh sophomore to win a National title, wrestling at 123 pounds. In two years as a varsity grappler, Mike has only lost one bout, that to Army's Bob Steenlage, but he avenged the loss in this year's NCAA tour ney. Centennial Issue Page 31 pions and a future place-winner in the World Gaines on Continued his way to the University's ninth NCAA individual title. Sheridan died of leukemia the following year at the age of 74, having attended his last wrestling event two months before. He was at mat-side for the EIWA tour nament at Princeton University when the Engineers placed third. From his wheelchair, the aging master WRESTLING: warmly congratulated Thad Turner, Lehigh's only titlest that year, after he had won his first of two 167-pound crowns. Leeman's only undefeated season followed two years The Lehigh Religion later. In 1963, the Engineers experienced the ups and downs that can be expected in any sport. Syracuse smothered Lehigh, 23-6, marking the worst defeat ever administered to a Leeman team; the Engineers won their 100th meet for Leeman; and Kirk Pendleton won his and formed some of the best Lehigh teams in its history. deliver a short address to the nearly 200 boys attending 35th straight dual meet victory, becoming the first In 1928, the Engineers had a 7-1-0 record and won the the two-week event. wrestler in Lehigh history to end his career undefeated Easterns. The following year, in addition to its third Most of the clinic participants had heard cf Sheridan and untied in dual-meet action. He later won his third straight EIWA title, Lehigh wrestled its first unbeaten before they came to the clinic, but very few knew much EIWA 157-pound title, his second EIWA outstanding season, winning eight meets. more about him than his name. wrestler award and his first NCAA crown after two Two years later, the Sheridan crew added a second However, when Lehigh's new coach Gerry Leeman second-place finishes. unbeaten year with seven victories and annexed another introduced the small, graying man, the crowd would Recently, with the arrival of a "new breed" of tournament title. Three grapplers took individual titles respond with an ovation similar to those givenSheridan's Packer grapplers, paced by Mike Caruso, Bill Stuart and that year, but the more significant feat was accomplished 41 teams at 313 dual meets. The audience would applaud Joe Peritore, Lehigh has shown signs of shifting its following the Eastern tournament, when John Engel Sheridan's genius and the tradition he was entrusting wrestling emphasis from the Easterns to the Nationals, captured Lehigh's first NCAA title while wrestling at to Leeman. After 100 years of existence as a University, Lehigh 118 pounds. Five years after Leeman had taken over the coaching looks upon Gorman and Lynch as the originators of In 1932 and 1933, Lehigh added two more unbeaten chores, the Engineers had a combined 42-11-1 record wrestling and Sheridan as the man who gave the Uni years with 7-0-0 and 9-0-0 records, respectively, and but had finished in the third spot in the Easterns each versity its wrestling tradition and established it as a in 1933 finished first in the Easterns for the fourth of those years. After a 10-1-0 record in 1959, Lehigh power in the East. And it also looks upon Leeman, not straight time. That year, Ben Bishop won the NCAA broke the spell and gave Leeman his first EIWA title. only as the inheritor of the Sheridan tradition, but also 155-pound crown and became the first Lehigh wrestler That was the year in which Lehigh's three-time Eastern as the man who could possibly lead Lehigh to a national to win the outstanding wrestler award. In 1934, although champ, Ed Hamer defeated two former national cham prominence equal to that which it now enjoys in the East. the Engineers had their 22-meet winning streak snapped by the New York Athletic Club, they won their fifth straight EIWA title. , Two more undefeated years followed soon thereafter in 1939 (9-0-0) and in 1942 (8-0-0). Following the war ^^B years during which the tournaments were dominated by \ the Army and the Navy, Lehigh started the 1946 season [T«^'M™ with a 40-0 victory over Brooklyn College. I The score, which resulted from falls in all eight weight classes, represents the highest point total ever produced by a Lehigh team in one meet. However, several weeks later, eventual national champion Cornell ^fl of Iowa handed Lehigh a 36-0 defeat, the worst ever suffered by an Engineer squad. Bill Stuart, 1965 Six years later, Lehigh posted a 5-5-0 dual meet Eastern and National record; George Feuerbach won his third Eastern title ^ j Champ and 1966 team captain is turning over and was named the tournament's outstanding wrestler; ^jt^ ET Rutger's Gunnar Askeland and Billy Sheridan retired. (^ , J with a Navy ride, preparing After his retirement, the University began an annual 8l / H ^^^yflj for another pin at last summer wrestling clinic for boys between the ages of year's Easterns. Kirk 9 and 19. Each year, Billy would attend the clinic and Pendleton (above right) took his time before pinning Yale's Bob Hannah in 1962. Pendleton, a three-time Eastern and once NCAA champion, was well-known for showing his opponents the lights. "Snakepit." That's what wrestlers, coaches and referees call Grace Hall and the thousands of screaming afic ionados who bulge the walls with noise and bodies. These fans have booed referees, heck led, stomped their feet and tossed crumpled cups and programs onto the mat for more than half a century. Last year Sports Illustrated reported: "Once wedged in, the 3,800 lucky ones seem determined to prove that they can make enough noise to peel the paint off the ceiling. They become a stomping, hand=clapping, chanting, howling mob, and it takes a wrestler with strong ear drums and iron concentration not to crack. There is even a tradition of terror. Some years ago a Navy wres= tier complained that a girl fan seated near the edge of the mat kicked him in the head." Page 32 The BROWN and WHITE The Lafayette Rivalry By BOB BACHMANN upon the college to pay $52 for 11 brown and white Beat Lafayette! jerseys." This is the cry as Lehigh men look forward each Confident that what they did not know about the game November to the Big Game, hoping and confidently was not worth learning, they challenged Lafayette. They predicting that they will crush the enemy. soon discovered that there was a great deal more work The bonfire, the parade to the Moravian girls' dorms, needed. the pep rally, the campus raids—all these combine to The following year, they were not much more success make up the one event that most Lehigh men will never ful, losing 34-4. However, Davis scored Lehigh's first forget: Lafayette Weekend. touchdown, then worth four points. The rivalry dates back to October 25, 1884 when Lehigh gridders did not taste the sweetness of victory Lafayette overwhelmed the engineers 50-0. Lafayette until 1887 when an experienced eleven downed the Leop still holds an edge in the series 59-37-5 although the ards 10-4. campus and removed the banner without a struggle. Packers have been closing the gap in recent years. The series has survived numerous outbursts of vio The reaction was rapid. The Engineer supporters Lafayette has not won a game since 1959, their best lence by overzealous students of both schools, notably pursued the invaders in a caravan of cars that suppos effort being a 14-14 stand-off in 1964. in 1933 and 1959, to become the most played intercol edly wound Route 22 for miles. Richard Harding Davis, who later gained fame as a legiate football rivalry in the nation. At Lafayette, an egg-and-fruit-throwing assault was sports writer, war correspondent, novelist and play The 1933 incident occurred after "the raid to end begun that required two fire engines and Easton's wright, organized and led Lehigh's first football team in all raids" was staged by Lafayette. The men of Taylor "finest" to quell. When the dust settled, the final tally that initial encounter. Hall phoned Lafayette and dared the Leopards to try to showed: 29 jailed, 56 suspended, $207 in fines. According to Davis, only three undergraduates had take the " Beat Lafayette" banner that was hung in the The 1959 uprising resulted in the entire Lehigh student played the game before and " in the first match with Taylor quadrangle. Their challenge was soon met. body being placed on special disciplinary probation. Lafayette the other men learned what little they knew After numerous false alarms, the Lehigh men retired of it in three weeks of practice." for the night content that their banner was safe. To their Tempers first flared at the traditional tug-of-war Davis wrote that he and his teammates "prevailed dismay, 125 Maroon men descended on the sleeping held between the Lehigh and Lafayette freshman classes on the Friday before the Big Game. The tug was annually held as part of the half-time activities at the game between the frosh squads of the two schools. The Lehigh men got off to a quick start in the strength test, dragging the rope and the struggling Leopards to one end of the field and tying the rope to the goal post. The frail post soon gave way and the Lafayette men dragged the rope to the other end of the field and tried a similar stunt. Emotions erupted and the tug degenerated into a crab-apple throwing battle with ammunition supplied by a near-by tree. Although the battle resulted in the destruction of both goal posts, 2 flagpoles and a baseball scoreboard, this was just the preliminary encounter. The main bout was yet to come. A bloody riot at the varsity contest the next day brought about a "thorough re-examination" of the rivalry and weekend activities. J.D. Leith, dean of students, announced that discontinuation of the tug-of-war would be the first step to curb the " rowdy and damaging misbehavior of the students." The excitement began at Taylor Stadium during the first quarter. Engineer fans tossed a barrage of pears at players and officials after a questionable gain by a Lafayette player in which one of the officials unwit tingly blocked potential tacklers from the ball carrier. At half-time, a Lafayette student "borrowed" the hat of a Lehigh bandsman. Several hundred frosh attemp The 1959 Lafayette game had more than the usual uprising. As a result the entire ted to retrieve the headgear and numerous fights broke University was placed on disciplinary out. probation. The frosh fought at their game, In the melee that followed, the Lafayette band was there were fights before the big game, attacked, seven hats were stolen and a coronet and fights with officials, the band and the goal trumpet smashed. posts. There were dozens of concussions, With one minute to go in the game and Lehigh on the broken bones and bruises, __ short end of a 28-6 score, a free-swinging battle Centennial Issue Page 33 The 1884 Football Team was the University's First. In 1888, Lehigh gridders were the champions of Pennsylvania. erupted at the goalposts where more than 700 students the rule. In 1950, Lehigh completed its first unbeaten their own version of a " sit-in" on the New Street from both sides were ready for action. season with a 38-0 triumph over the Leopards. As a Bridge after their Moravian visit. After tying up traffic When the situation calmed down, more than two dozen result of an Arcadia petition approved by University for more than half an hour on each occasion, the police people required treatment for a variety of concussions, President Martin D. Whitaker, contingent on victory and dispersed the groups only to find the bridge strewn fractures and lacerations. Innumeral others suffered observance of the peace pact, the University was given with paper, rocks and beer cans. cuts and bruises from wild fists and broken bottles. a day off for celebrating. Building and guarding a bonfire has long been a Over $700 in Lafayette band equipment was destroyed. tradition at both schools. The challenge of trying to Preparations for the Big Game, the bonfire, pep On the recommendation of Arcadia, Dean Leith placed kindle the enemy woodpile has stirred the minds of rally and pajama parade have all developed into trad the entire school on disciplinary probation. However, many imaginative students. The most recent success itions. Although the fire and rally always instill tre he went one step further and really hit home with a was in 1957 when members of the class of '61 set the mendous desire and enthusiasm, nothing seems to top declaration that alcoholic privileges at all social func Lafayette pile ablaze. the journey to Moravian for unusual occurrences. tions would be denied for an indefinite period. In 1940, three over-zealous freshman climbed the The task of finding fuel for the fire has traditionally Lehigh men, long known for their ability to consume balcony to talk to the Moravian coeds. When it was been the job of the freshman class. The problem was alcoholic beverages in vast quantities, heaved a col time to leave they decided to use the more conventional easily solved in 1935 when signs and markers of all lective sigh of relief when the ban was lifted just three stairway exit rather than climb back out the window. types disappeared throughout Bethlehem. days later due to pressures exerted by student governing As they decended the stairs, they were confronted by In 1964, demolition of the wooden structure that bodies, particularly the Interfraternity Council. the housemother. Although obviously upset, she let formerly housed the education department provided a Efforts to keep the peace on Lafayette Weekends them pass. perfect source of fuel. Many Lehigh students saw have been frequent, although often ineffective. In 1926, something symbolic in burning the education building the first of several peace pacts was signed by the As they were just about out the door, they were met on Lafayette Weekend. student governing bodfes of the two schools. The truce by the president of the college who seemed to take a dim In recent years, many unsolicited "haircuts" have was kept until 1927 when marauders from both schools view of their entire escapade. He locked them in a room, been administered to deserving students of both schools. daubed buildings and statues on both campuses with questioned them and then called the police. Moments A shiny noggin sporting an " LU" or " LC" brand can paint. later when the president was distracted by another usually be detected at the game. Another peace pact was signed in 1938, only to be disturbance, the frosh unlocked the window, climbed But the students who are relieved of their head foliage broken in the same year. A total of 10 students were out and " ran like hell because we were scared as hell." are not always so deserving. In 1957, several Lafayette arrested for "extra-curricular activities." " barbers" pounced on an unsuspecting student sleeping Four Lafayette students were caught by police as The year 1946 was another good one for the in Richards House. He promptly received a complete they were scaling the walls of Taylor Stadium carrying silk-seekers. More than 50 pa jama-clad freshmen forced scalp treatment. a goal post. They spent the evening in the Bethlehem their way into the Moravian woman's dormitories. The game each year always has a big play or turning city jail. Six Lehigh men carrying pails of whitewash Before the riot could be controlled, rooms were strewn point that will never be forgotten by those present. were arrested in Easton the next day as they were with paper, pictures were torn from walls and girls Probably the most fantastic play of the entire series preparing to redecorate Lafayette's Fisher Field. were running wildly in the hallways. was the legendary run of "Snooks" Dowd in the game Misbehavior on the big weekend has not always been In each of the last two years, the frosh have staged of 1918. According to some observers, Dowd was hit hard at the line of scrimmage and apparently lost his sense of direction. He ran the wrong way and circled his own goal posts before realizing his error. He then reversed his field and ran 100 yards for the game winning score. Other sources place Dowd's run at anywhere from 49 to 210 yards. His feat was reported in the 1940 issue of Ripley's Believe It or Not. Undoubtedly, Lehigh and Lafayette alumni could tell numerous other stories about their 82-year-old rivalry, both on and off the field, that would fill many other volumes of Mr, Ripley's famous collection. Mike Semcheski, captain of the '61 grid team, holds Lehigh's second Lambert Cup as These two Lehigh students tried to ignite the Lafayette President Harvey Neville and Victor Lambert look on. bonfire. Page 34 The BROWN and WHITE New\brk World-Telegram V / The 1950 football squad was the best in Lehigh's history, the only undefeated one. Delaware, Case, Bucknell, Gettysburg, Dartmouth, Rutgers and Muhlenberg went down handily. Then came the last game with traditional rivals, Lafayette. The Engineers swamped the Leopards in every department, 38-0. The wildly happy, undefeated, untied team left the field on shoulders, right beside the goal posts. 82 Years of Engineer Football By PETER LITTMAN both Ivy League co-champions, Harvard and Columbia. Rutgers quarterback in the game's final seconds to in The score was 14-14 and time was running out for Perhaps the greatest thrill of the season, besides sure a 21-18 Lehigh win, and his 30-yard run with a Lehigh's football squad. This was the 97th meeting be Larko's last-second field goal, was Charley LaMotta's fumble against Carnegie Tech for his only touchdown. tween the Engineers and Lafayette, and Bill Leckonby 92-yard touchdown run with an intercepted pass that These and many other great teams and players have in his last year as coach, wanted to finish his career on downed a strong Colgate squad, 20-15. appeared through 82 seasons of Lehigh football. Right a winning note. The only era in Lehigh football which ranks with from the start, in 1884. the Engineers provided excite With only six seconds remaining in the game, enough Leckonby's reign was the nine years from 1912-1920 when ment and thrills on the gridiron. for only one play, the Engineers had the ball on the La Tom Keady was head coach. From 1884 to 1891, students coached football, and fayette 17-yard line. Leckonby sent in Andy Larko to Keady came to Lehigh from Dartmouth, and in his they compiled a 40-28-5 record for the eight seasons. attempt a field goal. The Taylor Stadium crowd was nine years, he produced 55 wins, 22 losses, and three The first season was an all-losing one, as the Engineers buzzing with excitement as the ball snapped. Larko ties. Although none of his teams ever went undefeated, dropped decisions to Rutgers, Haverford and Lafayette approached. The ball wobbled into the air, and just he ranks as the only Lehigh coach who never had a losing twice. made it over the uprights. Lehigh had a 17-14 win, and season. But then in 1885, against Rutgers, the Engineers came Leckonby ended a successful 7-2 season. His best season was in 1914, as the Engineers lost through with a 10-T) win, for the first victory. The teams only to Yale in an 8-1 campaign. " The Wrecking Crew," kept improving, and in 1888. the squad finished with a It was a perfect end to Leckonby's 16-year career as as the 1914 squad was called, was led by George Hoban, 10-2 record. The ten wins of that season remain as the head coach. His reign ranks as the most successful of and is considered the second best in Lehigh annals. most ever recorded by a Lehigh football team The sea any period in Lehigh football history. It included the only But the 1917 squad, which finished 7-2, ranks close son included two wins over archrival Lafayette, 6-4 and undefeated season in 82 years of football, and two Lam behind. That year, Keady met into the final Lafayette 16-0, a 74-0 rout ol Bucknell, and a 32-0 deleat of Penn bert Cup teams. game with a 6-2 record, and a win would make it a suc State. The only losses were to Princeton and Pennsyl 'The 1950 squad was the best ever. Halfbacks Dick cessful season. The game turned out to be the greatest vania, the two Ivy League powerhouses ot the era. Doyne and Dick Gabriel, and All-American guard Bill humiliation of Lafayette, as the Engineers rolled over But the squad of 1889 is probably the best remembered Ciaravino led the Engineers to nine straight wins. The their arch-rivals for 12 touchdowns and a78-0win. Buzz of the early years. The team earned the titlo ol' the squad knocked off Delaware, Case, Bucknell, Gettys Herrington and Vic Wysocki went for four touchdowns "iron team" of Lehigh football in compiling an 8-3-2 burg, Dartmouth, Rutgers, Muhlenberg, Carnegie Tech, apiece, and Al Maginnes added two to the romp. record. Included among its accomplishments were wins and Lafayette to turn in the only spotless record in Lehigh Of all the greats who played for Keady. Pat Pazzetti over Navy, John Hopkins and Virginia on successive days, history. ranks as the best. He ran, passed and kicked the En and a 106-0 embarrassment of Penn State. The 106 Leckonby was named Pennsylvania " Coach of the Year" gineers to a 902 record in 1912, and he was named All- points remain a Lehigh record which will probably never as well as " Little All-American Coach of the Year" that American along with Jim Thorpe and nine Ivy League be broken. year. Then in 1957, when he won the Lambert Cup, em standouts. Much ol the success of these early years is credited blematic of Eastern small-college supremacy, Leckonby Perhaps Pazzetti's greatest game was against La to Richard Harding Davis, who played on the 1884 squad, was named top coach in the east. fayette. The Engineers squeaked out a 10-0 win that day, and to Jacob S. Robeson, who is identified as the The 1957 squad, led by Danny Nolan, who was a Little and Pazzetti accounted for all the scoring with a touch " father of football at Lehigh. " It was mainly due to the All-American quarterback, lost only to V.M.I, in nine down pass and a field goal. He ranks as Lehigh's only efforts of these two men that football began and con games. representative in the National Football Foundation of tinued on South Mountain. The 1961 team, Leckonby's last, captured the Lambert Fame at New Brunswick, N.J. Davis scored the first Lehigh touchdown in the 1884 Cup again, becoming the first school to win the honor Besides Pazzetti, Lehigh's only other major All- loss to Lafayette, after he and Robeson had organized twice. This squad was led by Lehigh's Mr. Inside and Mr. American was Ciaravino in 1950. He was honored by the the team. Later Davis was to gain fame as a sports- Outside, fullback Boyd Taylor and halfback Pat Clark, United Press as a defensive All-American to rank as writer, journalist, war correspondent and novelist. He and a strong line including Reed Bohovich and Mike the top lineman in Lehigh history. He was the leader of died prematurely in 1916, but the legend of Richard Hard Semcheski. the line which helped produce the undefeated season. ing Davis and the game which he started at Lehigh lives The squad was especially notable because it defeated Ciaravino's greatest moments were his tackle of the on in the school's centennial vear. Centennial Issue Page 35 The Dog Caper Dogs have long been a part of the Lehigh family. They mooch, fight with each other, attended classes and are friends to the student. One of the earliest canine Engine ers was Clarence, who was painted decorously on special occasions, particularly Lafayette Weekend, and upon his death,was interred in the Taylor Hall quad. But it's not always a dog's life. Like back in '59, when the canines faced the possibility of being picked up for vag rancy. At least that's what the letter said. The letter, signed by then Associate Dean of Students Preston Parr, explained that unless the fraternity dogs got I. D. cards, they would be among those rounded up in the dog catcher's three~day program. At the appointed hour, the brothers, dogs in tow, arrived at Parr's office in the Univer sity Center. Parr examined the letter, eyed the dogs and decided, "Gentlemen, I've been had—in public." Meanwhile, at least two houses took their pets to I. D. photographer Al Bodner, who after inspecting the letter "It looked all right" photo graphed Phi Delt's Phido and Sigma Nu's Scout. Scout proved something less than cooperative, falling a- sleep while Bodner sought to set the pose. "He realized all along that it was a hoax," his master explained. Dogs that smart are sure to remain in the family. Throughout Lehigh's history, the sedan below, which was discovered engineers, when in a fun. mood have on the steps of the Centennial displayed a propensity for putting things Houses several weeks ago. Earlier where they don't necessarily belong. In in the semester, a VW somehow got /906, for example, several seniors parked on the front steps of Phi Gam. pursuded a cow, not just into Packer Hall, but up the stairs into the Several years ago, when every President's Office, then located in the one else was shuffing people into bell tower. phone booths and VW's, the Pi Lams were riding in the big commercial In 1922, the students contributed clothes dryers (below left). The ride $1 apiece to purchase a new Ford for was called ''orbiting," and the Bosey Reiter, long-time head of the record number of orbits was department of physical education. Not reportedly 35. The "astronauts" content to just turn over the keys to would board the craft, insert their the car which would replace his old bike, fare and off they'd go. . .until the the students dismantled the car and heat and rotation got the better of reassembled it in the gym. " It wasn't them. the gift but when and how I got it," commented Reiter. Of course you probably wouldn't In later years, dogs have been expect to find a student in a clothes found (right) inspecting the U. C. dryer, but then, when there's a crawl-spaces. And cars sometimes Lehigh man around, you can never be turn up in unexpected places, like the really certain what will turn up where. '•••:::•:•>><>:•: *****,. Page 36 The BROWN and WHITE Before the College Boards There were no College Entrance Examination Boards —How can the principal focal distance of a lens be in the 19th century, so Lehigh administered her own. determined experimentally? Some of the questions, as in arithmetic and geometry --A fore wheel of a carriage makes six more rev would be easy for today's students, but some others olutions in going 120 yards than does the hind wheel; might pose a problem as to whether overall entrance if the rims of the fore wheels are increased one-forth, requirements have really been raised. and those of the hind wheels one-fifth, a fore wheel will make but four more turns than a hind wheel in going Below are reprinted some of the questions from the same distance. Required the size of each. entrance examinations given to the class which began --Show that in a continued proportion the sum of any in September of 1892. number of antecedents is to the sum of corresponding —What is Invention and how is it related to Arrange consequents as any antecedent is to its consequent: ment and Style? Write an essay of at least 200 words also that two quantities whose product is constant are on Macaulay's Development of the Character of Lord reciprocally proportional. Clive, --A person insured his house for three-fourths its --Define rhetoric, style, diction, solecism, tautology. value at 40 cents per $100. paying a premium of $75.50. --Name the motions of the earth, state proofs and What was the value of his house? what they cause. --What were the first settlements in Connecticut, and --What causes (a) hoarfrost, (b) dew, (c) hail? whgn were they made? —Describe the electrical phenomena of the atmos --Give a short account of Bacon's Rebellion. phere. —Name the leading events of Grant's first term. —Derive the formula for kinetic energy. --What war was closed by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? What were the terms of the treaty? --A current of 20 amperes is passed through three --What body tries impeachments? What vote is nec wires placed parallel, having resistances of 4, 5, and 6 essary for conviction? What punishment follows The first graduating class ohms respectively. What is the combined resistance conviction? and how much current flows through each branch? How well did you do? Ohmigosh! " said Steck, and he put in a Three sergeants from the campus AFROTC hasty call to city firemen for a hook and detachment got roped in, but Prof John S. ladder. But Bethlehem's longest wasn't Steckbeck, 1958 Flagpole Day emcee, and the long enough. Finally, with much manuevering, Bethlehem fire department prevailed. a borrowed tree pruner, and to the On the morning of the annual event that accompaniment of titters, catcalls, and the year, the noncoms discovered a Nazi naval chant of "Firemen, Go Home" from students flag flying from the pole on lower campus and others, fireman Edward Broczkowski where Steck in less than four hours was to lead retrieved the pranksters' pennant in the nick the award ceremonies. of time. Attempting to replace it with Old Glory, At the close of the ceremonies, Steck the men found the early morning pranksters proclaimed triumphantly, ". . .it caused a nad rigged the rope lanyard and down it came lot of disruption. But we got it down!" around there their ears. mm :^ ,,:.*M Centennial Issue Page 37 When "Gus" Glicas opened his first shop, on the cor= ner of Packer Avenue and New Street, he sold groc eries to the neighbors and, from 1946 to 1958, when this store was torn down, more than 450,000 hot dogs to Le high students. Now he owns a luncheonette on Verona Street and still does a thriving business with the engineers from the hill, but if the Hall of Liberal Arts ever becomes a reality, he will have to move again. Choosing a College 100 Years Ago Moravian, Lafayette, Muhlenberg or Lehigh? By GLENN AIRGOOD from the Germantown area with the remainder coming perhaps the choice is somewhat easier. But let's take a from other nearby districts. One teacher sat at one end close look at what each school offers in the way Imagine yourself set back in time 100 years. You are of the large classroom, teaching mathematics. The other of courses. just out of school, and seeking a higher education. You at the opposite side of the room, taught the classics. The At Lafayette, first semester freshmen are required to want to go somewhere in the Lehigh Valley. Where do recitations usually lasted from 9 a.m. to noon and from take the Odes of Horace in Latin; Minora, Neilson's Ex you go? 2 to 5 p.m. ercises, Roman antiquities, mythology, ancient geography You've heard about Lafayette in Easton and that newly Moravian College and Theological Seminary was found all in Greek; and Euclid, the First Book, in mathematics. opened school near the banks of the Lehigh River in ed at Nazareth, Pa., on Oct. 2,1807.The plan for the es During the second semester you will have to take the Bethlehem, but what about some others. There's a theo tablishment of the institution states: " The purpose of this Satires and Epistles of Horace, Cicero's Orations, Roman logical school in Bethlehem, across the Lehigh river in institution, which is under the supervision and control of antiquities, all in Latin; Majora, Zenophon, Herodotus, the center of town. It's older than the rest of the schools the General Helpers' Conference of the Congregations in Thucydides, and Neilson's Exercise in Greek; Greek and has recently moved to Bethlehem from Nazareth, Pennsylvania and Adjacent Parts, is to train teachers for antiquities; and Euclids' Second and Third Books and where it was founded in 1807. the Boys' School, who may in due time be used in the Algebra to Simple Equations in math. A few miles west of Bethlehem, in Allentown, a new service of the Lord in the American congregations." If you decide to attend Moravian, you will be required theological school is being built. It should be ready to The plan indicates that the founders of the Institution to take Latin - Nepos, Sallust, Cicero's Orations, com open in the fall. It's been named Muhlenberg College had in mind the perpetuation of the distinctively Moravian position; Greek - Herodotus, Xenophon's Memorabilia, after its president and founder. ideals of education. These were the ideals which they had composition; mathematics - Loomis' Algebra and With the possibilities narrowed down to these four, brought with them from Europe. These men regarded edu Geometry; history; and rhetoric, during the freshman you decide to look into some of the historical background. cation, not as a thing to be sought for itself, but as a year. In 1824, Easton was not an isolated city in the middle means to greater perfection of character. Their schools At Muhlenberg, first-year studies are; Greek - Xeno of nowhere, but one of the larger cities in Pennsylvania. aimed, not simply at scholarship, but at enlightened phon's Anabasis or Memorabilia. Cyrpaedia, prose com In a single month, of 511 covered wagons, carrying more Christian manhood and womanhood. position, and grammar; Latin - Cicero's Orations, Livy, than 3,000 persons to new homes in the West, would pass Moravian Theological Seminary remained in Nazareth Odes of Horace, prose composition, grammar; and classi through town Down the LehighRiver were coming" arks" until 1858. The Synod that year decided to move the insti cal antiquities; German, grammar; and a German read bearing the first anthracite coal for the Philadelphia tution to Bethlehem. They purchased a building in Beth er; English - rhetoric, universal history, English liter market. It was a great place for a young man to seek his lehem which had been used previously as a boarding school ature; Composition and declamations throughout the year; education, in the heart of the "big city," for boys. It was remodeled at a cost of $10,000, and for and Mathematics - algebra and geometry. On Dec. 27. 1824, the citizens of Easton met to take mally opened on Aug. 30, 1858. Lehigh offers a broad survey of courses. First year steps to establish a college in their town. At that meet Lehigh University was established in 1865 by Asa freshman are required to take mathematics - Da vies' ing they decided that "as a testimony of respect for the Packer. A few years earlier, when Packer was consider Bourdon, Davies' Legendre, Plane and Spherical Trigon talents, virtues and signal services of General La Fayette ing establishing a University, he had in mind primarily ometry. Latin - Andrew's and Stoddard's Grammar, in the great cause of freedom, the said institution should a technical school catering to the youth of the Lehigh Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War; six orations be named, 'LaFayette'" Valley. of Cicero; Arnold's prose composition; Greek - Crosby's The students who first arrived at the new college with However, Judge Packer and his advisers eventually de Greek Grammar; preliminary lectures on physics; inor their teachers and the president's family, found more than cided to open the school to young men from the country ganic chemistry, Youman's and Fowne's Treatises; Eng schoolwork awaiting them. They found they needed to start at large. From the very beginning, Lehigh combined the lish studies - Weber's outline of universal history, phy building classrooms. traditional American college of liberal arts, the contin sical geography, Coppee's Elements of Logic, and com In April and May, strenuous efforts were made to trans ental university, and the new technical institute of position; French - Fasquelle's French course, transla form a farmhouse into Lafayette College. Including the university rank. tions from Chapsal's Literature Francaise and Rowan's addition, which was two stories high, the building contained Judge Packer felt that, in the years to come, the youth MOrceaux Choisis; German -Woodbury's method,writing eight lodging rooms, two schoolrooms and a shop. The of America would need more background in the arts and in the German letter, and conversation; drawing - the attic rooms and basement were used for workshops. The natural sciences. He saw how much easier his own career use of the pencil and pen in free hand drawing. building and alterations were completed according to would have been if he had had a formal education. With With this background information, your choice should schedule, and Lafayette College was ready for its first this in mind, he selected a tract of land on South Moun now be much easier. Perhaps you should go somewhere classes on the morning of May 9, 1832. tain overlooking the Lehigh River and founded a Uni else or not even go at all. With courses like that, what During the first term, the enrollment consisted of 67 versity. can you do. students and two teachers. Most of the students came Now that you've looked at the histories of these schools, Can you imagine what it will be like in 1966? Page 38 The BROWN and WHITE By GLENN AIRGOOD poems such as the following great romantic masterpiece: From time to time during Lehigh's one hundred years, A LOVELY SCENE there have been various attempts by students and mem We stood at the bars as the sun went down bers of the faculty to perfect organizations that would Literary Taste Behind the hills on a summer day; enable them to cultivate their literary tastes. Where some Her eyes were tender and big and brown; have failed others have succeeded, where some have died Her breath as sweet as the new-mown hay. others have been born, but with each attempt there has Improvement come experience, knowledge, understanding, and develop Far from the west the faint sunshine ment. Glanced sparkling off her golden hair; Those calm, deep eyes were turned towards mine, Tried Often And a look of contentment rested there. Some, like the Brown & White and the Epitome, caught I see her bathed in the sunlight flood- on, held tight, grew, and established a tradition. Others, I see her standing peacefully now: such as Endor, and the Bachelor, were conceived, fought, Peacefully standing and chewing her cud, floundered, and were pulled under. Success was depen As I rubbed her ears - that Jersey cow. dent upon one thing-student interest. And to capture this, each publication had to combine timeliness, originality, In 1891, a group of students banded together with the and organization into an orderly, readable and inex intention of publishing a true literary magazine. They pensive form. decided that if sufficient student and faculty interest could be raised, a magazine could be published four The first attempts were at best discouraging. The times a year. Called The Lehigh Quarterly, the magazine "Junto," the initial Literary Society, was established by attempted to publish almost exclusively from literary a Dr. Potter in 1866. It managed to survive for eight contributions of the Lehigh family. years, with constantly diminishing interest until all that was left was the list of officers in the first edition of the " The articles of The Quarterly will be chosen from Epitome. The second attempt was a more pretentious one. the contributions of the faculty, alumni and undergrad The class of 1883, when sophomores, established in their uates, wrote the editors. All articles will appear over own class an organization called The Lehigh University the writer's signature. As to the character of contri Literary Society. During its first year it published a neatly butions, the editors only require that they be readable. printed "Constitution and By Laws" covering 18 pages, Short prose writings, verse, and even translations, are but, during the summer of 1882 interest was lost, and it necessary as the more ambitious efforts. If The Quarter died. ly is to reflect credit on Lehigh, its contents must be that of a university publication in contradistinction to those In describing these early attempts, a Lehigh professor of a technical school. of the 1880's once stated, "It is to be hoped that the com ing student will be imbued with more pluck and self denial " In each number will be found a frontispiece. In choos- than his predecessors, and that we may arrive at the the originals the editors have remembered 'Honor be period where Lehigh can boast of a few institutions that fore Honors,' and first upon the list will be Lehigh's are of sufficient antiquity to have traditions." Unbeknown authors. The alumni department will contain, besides to him, a publication established in 1875 was already the notes, short sketches of interest, by Lehigh men. well on its way to becoming a Lehigh tradition. 'Waifs and Strays' will contain those enjoyable bits The Epitome was the result of a feeling on the part of that are never out of place. The editorials will be con the Class of 1875 that Lehigh should be represented in fined to those discussions at once pertinent and import its social aspect. It remained a sophomore class publi pointment through class elections to selection on the ant." basis of journalistic merit by a special board. This im cation until the Fall of 1884 when it was taken over by the The Quarterly was generally well accepted by the Junior class. proved the quality of the book by assuring that only the most qualified would direct the publication. student body. With each issue the editors learned the do's and don'ts of publishing and student interests, until From the first year the Eptitome began to grow from a the magazine shortly developed into a very creditable modest little publication into a volume which presently The first genuine attempt to establish a monthly stu publication. fills more than 500 pages. During its 80 years, it has dent periodical came in 1881. During the Spring of that year when the class of 1883 was carrying on with the assumed many shapes and layout styles. The early Epi Said the Burr: " The articles are of general literary tomes were small, moderately sized volumes composed "Literary Society," George Lehighton, '83, Charles C. Hopkins and John D. Ruff, both of the Class of 1882, and technical interest and the verse is fair, while the of equal writing parts, pictures and advertisements. The several illustrations liven up the pages." next year's saw the book acquire more and more pictures thought the time was ripe for initiating a campus news paper. After deliberation they determined that a certain Three years later, in 1894, campus literary and jour and ads and less and less writing until in the late 1920's nalistic interests reached their peak. With the establish it had become almost a picture book. " Board of Editors" should be chosen and that this board should elect its own successors, and thus insure per ment of the Brown & White, Lehigh had an unprede- dented four publications going at one time. In 1931 another change occurred whichushered in many manency as well as remove the paper from the control new changes in style. The publication responsibilities of classes or fraternities. Iri response to a general feeling which existed that were handed over to the Senior class. The volume be Lehigh should have a bi-weekly campus news publication, Their creation, The Burr, took the form of a part lit came longer, wider and thinner with writing assuming the first issue of the Brown & White appeared on January erary, part news magazine. As the first and the only stu a larger portion of the book. Ever present were the 16, 1894. In it, the editors stated their simple goals; "It dent publication until 1894, the Burr had to try to satisfy pictures of the graduating class, the fraternities, the will aim to put in the hands of its readers, promptly, everyone. It was published semi-monthly and consisted residence halls living groups and the athletic teams, all Lehigh news, together with facts of general interest of from 10 to 12 pages filled with ads, pictures, sports but now, histories of fraternities and seasonal sports with regard to other colleges. Special attention will be coverage, editorials, stories and poems. Its editorials reviews began to appear and each individual graduating paid to accounts of all gatherings of alumni and it is to be were aimed at campus problems, and many improvements class member had a paragraph or two summarizing hoped that this will bring the alumni and undergraduates stemmed directly from critical Burr editorials. Students his Lehigh career under his picture. into a much closer union." were encouraged to contribute their literary works and Selection of Epitome officers also changed from ap- the Burr often ended up with many excellent stories and Since its beginning, the Brown and White has grown ;•;•:•:•:•;•:•;•:-:•;•:•:•:•:•:•::;•:;:•::; .::-:::-xo;;::::::::::;x-:::; This photographer (the one with big black box) is trying to stop the action at a football game during the I890's at the University athletic field, which in 1914 was replaced by Taylor Stadium. Centennial Issue Pa: e 39 Literary Taste Improvement Attempted Often Continued- from a four-page paper to its present 12-page size. At first the paper split between alumni news and campus coverage. Sometimes as much as 75% of the news was devoted to alumni gatherings, but eventually this news almost completely disappeared from print. The 1941 Epitome boasted that the Brown and White as a member of the Intercollegiate Newspaper Associa tion of the Atlantic Stares, " has won more cups for sup remacy in news, editorials, and advertising than anyother member of the Association. The Brown and White is the only paper to have gained permanent possession of any of these cups." After the turn of the century, interest in campus pub lications began to die. And within the next few years the Burr died out. Its end came quietly, it had been suffering from financial problems as well as a lack of support and The Lehigh University Band as it appeared early in its existence, before Bethlehem Steel donated as the subscriptions began to tumble it was decided by its instruments. the editors to disband. The Quarterly suffered from the same symptoms. Since it relied heavily upon student and faculty contributions, lack of interest meant an early death. The Epitome and the Brown and White continued to University Musical thrive however, and even managed to survive throughout the First World War and the Depression. These years saw By NEAL ARLUCK Church graduated the orchestra folded. However, it had a reduction in the size of both, with the Epitome publishing become known to the student body. a smaller and sometimes supplemented volume. The histories of the band and glee club are inter At the start of the 1906 football season, George Baker, Nineteen-forty-one saw an attempt by a group of stu twined with Lehigh's kaleidoscopic musical development '07, stopped Ross on campus and asked, "Why don't dents to bring back the magazine format reminiscent of in which organizations have united, dissolved, and you fellows that play wind instruments get out and help the Burr and the Quarterly. Calling itself The Lehigh reunited in a great variety of combinations. the Cheer Leaders with the songs? They are having a Bachelor, the magazine attempted to present editorials, The glee club can be traced back to 1876 when it hard time of it this way." sports coverage, book reviews, movie reviews, campus enjoyed success for a short time, then suddenly died Following up on the suggestion, Ross decided to form news, short stories and poetry. Running about 25 pages, out as it split into several clubs and class quartets. a full band. About 15 men responded to a posted notice, seven issues were printed a year at a subscription rate The first official concert of the reorganized glee club and most had played in home town bands and owned of $,75. Attention was paid to many Lehigh problems in a was held May 12, 1884, under the direction of James H. their own instruments. With borrowed band music and series of articles which took the form of editorials. Wells, '85, as a benefit for the Tennis Association which meager contributions from the student body, they started then was struggling into existence. practicing in a room of the old Physics Lab. The most famous of these tried to explain the poor The local papers wrote, "The first concert of the Although improving, they needed to add the heavy football situation on campus. Written by members of the Lehigh University Glee Club was given in the Sun Hotel percussion of a bass drum, which they could not afford. team, Brown and White sports staffers and the Epitome Hall last evening to a fashionable audience. All lovers Ross got an idea and borrowed the Vortex Ring demonstra editors, several points-of-view were expressed and blame of good music who were not there missed a rare treat." tor. This was similar to an old fashioned wooden wash was placed on poor material, poor coaching by the fresh The concert was such a success that it was repeated tub, with a drum head stretched over the large end and man and varsity coaches, and lack of financial support the next month at Mauch Chunk, which was the first a three inch hole in the middle of the wooden bottom. for team members. time the organization traveled outside of Bethlehem. It was placed in a vertical position, filled with smoke The faculty contributed articles telling of their exper Despite its early popularity, the glee club lapsed and when the drum head was struck, a Vortex Ring of iences in other countries. Lawrence H. Gipson wrote on into a dormant state in 1885, and until 1890 its activity smoke shot out of the hole. "Enigmatic Ireland." and Dean Wray H. Congdon des was only sporadic. In that year, direction of the club "We tried it as a bass drum with high hopes," writes cribed "Chinese Education - 1940," Among the regular was undertaken by Dr. J. Fred Wolle, former leader Ross, "but after about two numbers we decided that features was Platter Prattle, a review of new recordings. of the Bach Choir. In 1900 the glee club and Mandolin the tone was such a dull, sickening thud, that we sounded A series of prints of Lehigh buildings done by Charles Club united to form the Lehigh University Musical much better without it." Thompson were run. Association, The band's first important non-football presentation The founding of the Lehigh Band in 1906 is affection came on April 28, 1908. On that day, Andrew Carnegie, After three years of publication, the editors announced: ately recalled by its first leader, Edward E. Ross, '08, donor of Taylor Hall, came to dedicate the building with "The Bachelor closed its third year as a publication this in his article "Confessions of a Band Leader." Previous appropriate ceremonies, which included music by the spring with the decision to susj>end publication for the to 1906, Lehigh usually hired the Allentown Band on band and glee club. duration because of a depleted staff and predictable fin special occasions for the cost of about $200. Band uniforms, not worn until then, were a necessity ancial uncertainties." During 1905, Herbert A. Church, '05, formed a small and President Drinker quickly raised $200 from the Immediately after the war ended, an attempt was made University Orchestra of about 10 men. Ross was alumni. From Wannamaker's in Philadelphia he purchased to bring the Bachelor back into print. It was decided that trombonist. They played a few engagements, but when white duck trousers, white sport shirts, white duck the name should be changed to The Lehigh Goblet. The editors stated their purpose of publishing a magazine " strictly for the Lehigh student." Aside from the title, ~ln 1961, Mustard and Cheese the Goblet was identical to the Bachelor. The editors celebrated their 75th anni were enthusiastic, but their enthusiasm was short-lived. versary by performing "The Interest in the magazine became almost nill after the Streets of New York" in Brou- first few issues, and in the spring of the following year ghal Junior High School Aud the editorial page carried the Goblets' obituary. itorium. It had all begun at 8 p.m. Friday, April 10, 1885. "We cannot work, for example, with the man who, in Then the Hall of the Sun Inn answer to a phone call during the preparation of this in Bethlehem was filled to issue, now twenty days ago, requesting his presence capacity for the compined pro for a photograph, stated he was on his way and has not gram of dramatic and musical arrived yet. We cannot work with the man who was given entertainment—the second con cert of the glee club and the an art assignment in the beginning of October and who first public performance of the lias not been seen nor heard of since. We cannot work with Mustard and Cheese Drama the man who was requested he be made an important tics Club. As early as 1884, department head and who disappeared from sight until a small group led by Richard the magazine went to press, when he called to ask how Harding Davis, '86, had met things were going. regularly in the back room of Renning's bar—for conversa " A student publication should be operated by students, tion, beer, and sweitzer but students with a sense of responsibility." cheese and mustard. Early in Since that time only two publications have survived, 1885. the group produced the Epitome, largely because it has become a tradition, "Mary, the Child of Misfor and the Brown and White. tune" for a campus audience, Perhaps that Profs remark is just as timely today but the April 10 production as it was 75 years ago. Maybe the coming student will of "Love and Money" was be "imbued with more pluck and self-denial than his the first "official" prodiic- predecessors." _tion" Page 40 The BROWN and WHITE In March, 1962, the Glee Club made the first of its concert trips to Puerto Rico during spring vacation. The club was the guest of the University of Puerto Rico for two days, and was hailed for its performances across the island. One Puerto Rican paper called it "a polished, cordial and confident group who were enjoying the dual satisfaction of precision work and of bringing pleasure to others." The dream of every musician was realized by the Concert Band in 1963 when it performed in New York's Carnegie Hall in a joint concert withColumbia University. On Oct. 4, 1964, the band played a special concert before 2,000 persons at the Tiparillo Pavilion of the New York World's Fair. The next day the musicians traveled to Yale to cheer the Lehigh football team on to a 54-0 defeat. In reporting the day's events, the Hartford Times said, "Band honors for the afternoon went to a smartly uniformed Lehigh, which put on a marching performance rarely seen at the Bowl. It was the first time a band has been given a standing ovation there .. .Second big applause of the day came when it was announced over the public address system that the Mets were leading the Cards 15-4." An interesting story, which demonstrates the high degree of excellance the glee club has achieved, concerns In 1899, Mustard and Cheese presented a three- the performance of "Carmen" given in McKeesport. act comedy, "The Gutta Percha Girl." Several of as Lehigh Trustee Robert Farnham, seated third Pa., before the presentation at Lehigh. The concert the cast were to win fame, but not as actors, such from the righ t. was given with the McKeesport Symphony Orchestra Development Kaleidoscopic under the direction of MihailStolarevsky, principal cellist outing hats and seal brown flowing ties. These items For that period the band was directed by Robert Boudreau of the Pittsburgh Symphony. comprised the band's first official uniform. and the Glee Club by Prof. George L. Gansz. At one point in the opera, at the close of the Gypsy The band boasted 21 members in 1910, but the total The year 1954-55 witnessed the first performance by Song, the orchestra plays a crashing 'E'. The chorus dropped to 10 by 1914. During World War I the group the Band of their "Marching Lehigh," and a special must then come in. unaccompanied, on -G'to begin the suspended activities. After the war, it began an even concert by the Concert Band in honor of John Philip next section. Recognizing the difficulty of this maneuver. more active schedule than before, following a complete Sousa. Guest soloist for the concert was Berthold Cutler and the glee club had drilled feverishly until reorganization under the leadership of Clyde R. Floy, Wavrek, former member of the Sousa organization. the glee club could come in perfectly on the 'G' without '20, student director of 1919-20. Another major event of 1954 was the arrival of accompaniment every time. In 1920 the leadership passed to freshman Joseph Robert Cutler, now head of the department of music, At the rehearsal, the glee club was eager to show Recapito. Having studied music in Italy, Recapito was from New York University to lead the Glee Club. At what it could do. Anticipating trouble. Stolarevsky solo cornetist of the famous Bethlehem Steel Band and NYU he had held the posts of instructor in the depart suggested that the oboist cue the chorus by playing a leader of the Bethlehem Steel Orchestra. Under his ment of music, chapel organist, assistant conductor of Centennial Issue Page 41 5 From Eating Clubs to Nationals: Fraternity History The Sigma Nu entrance to Sayre Park early in this century. By BRIAN KANES Mt. Herman, Mass., banded together forming the Mt. Before the fall of 1952, the Rho Eta's began turning Herman Club, which became Theta Xi in 1904. the former residence of the late Dean Palmer into their Sayre Park is the magic word for Lehigh's Greeks The Seal Club, later the Lehigh Ivy Club, was founded living quarters. The Oct. 7 Brown and White notes during the University's centennial year. in 1924; by 1926 it became Zeta Chi, and in 1929, that they acquired 20 desks and an equal number of In the past few years, the Board of Trustees has Pi Kappa Alpha. After a national merger, Howard Hall chairs and bureaus from the Penn State Delta Chi chapter. adopted an aid program to assist the campus fraternities (Alpha Kappa Phi) became in the early 1930's, Alpha Four desks were turned into dining tables, and other enlarge and improve their houses, and it has resulted Sigma Phi. Lambda Chi Alpha began as a local named furniture was purchased from Chi Psi. The brothers mainly in the construction of many modern, and expensive, Delta Theta in 1922; three years later their petition hoped "construction of a bar in the cellar ... will be in new homes in Sayre Park. was accepted, making them the Gamma Psi Zeta chapter shape for the coming festivities of the football season." Only a few national fraternities still remain in town, of Lambda Chi Alpha. But, the 94th year of the existence of fraternities at and all of them are now planning hill houses. The year of 1884, when Richard Harding Davis started Lehigh was a big year for the Greeks in other ways, too. Some houses, however, such as Phi Kappa Theta, intercollegiate football at Lehigh and began the Lehigh- The Interfraternity Council accepted into its membership may regret the move inspite of the luxurious new Lafayette series, began a two-year period when more the 31st chapter at Lehigh: Tau Alpha Kappa. quarters, for in doing so, they will lose the distinction than half-a-dozen fraternities were established on of having "the longest bar on campus." campus. Among them were Delta Phi, Psi Upsilon, The TAK living group, formed in 1963 by students who Although Lehigh has maintained national fraternities Theta Delta Chi, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Chi, Sigma hadn't joined any other fraternity, was on the verge of for 94 years now, they were not always such beautiful Nu and Delta Upsilon. This was 19 years after the becoming extinct when, after three years of pleading residences. University received its charter, when the undergraduate with the University, they were given permission to become These modern social fraternities are decendents of enrollment was less than 300 persons. a local fraternity. Now known as Tau Alpha Kappa, they the scholarly religious brotherhoods of the Middle Ages, All these clubs which survived, soon became affiliated have also been given a voting seat in the IFC. the German fencing societies and the American eating with an established national fraternity. However in 1915, The recognition of TAK provides an interesting contrast clubs and social groups. They all manifest the basic a group of students in the Newman Club sought a means desire of students to band together for common interests. in the development of fraternity life at the University. of continuity for their group. Three of them went on The centennial year, 1965-66, wasalsotheyearof growth At Lehigh most of the fraternities were originally to found Theta Kappa Phi. After the first world war, it for Lehigh's older, more staid Greek letter societies, organized as dining clubs, debating societies or social amalgamated with a local Penn State College fraternity as indicated by construction activity of new chapter groups. Chi Phi, the oldest continuous national fraternity to become a national Greek letter society of Catholic houses by Pi Lambda Phi, Tau Delta Phi, Sigma Alpha on campus, began as the Calumet Club, a dining group, men. In 1959 it merged with Phi Kappa to form 60 Mu, Phi Kappa Theta, Alpha Tau Omega and Theta Xi. six years after the first classes started. They met above chapters of Phi Kappa Theta, the only national to be the Moravian Bookstore until the late 1880's when they founded at Lehigh, and the only one on this campus It was a hot year for Theta Xi, too. Early Sunday purchased the Sayre House on Wyandotte Street, where with a stated religious purpose. morning, Jan. 9, as 27 brothers slept, a pile of mattresses they began serving their own meals. This pattern continued on until 1952 when Rho Eta in the summer dorm caught fire. After two-and-a-half Sigma Nu, on the other hand, was started in 1885 local fraternity became affiliated with Delta Chi, and the hours in the nine-degree morning, Bethlehem firefighters by brothers who had transferred here from other chapters. University list of nationals reached the present number; brought the blaze under control, but the house was In 1894, 20 students from Mt. Herman Prep School in 30. completely destroyed, and along with it went many During the two declared wars this century has experienced, several frater nities almost went out of existence. All of them (there were 15 in 1910) suffered, as many brothers joined the fighting, and many lost their lives. At the left. Pi Lambda Phi was one of at least three others to be boarded up during World War II. The Army Specialized Training Pro gram students kept several houses go ing. Others combined for the duration, and many took in boarders. Page 42 The BROWN and WHITE personal belongings, including notes for the then- upcoming final examinations. The University and the 30 other fraternities pitched in, however, and soon the homeless brothers moved into Park House, recently vacated when Pi Lambda Phi moved into their new Sayre Park house. But this was not the first fraternity disaster in the University's history. In the summer of 1964 an 8-year- old Bethlehemite started a $10,000 fire in the same house. When Delta Phi was the St. Elmo Club in 1913, it too was destroyed by a blaze. Chi Psi's Sayre Park residence was lost to fire in the early 1940's, but the brothers rebuilt the house in 1941 on top of the ruins. One year later, in February 1942, everything but the brick walls of Phi Gamma Delta went up in smoke and flames. In 1963 the Sigma Chi living and dining rooms were destroyed, and a $15,000 blaze gutted Sigma Phi Epsilon's kitchen. Psi Upsilon, not content with a house-warming, invited Hurricane Carol in for a weekend. The roof was blown off the house as a result of her 1950 visit. During the two large-scale wars this century has experienced, several fraternities almost went out of existence. All of them (there were 15 in 1910) suffered, as many brothers joined the fighting and many lost their lives. At least three fraternities, Theta Delta Chi, Alpha Sigma Phi and Sigma Alpha Mu, disbanded during World War II. Sammy (Sigma Alpha Mu) had a house at 506 W. 3rd St", purchased by Alumnus Laurence Timan before the war. It was sold when they disbanded, and then Timan bought it again after the fighting ceased. The Army Specialized Training Program students kept several houses going, including Chi Psi and Sigma Nu. Theta Xi, on the other hand, moved in with Sigma Phi Epsilon for the duration. Kappa Sigma relied solely on local predecessor, Phi Theta Psi, got a house at 82 much for the man, because he bought the Theta Xi boarders to stay alive. Market St., near the Moravian Seminary, although records house, forcing them to relocate. Conditions were similar during World War I, when seem to indicate no one ever paid for it. During these 94 years, the fraternities have become Theta Delta Chi moved into the Bethlehem home of a Theta Delta Chi, another early town group, rented more than what they obviously are—a place for lodging, former house treasurer and Theta Xi was closed. Phi two rooms on the second floor of a private home on meals and sociability. Their less tangible virtues have Sigma Kappa moved in with Sigma Nu, and since Sigma Main Street for their meetings. They all lived in private become their most important ones: helping each member Phi Epsilon had only one brother, they too took in homes, and ate at a restaurant across from the meeting improve his personality; encouraging him to achieve his boarders. place. In 1888 they moved to a house at 237 New St., and best, and inculcating in each man the tolerance necessary Several fraternities over the years have served as then, in 1900, moved again for six years to 601 Delaware for living and working with others. hosts to their national organization's conventions in Ave. What's in the future for Lehigh fraternities? Will Bethlehem: Alpha Sigma Phi, Phi Kappa Theta, Sigma Before the Psi Upsilon house was built at the head of they revert to dining clubs under a Dart mouth-like plan? Phi Epsilon and Psi Upsilon. Brodhead Avenue, this was the site of a tavern where Will they become stronger and more numerous in the With these societies being here for so long, many the 19th century Lehigh men escaped tosmokeand drink, next hundred years? No one knows the future, but as loyalties have developed between the brothers and hired away from the watchful eyes of University officials. Assistant Dean of Student Life William L. Quay says, help. Bob Dixon, the Fiji cook, hasn't missed a day in One cause of all the moving around the early houses "Regardless of their specific characteristics in the future, the 29 years he has worked for Phi Gam. had to go through can be blamed on an early vice president I am confident that fraternal societies of Lehigh men will Seventy-year-old "Willy," the Beta Theta Pi "house- of the Bethlehem Steel Co. In the early 1920's, Theta continue to serve the University in the future as they boy," has lived in the 2-room "Willy's Castle" in the Xi's only neighbor was this VIP. Apparently it was too have done in the past." basement since he began his chores there in 1940. "Willy," William H. Johnson, never forgets alumni, their birthdays or anniversaries. Inter-fraternity rivalries have also characterized LINIOM umvonrv, Greek life at Lehigh through the years. Phi Gam and The last episode of SOUTH •ITNCINIM. Beta have, until this year, had a long-standing feud hazing at Lehigh, so we fACULTV KOOV. _ I* over the "Basic Rock." This year, however, Fiji's are told, took place, centennial pledge class buried it in the front of the above, in the 19th house in 1,500 pounds of concrete. century, although some ACTIO!! 07 THE FACUL7Y. JUNE 12TH, 1902. Countless stories, many apocryphal but, nonetheless of today's pledges may exciting, have been passed down from pledge class to disagree. A typical shot of the interior of '•'.'l.oreao, t.\o Faculty believes that it is lor the <;ood of pledge class. Pledge Milton Baldwin Bates, '13, was in an early hill house Delta Upsilon for some reason New Year's Eve, 1909, shows where, by ,v •'.'•esh'.ar. Class shut Pro.:hr;en be not allowed to Join Fra- when burglars entered the house. He defended the house "action of the until he was shot in the shoulder, making himself a -.•r.iit ies a:iu whereas many re-silent graduates Who have been faculty, June 12th, hero D.U.'s still brag about, but he flunked out before 1902" freshmen won't 3r.sul.t9d believe that it iff Tor the ,':ood of the University and the end of the semester. be allowed "until Lehigh fraternities were not always situated in Sayre after they have V z.\e '-YaterrJtier, that "^reslinen be net admitted to their or- Park. Originally all the fraternities, clubs and social registered and been groups had formed in town. Sigma Phi built the first enrolled as students itr.ir.ationa, therefore be it resolved: structure designed to be a fraternity house in 1888, 23 of the University." years after Asa Packer founded the University. Two years before the founding of Psi Upsilon, its 1. Fraternities are prohibited fron admitting men to r.e.ioers \in until after' trey have registered and been en rolled as student;", of the University. P. After Ju:n>ar;« list, 190w, nc atudent of the U;:j- vjrs.ity will be allowed to join a Fraternity, pledge him self tc ,%>ii; ;i Fraternity or live in a Fraternity house until after he shall have rassed all the work of the ftron1! rar v** u r • o. 7raterr.ities are prohibited from taking an;' action v.';>icr. will caur;e rules 1. and 2. to be violated. 4. 7h~ ?'ac;ilty requests that members of Fraternities ar.d all other students of the University will exert their influence to keep Fresh ion away from places where liquor is sold. Z. Viie Faculty sincerely hopes that the influence of Fraternities in favor of rjood scholarship and good habits nay be felt in a narked degree during the coning years by all the students of the University. 6. Copies of these rules shall be posted upon the bulletin boards and sent by the Secretary of the Facility to each college Fraternity in the Fethlehems and to mem bers of inccnin;; Freshman Classes beginning with the Class of 1907. A true copy, •C.t. vL Seoretary of the Faoul Centennial Issue Page 43 $»A*\:£ immismmw^^M mmmmm,'m lOOK»*C NORTH CA*T. A History of the Lehigh Valley By LYNN HAVACH region is populated primarily by descendants of these settlers sat a good deal farther north than they even Even kings have debts. And had it not been for the debt English, Welsh, and German immigrants. thought they would. of King Charles II of England, Lehighandits surrounding Just when things were really beginning to happen along Then the settlers added insult to injury. They disre land area, the Lehigh Valley, might never have been the muddy banks of the Lehigh River, William Penn died garded the agreement which said the northern boundary settled or even founded. in 1718. His three sons assumed control of the colony vould run from the spot where the settlers stopped More than 280 years ago, an aspiring young man by and the state of affairs was altered somewhat. Immigra iirectly east to the Delaware River. Instead, they care the name of William Penn received a 35-million-acre tion increased naturally, but it presented a somewhat fully laid the boundary northeast from the finishing point, tract of land as payment for a debt of Charles II. At that different character than that which existed before Penn's and managed to confiscate the majority of the best Indian time the payment appeared to Penn as one of dubious death. hunting grounds in the area. value. However, had he invested in the area and lived until The immigration process was still multinational and The entire transaction was appropriately labeled" The today, his profits from the Lehigh Valley region alone, multireligious, but the proportionate size of many of the Walking Purchase," and succeeded in embittering the not counting the rest of Pennsylvania which was also his, groups decreased with the arrival of large numbers of Delawares. In fact, it enraged them to the point of open would have made J. Paul Getty seem a pauper. Scotch-Irish and Germans. And with the German nation conflict with the settlers in scattered areas. The average size of farms in the region has grown from alities came the dominant religion in the Lehigh Valley region today, that of the Lutherans. In 1740, however, the Moravians began toarrive,com several acres to 102.9 acres; there are now 254 textile ing primarily as peacemakers and secondarily as coloni companies in the area: the population in Lehighand Nor The date marked as the beginning of the general in zers. As it turned out, they failed miserably as peace thampton counties alone has multiplied four times in the flux of settlers into the Lehigh Valley in 1730, although makers. It required both the colonial government and the last 70 years; and the population of the region's largest several exploratory and die-hard squatters probably had Iroquois Indian nation to force the Delawares to accept the city, Allentown, has expanded 330 per cent in the same lived in the region since 1715. The over-running of the results of the Walking Purchase. period. entire Valley began soon after German immigrants hung However, the Moravians proved, probably totheir sur Today, the land area of the Lehigh Valley is approxi out their shingles along the southern banks of the Lehigh. prise, to be excellent colonizers. They supplied a set of mately 721 square miles. The population isnearing400,- By 1733. a group of immigrants had moved north along values, a theory of organization, a number of different 000. The Delaware River forms the eastern border of the the Lehigh River and began farming in Egypt, a little skills, and an initiative which provided a great impetus region; the Blue Mountains border on the north; the divide community with no sand, no pyramids, or even downtown for the civilization. And there was no other group which formed by the lands drained by the Schuylkill River is Cairo fruit stands. had such a forceful influence on the Lehigh Valley region the western border; and South Mountain rises to border on as the Moravians, the south. Nineteen years after William Penn's death, the Dela The region has a river all its own, the Lehigh; a univer ware Indians became dissatisfied with the peace terms In a short six years, under the able leadership of Count sity " on the breast" of the southern border, along with a they had made 51 years earlier. They contended that the Zinzendorff, the group had begun setting two communities; number of other educational institutions; and a population settlers were encroaching on their land, as evidenced by one, intended as an agricultural center, was named Naza oriented, even today, toward the policies of Penn. the controversial treaty which put the northern boundary reth; the other, intended as a manufacturing center, was Penn was a Quaker, but an enterprising one. He believed of the settler land as far north of Wrightstown (near named Bethlehem. Meanwhile, the colonial government in religious tolerance, and, in order to encourage a popu Philadelphia) as a man could walk in a day and a half. established a third city, Easton, for economic and politi lation and economic increases in his colony, he allowed The Delawares said the boundary would be no farther north cal reasons. persons to freely practice their individual religions. than the Lehigh River and thus claimed the land north of The contrast between Bethlehem and Easton was strik Penn had to be a basically tolerant person, not only in the River, while the settlers believed the boundary could ing in that Bethlehem built many churches and schools, religious matters, but also because he actually purchased be extended as far north as the Blue Mountains, and they but Easton had, among its 40 buildings, only one Protes- the colony that was given to him. And he purchased it from therefore also claimed the land north of the river. , tant church -- and that was also used as a school. people who didn't even own it, just because he wanted to Since the original treaty or a copy could not be pro Out of foresight, the people of Easton built a wall maintain the peace. duced, it was decided that the actual walk should take around their jail, not to keep the criminals in, but to When Penn arrived in his colony, the Indians who re place to settle the conflict. In a style that would have keep the Indians out, for in 1755 the 8-year period of sided there (a strange cult known as the Lenni Lenapi or made old Penn blush with shame, the settlers resorted Indian wars began. But conditions were not all fighting, the Delawares), claimed they owned the territory. So to a wholly devious, yet effective plan -- at least from rationing, and bread-line waiting. It was during this period Penn paid them what they asked to prevent them from their standpoint. of strife that the Moravians made two social alterations riding their saddleless paints to the shore and burning The immigrants blazed the trail previous to the walk, which were important in the development of the region. the sails of his ships. hired several extremely swift walkers, and arranged The city of Allentown was also born. Nonetheless, his sanction of religious freedom hadun- provisions for them during the walk. The fleet-footed thought-of effects. It drew many nationalities which had Germans zipped through the forests along the prescribed The Moravians ended their tradition of unpaid labor suffered religious persecution. Today, the Lehigh Valley route, and by the time the 36 hours had elapsed, the and at the same time adapted their educational, welfare, Page 44 The BROWN and WHITE Back when the Le high Valley air was clearer, these scenes were evident. Above is a painting of Allentown in the 19th century; at the left is the old zinc mine quarry in Saucon Valley (today it is dried up); and to the right, some friends of Lehigh gather at the corner of 4th and New streets by a 1909 streetcar. Behind them is the New Mer chant's Hotel, one of the few landmarks still standing. It Began With a King's Debt and economic systems to the new policies of the expand mountains in search of anthracite coal, iron, zinc ore, By 1890, the population of Easton had increased to ing region. and slate, while others were building canals and rail 14.481 and Allentown, which became a city in 1867, had While these events were occurring, a man named roads. grown to 25,228. William Allen was operating a private hunting lodge along Ask any Pennsylvania-German and he'll tell you the The contemporary period in the Lehigh Valley began the Lehigh River for himself and his friends from Phila Industrial Revolution was a dreadful thing that destroyed in 1890. Scientific and technological advances continued; delphia. However, in 1762, an influx of energetic settlers people's ways of life. So what if it pushed the standard of the urban areas grew as more and more persons moved into the area of the lodge led to the beginning of the city living sky high, and multiplied the U. S„ population 5.91 to the cities to be nearer to the industries; and there was of Allentown. times. It was still dreadful, and the German was deter a greater emphasis on industrial organization and large The Indian wars brought the cities and their citizens mined to keep the revolution from burrowing too deeply ness. closer together in the interests of self defense and even into his Valley. tually the three cities may grow into one teeming met And he was doing a fairly good job until he woke up In 1904, an event precipitated by Charles Schwab, a ropolis. one morning and found out the revolutionaries had built 42-year-old retired president of the United States Steel a canal in the middle of his territory. Before he could say Corp., was eventually to put Bethlehem in a realm of The predominant nationality in the Lehigh Valley region or do anything about it, they had cracked a bottle of national prominence. had become the Pennsylvania Germans, erroneously, but champagne over one of its massive locks, a barge had Schwab organized a firm which he called the Bethlehem widely known as the Pennsylvania Dutch. By religion they floated through, and it had been named the Lehigh Canal. Steel Corp. By the end of the firm's " formative years" were primarily Lutherans or Calvinists and by occupation in 1915, the total assets were valued at more than they were mainly farmers. Agricultural activities had be The first outward sign of the Industrial Revolution in $145 million and the plants were operating at 97.3 per come the main occupation throughout the Lehigh Valley and the Lehigh Valley was the ugly coal barge. cent of capacity. Then Schwab, feeling his job was finish the country, itself. But after seeing a steady stream of men with shovels, ed, stepped down in favor of E. G. Grace. An analysis of the 1772 Lehigh Valley tax lists showed picks, and miner's hats marching past his window every Grace led the Bethlehem Steel to thepositionof second that 74.1 per cent of the taxable persons were farmers morning, the Pennsylvania-German resigned himself to largest steel producer in the United States. Today, it is with another 20.2 per cent employed as laborers, most of the fact that there must be money in the business. Slowly, said that South Bethlehem eventually will consist of two them probably working on farms. the Lehigh Valley began to split away from the rest of parts; Bethlehem Steel and Lehigh University. Four years later, in 1776, Allentown, Bethlehem, and the Pennsylvania-German culture, as it turned toward Meanwhile, Bethlehem came to be known as the Christ Easton were expanding. All three were trying to provide industry. mas City of the United States; Allentown's population living space for a combined population which today could By 1852, Pennsylvania had more than 1,000 miles of doubled in the 20 years from 1890 to 1910, then doubled be seated three times in Grace Hall for one Lehigh wrest railroad, but none of it lay in the Lehigh Valley. Realiz again in the next 50 years: and the Lehigh Valley took off ling meet. The tri-city total was 1375 people. ing that they needed a better method of transporting the on a rampant march into the future. The War of Independence, though none of its battles coal, cement, slate, and other ores than the canals pro were actually fought in the Lehigh Valley, had a great ef vided, the Lehigh Valley citizens began a railroad- World War II retarded the advance somewhat, but the fect on the region. It heightened the patriotic spirit of its building program. Valley continued at its conclusion with a concerted effort inhabitants, and changed the loyalty of the Pennsylvania- Thirty-eight years later, 1,855 miles of track had been to attract a more diversified sampling of industries to the Germans from either German or British to American. laid in the area, and the earnings of the Lehigh Valley area. After the war, and especially from 1790 to 1830, the Railroad Company stood close to $22 million a year. Probably the best example of this effort is Bethlehem's towns increased rapidly in size and population. In the newly-built Industrial Park complex wherein the city pro four decades after 1790, Bethlehem's average population As the railroads went, so went the total product output vides ample area for the location of new industries. increase was 26 per cent every 10 years; Allentown's the the Valley. The output of manufactures in Lehigh and was 36 per cent; while Easton's was an amazing 50 Northampton counties rose from close to $5 million in Besides this innovation, other industries have found per cent. 1850 to nearly $42 million in 1890. During the same their way to the area also. Although the majority of work period, the number of persons employed in industry rose in the area is still provided by the Steel Corp., such in Although the Lehigh Valley expanded greatly in popu from 3,419 to 19,539, and the Valley's population tripled. dustries as Pharmachem, producers of pharmaceutical lation, the region remained predominantly Pennsylvania- and chemical products, a large division plant of Western German, That is, until 1830 when a new type of man, known The Civil War, its battles and its influence, did not Electric, an Air Products plant, and two food industries, as the entrepreneur, started the Industrial Revolution in greatly affect the Valley. However, after it had ended, Durkee Foods and Pet Milk, have provided the area with the United States and subsequently the Lehigh Valley. several institutions of higher learning flourished rapid job openings. Before the Germans had a chance to stop painting ly. Lehigh University, probably the best example of the The region over the year has lost the majority of its distelfinks, dry their brushes and prevent this new breed influence of- industry on the Lehigh Valley, Lafayette, earmarks of the past and has forged the solid unity it from undermining their camp, men were digging in the Muhlenberg, and Moravian all expanded greatly after 1865. today possesses and prides itself upon. Centennial Issue Page 45 cation celebrating the diamond jubilee of the school that Continued Asa Packer founded. In 1959, the Trustees announced a $22,000,000 develop ment program to conclude in June of 1966, the end of the centennial celebration. The long-range planning incorporated in this program Lehigh's First 100 Years provides for new buildings, additions to existing struc tures, additional equipment, scholarships and fellowships, and increased endowment for faculty and professorships. Some of these projects are already completed, including Show Diversified Growth the Martin D. Whitaker Metallurgical and Chemical En gineering Laboratory, Varsity House on the Saucon Valley athletic fields, and the Centennial Houses residence halls complex for undergraduates. The present campus en (Continued from Page 6) A. N. Cleaver for the promotion of music at the compasses more than 60 buildings on 700-acres. first issued, and Cyanide founded. In 1913 Taylor Gym University. Included in the present expansion program, in addition and Field were completed and Coppee became a class to other new buildings, is a new $1,500,000 engineering room building. The 1920's seem to have agreed with honorary socieites. and science research library which will house 150,000 Sigma Xi, Pi Tau Sigma, Pi Mu Epsilon, Pi Delta Ep volumes, and a Hall for Liberal Arts at a similar cost. Among the early musical organization, one Epitome silon, Delta Omicron Theta, Eta Sigma Phi, Eta Kappa The new library will be a supplement to the present lists a unique orchestra, evidently formed by students Nu and Alpha Kappa Psi are among those which date from 440,000 volume library, which is noted for its rare book majoring in chemistry, composed of such rare instru this epoch. collection. ments and personnel as the Fish-horn Soloist E-flat Since 1960, five interdisciplinary centers for research Retort, Soloist on the Beer Mug, and Organ (ic) As the Twenties went out and the Depression came in, and instruction have been formed at Lehigh. Included are Manipulator. the Library was remodeled. Lehigh established a de the Center for Information Sciences, the Materials Re partment of moral and religious philosophy, started a search Center, the Marine Science Center, the Center for Our fast-stepping band, called "the finest in the East," placement bureau and resurfaced its roads. IFC Week Application of Mathematics and the Center for Business made its appearance in 1904 under the name of the Lehigh end began, much wetter than wise and appreciating the Econoniics. Orchestra. Not until the middle twenties, when the Beth- forward-looking Max McConn, and our second and third The Graduate School, listed in the 1866 Register, and When James Ward Packard gave the University money to build an electrical and mechan ical engineering laboratory, the only thing he stipulated was that a picture of his first auto mobile be hung in the lobby. Lehigh, however, went one up on the suggestion, andenclosed the first automobile in a case in the lobby. When Richards was president, the car arrived in a crate and, after a trip around the campus, was moved in. lehem Steel Company donated instruments, did it begin to Rhodes scholars were sent to a much older school on the Institute of Research, established in 1924, also con approximate its present stature. the Thames. tribute to the pattern of interrelationships concentrated Then came the war years. The pages of the Brown and In 193G President Richards retired, and Dr. Clement on undergraduate education. The Graduate School enroll White resembled those of World War II: news stories C. Williams, dean of engineering at the University of ment during the current year includes 1,560 men and toid of the University's cooperation with the government, Iowa, became the new president. Dean McConn went to women. editorials stoutly asserted that the war effort needed Washington Square College and Director of Admissions The catalog of 1868 stated that "the instruction in all technical and managerial excellence just as muchas pro Congdon became the new dean of undergraduates. parts of the University is principally, by textbooks, with ficiency in handling a gun. Richards House was completed in 1939, and Interdor- supplementary lectures," That feature of the railroad The academic program was accelerated in 1918 just mitory and Town councils were organized. magnate's polytechnic college has not changed much as it was done in 1942. Holidays were eliminated to During the fall of 1941 Grace Hall, given to the Uni in 100 years. shorten the second semester. Many Lehigh men went to versity by Eugene Gifford Grace, president of the Board If Asa's spirit wanders along the ridge of South Moun war. The Student Army Training Corps, the forerunner of Trustees, was dedicated. And hundreds of undergrad tain and looks down over the campus, it sees hundreds of ROTC, was organized. The campus was turned into a uates sat and watched the University grant honorary of students walking from the University Center down to quasi-military camp, with armed sentries demanding degrees to its "distinguished sons" as part of the Convo- Christmas-Saucon Hall (the two were joined by a Hyphen passes from eveyone who stepped on the University grounds. Beginning the modern era, Lehigh, which originally was composed of five "schools." was organised into its present three undergraduate colleges of Engineering, Business Administration and Arts and Science in 1918. Today the total number of faculty members in these col leges has grown to 375 while undergraduate enrollment has increased to 2,981. In 1919 the Interfraternity council was organized. With the inauguration of Charles Russ Richards in 19-1, Lehigh began to expand greatly. A greater Lehigh Fund, built by alumni, friends, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation, ac cumulated $2 million. And the 40 students, one instructor, six professors and one janitor who gathered in Christmas Hall that Septem ber day in 1866 when Asa Packer opened his school would have been amazed at the tall, grand tower of the Alumni Memorial Building gazing across the lawns of the campus. Eighteen hundred Lehigh men had served in the World War. Forty-six had died. To those 1,800 and to those 46, the new administration building was a monument. Two years after President Richards came to Lehigh, Charles Maxwell McConn became Lehigh's first dean. The Calculus Cremation ended. A Lehigh chapter of ODK began. The military department established an ordinance unit in addition to the infantry, and moved into the old Commons, (In 1941 the military department moved out, and the Armory became a dining hall again.) Lehigh began to get more" culture." The Lehigh Review and the department of fine arts were both established, although the Review suspended operations in 1940 and ceased to exist in 1965. The art gallery opened in 1930, three days before the James Ward Packard Laboratory of mechanical and elec trical engineering was dedicated. About the same time, Lehigh received $100,000 from the estate of one of its former professors, L. C. Stewardson, for the establish ment of a professorship in philosophy, and $50,000 from Page 46 The BROWN and WHITE tower Asa never knew of), carrying notebooks in which to record the wisdom gleaned from the " supplementary lectures." Many things, however, have changed. No students stand at windows in Saucon Hall to shoot at passing goats, as the Burr reports they did back in the handle-bar days of Lehigh. Arcadia meets regularly as it did in the day of Richard Harding Davis, but its members do not engage in boxing or philosophical conversation as did Davis' fellow members. As an additional hazard to high grades, the gas lights in the dormitories were turned off by 11 p.m. and there were proctors living in nearby rooms to insure com pliance with the regulations. If the frosh of 1866 were to believe the first register of the University, they probably wrote home to their parents, " The health of Bethlehem is proverbial. The air is pure and extremely vigorating." At the time Bethlehem's wealth of industry along the Lehigh River had not yet grown to today's amazing pro portions, and the river was a favorite swimming and skating place. Also located on the Lehigh River was the " romantic" Calypso Isle to which stalwart Lehigh men were prob ably wont to row and canoe for picnics on Sunday after noons. Of course, the taverns of the Borough of South Beth lehem and its neighbor across the river were great temptations to Lehigh men of the early years and many succumbed to the attraction. Students got together in rather closely knit social groups, which evolved into Eating Clubs and later to fraternity living groups. Each of the Eating Clubs de veloped its own name and motto; one, the Cannibals, declared "We don't eat men, but don't we men eat." The fashions of the day led to the nickname for well- dressed Lehigh men—dudes, defined by the Burr as men " who brush their hair into their eyes and wear tight pants." The young Bethlehemites often took exception to the natty attire, all of which caused the Bethlehem police much dismay and a few young men bruised knuckles and black eyes. The "townies," however, often fought for, instead of against, the men on the hill when Lafayette moved into town for one of the annual sport clashes. And the Lehigh men had their complaints against the toll collector on the New Street bridge as a Burr article which laments the The celebration usually involved a huge bonfire, burn during the next hundred years; the spirit and force that death of the noble gentleman's watchdog indicates. ing Calculus in effigy, while students grouped around the is Lehigh will continue to push onward, ever expanding As the University kept growing, so did its traditions blaze hurling their books, last token of their bondage. her sphere of influence and ever growing in stature. and ceremonies. Two of these now vanished events are These have been replaced by more conservative, more Dr. W. Deming Lewis, Rhodes Scholar, space scien worthy of note. First are the annual Cane Rushes which enduring demonstrations, such as Flagpole Day, Lafayette tist, and University President since October 1964, has Catherine Drinker Bowen, daughter of a past president Pep Rally, freshman dinks and rules, pledge duties, Hell said, " The direction in which we intend to progress can of Lehigh, describes in her " History of Lehigh Univer Week, and tugs-of-war, but it is understandable if Lehigh best be understood in terms of four concepts that have sity" as follows: men of the 1880's still think a bit nostalgically about the dominated the thinking of Lehigh people during our cen " The offhand way in which the students regarded the rough-and-ready times they had welcoming freshmen and tennial celebration. casualities indicent of this species of sport is shown in putting them through their paces. "These concepts are expansion, concentration, respon the following remarks which the Burr of 1889 makes on a Students can now take books home from the Library, a sibility and communication—expansion of our graduate recent rush; 'The struggle on the whole was a fine one, privilege they lacked back in the'70's. The Supply Bureau school, concentration upon educating our undergraduates practically free from slugging, with the usual amount of has expanded from a one-counter affair into a small de in the fundamentals of their chosen fields, exercise of our confusion incident to all rushes and unfortunately more partment store. responsibility to society, and communication with the than the usual number of accidents,'" society which we are serving. The grand rush held on the night before opening on Compulsory chapel, long a cause of much griping among "These four concepts are closely interrelated. They the terrace of Packer Hall, has also passed into oblivion, Lehigh men, is no longer with us, and students may now are integrated in our plan to confront the problems though there are many who carry the scars of battle sleep only until 8 instead of getting up at 8:45. Compulsory caused by the explosive increases in knowledge, popu gained on that steep slope in the dark, with the ambulance ROTC has also gone the way of the chapel services. lation and human needs in our modern world," Dr. Lewis waiting in the President's back yard. . ." Class rivalries have all but disappeared. Students may stated, A second tradition, typically Lehigh, was the Calculus no longer go boating on the Lehigh river, but automobiles A University on South Mountain by the Lehigh River, Cremation, which lasted as a yearly event until the school now swarm the campus. Students are now officially per a school whose technological training is softened and year 1924-25. Each year after the sophomores had suc mitted to swear (as long as they act like gentlemen), and broadened by its studies in and promotion of the human cessfully defeated the demon, they held a joyous cele although intoxication is still frowned upon, 21-year-old ities and social sciences, "a polytechnic college, for bration in which they imagined themselves as slaves of upperclassmen are allowed to have liquor in their rooms. the education of youth, of the name, style, and title of the " King" until the final examination where they freed But no matter how student life has changed since the Lehigh University" -- the college that began down there in themselves from his iron grip. days when all campus roads and paths were muddy ruts Christmas Hall in 1866, the college for which Asa Packer (now they are paved potholes), no matter how the details gave half a million dollars and 56 acres of land -- Lehigh have been altered, no matter how many buildings have University is a grand old place. been built or how much laboratory equipment has been When Asa'a spirit sees the Alumni Memorial Building installed, the educational ideas of Judge Packer and tower silhouetted against the sunset, he must feel very Bishop Stevens live on. And it will change even more proud. This aerial view of the University cam pus was taken around the turn of the cen tury. On its roads roamed one of the very earliest snow plows (below), following the course mapped out by a group re sembling this very early civil engine ering class. One of these roads, Mem orial Lane, can be seen here without the present-day tank traps. Centennial Issue Page 47 THE INTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL Lehigh University Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1965-1966 OFFICERS 1966-1967 OFFICERS President David P. Etzel, Jr., Beta Theta Pi President Ralph B. Levy, Tau Delta Phi Vice President Peter P. Burns, Jr., Chi Phi Vice President Frederick J. Cuthbertson, Beta Theta Phi Treasurer Ronald E. DeVeau, Chi Psi Treasurer Richard J. Campbell, Chi Phi Secretary Frank E. Weise III, Phi Delta Theta Secretary Peter F. Ciampa, Chi Psi ALPHA CHI RHO 1895, Phi Mu Chapter 1918 ALPHA SIGMA PHI 1845, Beta Epsilon Chapter 1929 ALPHA TAU OMEGA 1865, Pennsylvania Alpha Rho Chapter 1882 BETA THETA PI 1837, Beta Chi Chapter 1891 CHI PHI 1860, Psi Chapter 1872 CHI PSI 1841, Alpha Beta Delta Chapter 1894 DELTA CHI 1890, Lehigh Chapter 1952 DELTA PHI 1827, Nu Chapter 1884 DELTA SIGMA PHI 1899, Beta Theta Chapter 1931 DELTA TAU DELTA 1858, Beta Lambda Chapter 1872 DELTA UPSILON 1834, Lehigh Chapter 1885 KAPPA ALPHA 1825, Alpha of Pennsylvania 1893 KAPPA SIGMA 1869, Beta Iota Chapter 1900 LAMBDA CHI ALPHA 1909, Gamma Psi Zeta Chapter 1926 PHI DELTA THETA 1848, Pennsylvania Eta Chapter 1887 PHI GAMMA DELTA 1848, Beta Chi Chapter 1885 PHI KAPPA THETA 1922, Alpha Chapter 1919 PHI SIGMA KAPPA 1873, Nu Chapter 1901 PI KAPPA ALPHA 1868, Gamma Lambda Chapter 1929 PI LAMBDA PHI 1895, Lambda Chapter 1916 PSI UPSILON 1833, Eta Chapter 1884 SIGMA ALPHA MU 1909, Sigma Kappa Chapter 1920 SIGMA CHI 1855, Alpha Rho Chapter 1887 SIGMA NU 1869, Pi Chapter 1885 SIGMA PHI 1827, Alpha of Pennsylvania 1887 SIGMA PHI EPSILON 1901, Pennsylvania Epsilon Chapter 1908 TAU ALPHA KAPPA 1963 TAU DELTA PHI 1910, Tau Chapter 1926 THETA CHI 1856, Beta Sigma Chapter 1942 THETA DELTA CHI 1847, Nu Deuteron Charge 1884 THETA XI 1864, Eta Chapter 1903 **^r*r****** * Page 48 The BROWN and WHITE We believe the quest for knowledge is one of mankind's highest aspirations. 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