nBrow LEHIGH nUNIVERSITY and! ••/Whit• •. e 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.