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“Cleanliness, Honor, Trustworthiness — the trinity of a technical man’s creed — have ever been held before the eyes of the undergraduates of Lehigh University.”
“You can share my rejoicing at the changes wrought in the estimation of the technical school: in the superior facilities for the preparatory work: in the status of the Lehigh graduates: in the greater adequacy of equipment: in the specialization of work among the members of a far larger and more able faculty: in the greatly increased roll of students, and especially of those in postgraduate work: in the cordiality of the intercourse between Town and Gown: in the spirit of honor which dominates undergraduate work. And you can join with me in wishing that that plain kindly man, our honored founder, Asa Packer, could rejoice with us as, with the close of these exercises, we enter upon the fiftieth year of our university life — a life so crowned with honorable work.”
The fiftieth anniversary of Lehigh will see the completion of a plan for developing plant and equipment, begun in 1905. Then direct alumni participation in the University affairs found expression in the election to the Presidency of Henry Sturgis Drinker, a graduate of the School of Mines of the Class of ‘71. Bringing to his new work thirty years of experience with men and affairs as an engineer, lawyer and business man, Dr. Drinker saw that the most pressing need of the University was better facilities for student life. The alumni program for promoting the physical welfare and comfort of the student body resulted in Taylor Hall, the large dormitory, now supplemented by a smaller dormitory; in the Commons, the student dining-hall: in Drown Memorial Hall, the social home of the student body. And now, upon encouragement from the trustees, the fraternities are tending to build their houses on the campus, so that the community phase of undergraduate life is being further augmented.
The crowning feature of the program has been the building of an athletic plant that makes effective Lehigh’s scheme of physical education, by which every student in college secures regular exercise under scientific guidance, with scholastic credit for the work. For the inception of the idea of this athletic lay-out, and for the gift making it possible, the University is indebted to Charles L. Taylor, of Pittsburgh, a graduate in the Class of 1876 and a trustee for many years. Mr. Taylor gave a large gymnasium and swimming pool and also an equipped field-house. The construction of the remainder of the plant, a concrete stadium and an additional playing field for the students, is being aided by funds donated by alumni and friends of the University.
Expansion in the educational equipment has been satisfactory. The gift to the University of the Fritz Engineering Laboratory, endowed by the will of its donor, John Fritz, has furnished the Civil Engineering department an exceptional plant. The Eckley B. Coxe Mining Laboratory is likewise a conspicuous asset of the course in Mining Engineering. In Coppée Hall, the Arts and Science department now has commodious quarters that are proving a stimulus. This building houses the youngest course in the University, the course in Business Administration. While some new laboratories are needed, and improvements and additions are always in order, the semi-centennial celebration will find Lehigh’s equipment approximately complete for an institution of its scope and size.
A second development has been the activity of the University in the past few years along public-service lines. The University’s interest in the conservation of our national resources and its services in behalf of certain vital measures, of conservation, have been widely recognized; the University has been honored in the election and re-election of its President as President of the American Forestry Association and in his appointment as an executive committee member of the National Conservation Association. Among other public-service activities of the University are its promotion and support of the War Department’s military instruction camps for students. The students at these camp’s elected Dr. Drinker President of the organization they formed, the National Reserve Corps. Dr. Drinker is Secretary of the Advisory Board of University and College Presidents on the student camps.
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An instance of the support Lehigh lends in local movements in the Bethlehem’s is presented in the hospitality accorded the Bach Choir, which last May held the tenth Bach Festival in Packer Memorial Church on the campus, an event attended by hundreds of music lovers from all parts of the country.
In its mission of helpfulness to the community the University opens its regular public lecture series to all citizens, and it has, in the extension courses, gone far beyond this. For six years the Lehigh Evening School has been offering courses to young men employed in the plant of the Bethlehem Steel Company and other local industries; there are also special Saturday courses for public school and private school teachers in the Lehigh Valley; evening course for business men and others complete this extension work of the University.
In the world of athletics Lehigh has had a steadily increasing reputation. The records of the 1912 — '13 — '14 elevens which had several players of All-America caliber, placed Lehigh on the football map. In baseball there has been a good record, and in lacrosse the old-time prestige has been regained. In basketball the Brown and White teams have done creditably, and in the past few years there has been a new popularity for track athletics due to the excellent performances of track men now in the University. Lehigh's wrestling team last year did fine work. In the success that athletics now enjoy at Lehigh there are two factors. The resources afforded in the Taylor Gymnasium and Stadium have enabled the coaches to develop material already in the University, and the possession of so fine an athletic equipment has attracted young men of athletic tendency and ability. One basis for the financial success now enjoyed is the loyalty of local citizens who are enthusiastic attendants at contests held here. Never before were the relations between Town and Gown more cordial, and Lehigh athletics have been an important influence in bringing about this happy situation.
PACKER HALL, LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
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