Excerpt from The Epitome: Lehigh University Student Yearbook, 1885

We returned to college only forty-one Sophomores, the hideousness of the den into which we had been trapped began to disclose itself.

Then a feeling crept over us that our motto did not give vent to a frac tion Of the feeling that throbbed in our hearts; we longed for a senti ment that should express the innermost longings Of forty-one wretches who groped without hope. In solemn conclave a new motto was sworn to, to be held sacred from the world - what vows are broken in the tell ing Ofiti Sauve guipent, or translating, Every man for himself and the Devil take the hindmost. Mark its tone and consider our necessity. Our Sophomore year was big with events. We hazed and we rushed '85 may be always found on the side Of progress and reform, but our desire to preserve old landmarks proved too strong for us in these cases. Besides making our usual stir in athletics, the Class took long strides forward in scholarship, and at the end of the year a mark of 55 out of a possible 100 was achieved. We have not the slightest doubt that '86 (good, humdrum creature) would give her eyes for a touch, however small, of the nonchalant ease with which We captured high marks in the recitation room and medals in the field.

AS Juniors we numbered twenty-eight. It was a gloomy time. The thought that we might be obliged to subdivide ourselves in order that men enough might be forthcoming to allow the Faculty to continue our diminution in the ratio it had settled upon, cast a withering blight upon our lives. A considerable portion of the time during that year, spared from sad reflection, was spent in searching for that Junior Ease whose delights are so alluringly revealed in the poetry and tradition Of our sister colleges.

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