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ALLENTOWN.
SITUATED ON THE LEHIGH RIVER AT THE JUNCTION OF THE EAST PENNSYLVANIA AND LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROADS. FROM M. S. HENRY'S "HISTORY OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY," 1860.
HISTORIC HOMES AND INSTITUTIONS
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GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS
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THE LEHIGH VALLEY
PENNSYLVANIA
UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF
JOHN W. JORDAN, LL. D. OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA AND EDGAR MOORE GREEN, A. M., M. D. OF EASTON, PA. GEORGE T. ETTINGER, PH. D. OF MUHLENBERG COLLEGE, ALLENTOWN, PA.
"Knowledge of kindred and the genealogies of the ancient families deserveth the highest praise. Herein consisteth a part of the knowledge of a man's own self. It is a great spur to virtue to look back on the worth of our line."-Lord Bacon.
"There is no heroic poem in the world but is at the bottom the life of a man."-Sir Walter Scott.
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NEW YORK CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
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INDEX
Acker, Reuben, 15I Ackerman, Abraham S., 251 Ackerman, Henry S., 249 Adams, Henry, 32 Adams, Joseph W., 32 Adams, Samuel, 31
Adams, The Family, 28
Albright, Alfred C., 405 Albright, Edwin, 274 Albright, George O., 321 Albright, Josiah G., 102 Albright, Louis R., 322 Allentown College for Women, 316 Allentown National Bank, 397 Andrews, William, 288 Arbogast & Bastian Company, 240 Arbogast, Wilson, 24I Arndt, John, 50 Arndt, The Family, 46 Ayers, The Family, 233
Bachman, Griffiths H., 218 Baker. Isaac H., 515 Baldwin, Frederic A. R., 317 Balliet, A. H., 327 Balliet, William H., 296 Barch, Jacob M., 14I Barner, Victor D., 165 Barnes, Avon, 303 Barnes, Jacob, 305 Bastian, Morris C., 243
Bastian, Walter E., 242 Beary, Mahlon H., 282 Beck, C. E., 250 Beck, Jacob H., 244 Beck, Richard H., 495 Beck, William, 245 Beck, William F., 447 Beers, Asa R., 148 Berkemeyer, Francis M., 118 Berlin, Charles I., 442 Biery, Jacob G., 129 Bigelow, Arthur F., 107 Bittner, Frank D., 27I Bixler, Floyd S., 335 Blakslee, Charles A., 312 Blakslee, Eugene H., 216 Blakslee, William W., 157 Blank, Edwin H., 325 Bortz, Harrison, 319 Bowen, Emeline, 270
Bowen, James K., 270
Bowen, John, 268
Bowen, The Family, 268
Boyer, Solomon, 164.
Boyer, Tilghman H., 135
Brinker, Arason O., 473
Brobst, John A., 189
Brodhead, Albert G., 260
Brown, Charles D., 178
Brunner, Charles M., 148
Burger, Jacob H., 502
Butler, Alexander W., 205 Butts, W., 504 Butz, David A., 330
Butz, Edmund, 126
Butz, Reuben D., 453 Butz, Reuben J., 455
Butz, The Family, 453
Butz, Thomas A., 330
Butz, Thomas F., 160 Buzzard, Henry, 17I
Carter, William T., 458 Chapman, William, 519 Chase, Simeon B., 79
Christman, Bennewell, 183
Christman, Charles, 115
Christman, Edwin H., 145 Clemens, Henry S., III Cohn, Charles H., 283 Colt, Henry, 276 Cooper, C. J., 67 Cooper, Henry P., 179 Cope, Silas, 510 Cope, Thomas, 235 Craig, Allen, 346 Craig, Benjamin, 13I Craig, Douglas, 222
Craig, H. D., 348
Craig, John, 38
Crilly, Hugh E., 172
Datesman, Samuel, 254 Daugherty, George H., 306 Daugherty, Thomas, 305 Davies, George, 352 Davis, David, 395 Dech, Edwin J., 342 Dech, George H., 386 deNisco, Pasquale, 192 Dent, Henry H., 76
Derr, Amandus S., 484 Dickenshied, Eugene H., 449 Diehl, Joseph, 505 Doolittle, E. D., 526 Dorney, William T., 493
Doster, William E., 356
Douglass Genealogy, 338 Downing, Joseph, 281 Drake, Fred R., 45 Drake, John, 42 Drake, Samuel, 44 Drake, The Family, 4I
Dreisbach, Edwin W., 359
Dreisbach, James M., 377 Dreisbach, Lewis, 358
Drumbore, Nathan, 343
Dryfoos, Henry, Jr., 348
Dunbar, Enos, 473
Durham, Joseph E., 289
Edwards, Charles H., 472 Emery, Stephen S., 246 Enbody, Edwin R., 264 Erdell, William E., 416
Erdman, Constantine J., 162
Erdman, William B., 188
Erwin, B. S., 439
Ettinger, George T., 64
Everett, Ira, 467 Everitt, George I., 75 Eyer, Howard J., 469
Farber, William D., 42I Farr, Harvey H., 77 Faust, John W., 407
Fogel, Tilghman, 413 Follweiler, Robert D. E., 414
Fox, Gustav T., 344
Fox, John Q. A., 173 Frace, David, 422 Frantz, Alvin E., 446 Freyman, William G., 207 Friebolin, Jacob, 412 Fritchman, W. Bion, 520 Frutchey, Theodore, 471 Fuller, James W., 518
Fuller, James W., 517 Fulmer, Chester B., 425 Fulmer, Henry, 424
Gabriel, Milton S., 329
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Keller, Edwin, 123
Keller, J. C., 73
Kellow, Robert, 250
Kemmerer, Mahlon S., 500
Kemmerer, Oscar E., 362
Kemmerer, The Family, 510
Kerchner, George, 397
Kern, Erasmus F., 419
Kern, Henry S., 408
Kern, Irwin R., 469
Kern, Peter J., 450
Kern, Sylvanus J., 412
King, Benjamin F., 513
Kinginger, William H., 498
Kistler, Eugene M., 322
Kistler, Samuel J., Jr., 490
Kistler, Wilson P., 322
Kline, Benjamin F., 100
Kline, Edwin, 127
Kline, Henry A., 293
Kline, William, 2II
Klotz, Lentz E., 214
Knappenberger, J. William, 315
Knauss, Oscar P., 186
Knecht, Howard R., 224
Knecht, Owen H., 525
Koehler, William F., 74
Kostenbader, Herman, 140
Kramer, Franklin M., 436
Kramer, Fred F., 438
Krause, Edwin A., 394
Kriedler, William H., 388
Kroninger, Daniel B., 182
Kuehner, Daniel, 253
Kuhl, G. Frederick, 147
Kuhns, Ellsworth G. M., 492
Laub, George W., 484
Lambert, Charles W., 505
Landes, A. D., 475
Landes, William, 375
Landis, W. D., 182
Laros, A. H., 432
Laubach, Barnet, 375
Laubach, John L., 376
Laubach, Reuben, 494
Laury, Alexander C. P., 387
Laury, David, 191
Lawall, Edwin, 367
Lawall, Reuben O., 485
Lawfer, John N., 389
Lawrence, Phil J., 418
Leh, Henry, 95 Lehigh University, I
Lehr, Samuel D., 228 Lehr, William C., 99
Leidy, Oren R. B., 500 Leisenring, John, 195
Lentz, Horace De Y., 351
Lentz, John E., 448 Lerch, Aaron, 451 Lesher, Thomas M., 379 Levan, A. D., 406
Lewis, Arnold R., 298 Lewis, Fred E., 265 Lewis, Samuel B., 76 Lilly, Alfred H., 514 Lilly, William, 200 Line, Jesse, 115
Litzenberg, Uriah S., 286 Lobb, William F., 259 Loose, Jacob C., 210
Lotte Brothers, 324 Luckenbach, Andrew A., 507
Luckenbach, Edwin F., 223 Ludwig, Wilson P., 381 Luttenberger, Jacob, 464
Malcolm, David R., 117
Mantz, Phaon W., 434
Marks, Clement A., 137
Martin, Isaiah, 421
Matcham. Charles A., 159
Mauser, Jacob B., 408
McClure, Baxter B., 383
McKenna, David, 452
Meckley, William H. H., 438
Meixell, Harvey P., 497
Merchants National Bank. 267
Mershon, George M., 483 Messinger, Frank, 362 Mickley, Frank P., 420 Miller, Aaron S., 178
Miller, Conrad, 363
Miller, Edwin F., 107
Miller, George, 468
Miller, J. August, 499
Miller, Jacob, 313
Miller, James A., 84
Miller, William H., 373
Milson, Daniel, 230
Moessner, William J., 243 Mohn, E. F., 168
More, Wilson F., 231
Mosser, James K., 40I
Moyer, Lewis W., 144
Muffley, Franklin, 247
Musselman, Absalom, 44I
Muhlenberg College, 54
Mutchler, Howard, 27 Mutchler, William, 24 Myers, Hiram, 248
Nagle, James, 381
Nagle, James E., 348 Newhard, Charles L., 139 Nonnemaker, Lewis, 12I
Oberly, Franklin, 459 Odenwelder, Philip C., 514 O'Neil, Christopher T., 198 Oplinger, George T., 400
Oswald, Phaon B., 410
Oyer, William H., 256
Packer, Asa, 5 Paff, Alfred M .. 480 Pardee, Ario, 398 Pearsall, David J., 9 Pearson, John C., 176
Peter, Oscar B., 506
Peters, James W., 406
Porter, James M., 455 Post Genealogy, 338
Rader, E. B., 396 Ramsay. John L., 163 Raub, Francis D., 332
George, Jonas, 429 Gerhart, J. A., 427 German, Edwin F., 445 Gildner, Elias K., 175 Giles, John E., 487 Godley, William V., 417 Gordon, William G., 515 Greiss, George A., 86 Grim, Abraham S., 3II Grim, Albert P., 361
Grim, Celia, 106
Grim, Henry J., 286
Grim, Jacob W., 360 Grim, Walter J., 89 Gruver, Orville E., 185
Haas, Charles B., 90 Haas, George H., 128
Haas, Nathan A., 500
Hahn, Franklin J., 384 Handwerk, Nathan, 434 Hark, Joseph M., 52 Harter, Francis W., 486 Hartzell, Franklin K., 285 Hartzell, Henry K., 104 Haupt, Harvey E., 496 Hawk, Erastus D., 123 Hay, Thomas A. H., 277 Haydon, James C., 462 Heberling, James S., 431 Hecker, William F., 77 Heckman, John D., 495 Heil, Edwin, 498 Hellick, John, 497 Hemm, Gustav A., 74 Henry, Levi, 522 Herman, George F., 83 Hersh, Henry D., 85 Hertzog, Isaac F., 372 Heydt, Horace, 212 Hoffmeier, Howard F., 338 Hollenbach, James O., 174 Horn, Harry Y., 402 Horton, Daniel, 256 Howell, Marshall, 184.
Huber, Walter T., 516
Hunsicker, Francis P., 161 Hunsicker, Henry W., 328 Huth, Frank, 435
Insley, Isaac B., 443 Insley, Philip F., 385 Iobst, Joseph S., 181
Jacobs, Frank, 105 Jacoby. William, 374 Tarrard, Oliver O., 216 Johnson, Andrew B., 44I Jones, The Family, 235 Jordan, John W., 527
Jordan, Samuel F., 116 Jordan, Wilson F., 380
Kaiser, Charles C., 80 Keck, Charles, 34 Keck, William G., 153 Keifcr, George, 508 Keifer, Marshall, 477 Keiter, Franklin T. L., 118
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Schweitzer, Wallace V., 364 Seagraves, George W., 149 Scagreaves, James M., 320 Sebring, William B., 245 Seibert, Peter, 177
Seip, Thcodore L., 60 Serfass, Abraham L., 524 Seybert, Benjamin F., 427 Shaffer, William B., 521 Shankweiler, Lewis O., 98 Shannon, Harrison, 257 Sherrer, William C., 479 Shimer, Alexander S., 399 Shimer, Joseph D., 255 Shimer, John F., 169 Shook, Joseph H., 252
Singmaster, J. Walter, 409 Skeer, Charles O., 488
Slough, Franklin J., 138
Smoyer, Edwin C., 136 Smoyer, Thomas, 512
Snell, Oliver, 465
Snyder, Charles E., 523
Snyder, Eli J., 486
Snyder, William D., 340
Spangler, Solomon, 478
Speer, Arastus A., 252
Speer, Emery, 474
Stansfield, E. A., 97
Statler, Tilghman, 146 Stauffer, Abraham D., 388
Stecher, Oliver P., 34I
Steckel, Reuben P., 160
Steckel, Robert, 314
Steckel, Thomas, 113
Steinhaeuser, Jacob, 273
Steinmetz, Oliver D., 342
Sterner, Jacob G., 133 Stiles, Harry G., 72 Stiles, The Family, 69 Stotz, The Family, 528 Stout, Abram, 350 Strassburger, N. S., 92
Strassburger, The Family, 90 Stroh, William .H., 209 Sykes, George G., 88
Taylor, John, 287 Thomas, David, 16 Thomas, James, 355 Thomas, John, 208 Thomas, Luther, 227 Thomas, Samucl, 22 Tritschler, John, 119
Ulrich, Alexander N., 219
Waidelich, Jacob B., 120
Weaver, Alfred R., 194
Webb, Charles H., 265
Weida, Menno, 13I Weidner, Maberry S., 334 Weinsheimer, Henry, 93 Weinsheimer, William H., 94
Weiss, Francis, 37I Weiss, Jacob, 372 Weiss, John J., 368 Werley, Calvin D., 194
Wert, John, 423
Weysser, John R. G., 361
Whitehead, William H., Jr., 226
Wieand, Harvey J., 122
Wiess, Noah, 414
Wilbur, Elisha P., 7
Wilbur, Warren A., 9 William T. Carter Junior Republic, The, 430 Wolf, The Family, 134
Wolle, Clarence A., 39I
Wolle, George H., 393 Wood, J. Winslow, 80
Worman, Nathan E., 336 Wright, Robert E., 220
Yaeger, George J., 214
Yetter, Hiram, 470
Yetter, Joseph H., 476 Yost, Alfred J., 78 Young, The Family, 202
Zane, William L., 463 Zulick, Thomas C., 482
Rauch, Joseph, 280 Reber, William H., 465 Reeves, Archic, 523 Rchrig, Charles G., 466 Rehrig, Esaias, 132 Reimer, William, 258 Remmel, Julius A., 518 Repass, Stephen A., 108 Rex, C. A., 206 Rex, George S., 217 Rex, Osville P., 422 Riegel, Amos, 349
Ricgel, Johan A., 349 Ricgel, Martin J., 526 Ritter, Stewart D., 503 Roeder, James B., 130
Romich, Henry L., 4II Rothermel, George B., 332 Rothermel, Robert R., 510 Ruhe, Edward, 309 Ruhe, Joseph, 212 Ruhe, Wallace E., 125 Ruhl, George, 426 Runk, Fred G. W., 132 Rupp, Alvin, 29I
Saeger, Charles M., 143 Sander, Francis, 142 Saylor, David O., 404 Saylor, Obadiah L., 504 Schaadt, James L., 501 Schadel, William, 466 Schadt, Tilghman, 15I Schall, John R., 169 Schantz, Charles O., 326 Schantz, Horace W., 481 Schantz, Milton P., 444 Schell, H. M., 185 Schertzinger, Henry A., 405 Schindel, The Family, IO Schoch, Emanuel, 478 Schortz, Lavene, 440 Schortz, William H., 428 Schreiber, James F., 433 Schuler, Harvin T., 493 Schweitzer, Henry, 175
FOUR WINTER VIEWS OF CAMPUS.
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LEHIGH VALLEY
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY.
By N. M. EMERY, Registrar. (From the Technical World of April, 1904 )
Situated in the midst of a large park at the base of South Mountain in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and surrounded by terraced lawns and noble forest trees, are the ivy-covered build- ings of Lehigh University, an institution which owes its origin to the genius of the late Judge Asa Packer, of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania.
From young manhood Mr. Packer was con- nected with various business enterprises of the valley of the Lehigh river, including the develop- ment of extensive coal lands. With that rare sa- gacity which characterized him in all his under- takings, he saw that unless these vast stores could be brought to business centers where they could be distributed, an immense amount of wealth would lie dormant and the development of a large section of Pennsylvania would be retarded. Boldly grappling with this problem, he constructed that monument to his business discernment-together with the University most intimately connected with his name-the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
Mr. Packer had not had the advantages of a college education, and fully realized what a help such a training would have been to him in his business and technical undertakings. There was, moreover, at about the middle of the nineteenth century, a great call for skilled men, especially those systematically instructed in the sciences and technology, to help develop the vast mineral re- sources of the Lehigh Valley, in which Judge Packer was financially interested. Fully realizing the needs of the time and of the section, he re-
solved to devote a part of his wealth to the estab- lishment of an institution for the intellectual de- velopment of the young men of the valley, to fit them for the various technical professions.
Accordingly, in 1865, he set aside for the es- tablishment of the University $500,000 and fifty- six acres of land in South Bethlehem, Pennsyl- vania. The University park was subsequently enlarged by a further gift of fifty-two acres from Judge Packer and of seven acres from Charles Brodhead, Esq., of Bethlehem, the area of the University grounds being thereby increased to 115 acres. By the provision of his will, Judge Packer left to the University-which owed its existence entirely to his efforts-a permanent endowment fund of $1,500,000 for general ex- penses, and $500,000 as a special endowment for the maintenance and growth of the library. He thus devoted to the University, including the cost of the grounds and of the buildings erected dur- ing his lifetime, more than $3,000,000-up to that time, it is though, the largest sum ever given by an individual for the endowment of a college.
In the fall of 1866, after the institution had been duly incorporated by the Legislature of Pennsylvania with the right to confer the various college degrees, work was formally started with a faculty of seven and with two classes number- ing forty students. From that beginning the Uni- versity has gradually grown during the thirty- eight years of its existence, until at present (Jan- mary, 1905) the teaching force numbers fifty- six and the student body 614.
In pursuance of the purpose of the founder to provide an institution for the training of young
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men along all branches of activity, technological as well as literary, the University offers various four-year courses : two in general literature-the Classical and the Latin-Scientific; and eleven in technology and science-Civil, Mechanical, Min- ing, Metallurgical, Electrical, Chemical, and Marine Engineering, Electro-metallurgy, Chem- istry, Physics, and Geology, all leading to appro- priate degrees.
For pursuing the work of these courses the University is well provided with suitable build- ings, laboratories, apparatus, and general equip- mient. Packer Hall, a four-story sandstone struc- ture, 215 feet long and 65 feet wide, with a tower at the western extremity 200 feet high, built in the English Gothic style of architecture, and lo- cated on the upper terrace of the park, thereby commanding an extensive view of the surround- ing country, is devoted largely to instruction in the department of Civil Engineering. In the base- ment of this building are testing laboratories for cement, brick, and metals, which contain 20,000,- 100,000-and 150,000-pound machines for tension, compression, and flexure tests, a 50,000-inch- pound machine for torsion tests, and special ap- paratus for experimental work to accompany in- struction in strength of material. The Instru- ment rooms of the Civil Engineering department are well equipped with transits, levels, and acces- sories for practical instruction in surveying.
To the east of Packer Hall is the Library, a semi-circular sandstone and granite building with a handsome Venetian facade, erected by Judge Packer in 1877 at a cost of $100,000. In the interior, the center is occupied as a reading space, 50 by 40 feet, from which radiate book cases, extending from floor to ceiling, two gal- leries affording access to the upper cases. The library now has upon its shelves 123,000 volumes, including many extremely rare and valuable books, and there is still shelf room for 50,000 volumes. Especially valuable for professional students is the technical library, numbering over 10,000 volumes, of the late Hon. Eckley B. Coxe, who was for many years a trustee of the Uni- versity.
Below the Library is situated the Chemical
Laboratory, a fireproof building over 200 feet long and nearly 50 feet wide, with a wing, one- half the size of the main building, devoted to the departments of Mineralogy and Metallurgy. In this building the department of Chemistry has large, well-lighted and well-ventilated laborator- ies for qualitative, quantitative, organic, physio- logical, agricultural, sanitary, and industrial chemistry, photography, microscopy, gas analysis, and assaying. The Metallurgical department has in this building its offices and lecture and recita- tion rooms ; a blowpipe laboratory for class in- struction in both qualitative and quantitative blowpipe analysis and in the practical determina- tion of crystals and minerals ; a museum for min- eralogical and metallurgical collections; a min- eralogical laboratory provided with goniometers, polariscopes and polarizing microscopes; a dry laboratory provided with furnaces for solid fuel and for gas with natural draught and with blast ; a wet laboratory for ordinary analytical work; and electric current for electro-metallurgical ex- periments and reductions. These laboratories are arranged for the instruction of classes in the courses in mineralogy, metallurgy, and blowpipe analysis of the regular curriculum, and to afford facilities for advanced students in conducting original investigations in these departments of science.
Further east, close by the central heating plant and connected with it, is the Steam Engineering Laboratory, a new two-story building, 90 by 44 feet. devoted to the experimental study of the accessories of Mechanical Engineering. It is divided into two sections, one for boilers and the other for engines. The former can accommodate three 100-horse-power high-pressure boilers, and the latter the various steam motors and their accessories. In this experimental power plant are contained a triple-expansion engine; a tandem- compound marine engine; a high-speed Ball en- gine, coupled to a 25-K. W. generator; an air compressor which is compound at both air and steam ends, with reheating and cooling devices attached ; and a steam turbine combined with a centrifugal pump. The accessories are several steam, circulating, and air pumps; feed-water
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heaters; steam separators; box-coil condensers ; surface condensers ; complete air-brake apparatus, including the pump and engineer's valve; water -meters, weighing tanks, and dynamometers for measuring the steam consumption and the devel- opment of power. Students in several of the technical courses of the University receive prac- tical instruction in this phase of engineering.
A late addition to the buildings of Lehigh Uni- versity is Williams Hall, erected in 1903. This building is 186 feet long by 70 feet wide, and covers a ground area of over 12,000 square feet. One half of the building is devoted to the depart- ment of Mechanical Engineering, and the other half to Geology, Biology, and Mining Engineer- ing. In the eastern end are located the recitation rooms, offices, drawing rooms, reference library, and store-rooms of the department of Mechanical Engineering; and in the basement are provided rooms and apparatus for laboratory work in ex- perimental mechanics and engineering physics, such as the calibration of measuring instruments used in Mechanical Engineering, the determination of the mechanical efficiencies of hoisting and other gear, and the testing of motors and other prime movers than steam engines. In this section there are four-cycle and two-cycle gas engines, hot-air pumping engines, electric motors, centrifugal pumps, hoists, blocks, jacks, and dynamometers of all kinds.
In the west end of Williams Hall the depart- ment of Geology has its lecture rooms, library, and laboratory of petrology. The department is well equipped with valuable study collections of fossils, rocks, and economic minerals gathered from the type regions in different parts of the world, together with twelve high-grade petro- graphic microscopes, an apparatus for cutting thin sections of rocks, and field equipment for practical work in the subject.
The department of Mining Engineering, also with its headquarters in Williams Hall, is well equipped with mining transits, having top and side telescopes and solar attachment, levels, and other accessory instruments for practical work in mine surveying ; together with samples of appar-
atus used in mining operations, drawings, and models of mining plants.
Situated in the extreme northeastern corner of the University grounds is the four-story Labor- atory of Physics and of Electrical Engineering, 240 by 50 feet. The building is well furnished with standard apparatus for class-room instruc- tion and laboratory investigation in all branches of physics ; also with direct-current and alternat- ing-current dynamos and motors of various kinds, transformers, and a variety of measuring instru- ments, including voltmeters, ammeters, watt- meters, rheostats, contact makers, dynamometers, and condensers-in short, with all appliances necessary for thorough instruction in Electrical Engineering.
Close by the eastern entrance to the University grounds are two brick buildings, Saucon Hall and Christmas Hall. Saucon Hall is used for instruc- tion in English, Economics, and Politics. Christ- mas Hall, the oldest building in the University Park, contains the drawing rooms of the Mining and Metallurgical Engineering departments, and, in addition, a supply bureau conducted by stu- dents of the University, the Y. M. C. A. rooms, and a large reading room and study rooms for students.
Instruction in practical astronomy is given at the Sayre Observatory, erected and equipped by Robert H. Sayre, Esq., of South Bethlehem, who was a business associate of Judge Packer and who has been a trustee of the University from its foundation to the present time. In this building there are equatorial and zenith telescopes and ac- cessories usually found in well-equipped observ- atories.
During the summer of 1904 an annex to the Sayre Observatory was erected, with instruments for the study of variation of latitude.
In ministering to the mind, the development of the body is not overlooked, as is witnessed by the Gymnasium, furnished with the best patterns of apparatus for physical culture ; and the large Athletic Field, suitably arranged for baseball, football, lacrosse, and all divisions of track and field sports.
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Besides the residence of the president and two professors' houses, the remaining buildings in the Park-one of the most imposing structures of all is the Packer Memorial Church, the muni- ficent gift of Mrs. Mary Packer Cummings, daughter of the founder of the University. This edifice, situated near the entrance to the grounds, is one of the largest and most magnificent churches in the State of Pennsylvania. Morning prayers, at which attendance is required of stu- dents at least three mornings of the week, are held in this building.
The literary courses of the University-the Classical and the Latin-Scientific-leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, are designed to pro- vide general liberal education as distinct from special or professional training. The purpose is to prepare young men for intelligent and success- ful activity in business, industrial, or professional life. A limited amount of work in subjects which are accepted instruments of general education and necessary preliminaries of all professional study-such as ancient and modern languages, mathematics, physics, chemistry, economics, and psychology-is required of every student in these academic courses. Beyond these subjects, the student is allowed wide freedom in the choice of his work, as the elective privilege extends to all subjects taught in the University. A student is thereby enabled to choose his work systematically with constant reference to his ultimate aims, and, in many cases, may reduce by a year or two the length of his purely professional course. For ex- ample, a graduate of either of the academic courses at Lehigh University, who has made suit- able electives, can complete in two years the work of any of the courses in technology or science and receive the appropriate engineering degree. Such a broad course, representing liberal training as well as special technical work, makes for profes- sional superiority and success.
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