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              favor of the latter that not much time was wasted in coming to a decision which it is needless to say was not in favor of acquitting the two criminals willing hands helped to place the condemned upon the top of the funeral pyre and the flames soon stole upward joining hands the sophs danced in wild glee about the burning crimi nals until finally the structure fell with a crash then the class sang the two songs printed in the pro gram and the procession moved back to the band-stand where the concert was continued at this stage most of the imps removed their fiery gowns and appeared in search of their friends distinguished from their associates by the brilli ant streaks of crimson which adorned their faces about 11 o'clock the long-delayed shower put in its appearance and the cre mation was over in spite of the threatening weather the attend ance was unusually large owing to the rain in the early part of the day sitting on the grass was sixteen thousand dollars have been appropriated by the new york legislature for horticultural investigations at the cornell uni versity experimental station lehigh university south bethlehem pa wednesday june 17 1896 the baccalaureate sermon the brown and white jsto 66 vol 111 not indulged in to any extent but the crowd was well ac commodated with chairs this was the third calculus cremation under the new order of things and if future ones are as successful as these three have been the custom will never die out at lehigh faith in the life to come — the life made possible by christ's suffering taking these three principles with you success is sure and with it peace here and endless joy and glory hereafter history of lehigh a historical sketch of lehigh r written by edmund m hyde,ph.d 7 . l.h.d professor of latin and published by david b hall 96 is now on sale in packer hall it is a neat little volume ot 45 pages in addition to 17 full page cuts the sketch itself is admirably written and appeared first in the university magazine it was pre pared in the form in which it ap pears in this volume for the class book just issued by the class of 96 and was published separately at the request of the alumni ex cellent taste is shown as well in the selection of the material as in its arrangement the views of the different buildings and portions of the campus will bring back to every alumnus fond memories of his college days and the excellent pictures of the trustees presidents and members of the faculty will recall scenes and incidents pleasant and otherwise from the classroom mr hall deserves great credit for his efforts in getting out this book which is worth many times its price to any one interested in the lehigh university seniors entertained yesterday afternoon the beauti ful grounds surrounding the presi dents house in lehigh university park were dedicated to a new use to which they were admirably adapted from 4 until 6 o'clock president and mrs drown gave a garden party to the members of the senior class nearly 100 in num ber this special entertainment of the graduates of the university is a very happy innovation made by dr and mrs drownf which the success of yesterday's affair amply proved dr and mrs drown received their gnests unassisted but resident members of the senior class intro duced out-of-town graduates to the young ladies present and made the occasion one of delightful social intercourse for which it was in tended miss frazier and miss rawle poured and ices and other appro priate refresements were bounti fully served those present included the mem bers of the class of 96 members of the faculty and their wives and many young ladies of the town baseball lehigh 7 u of pa 6 last wednesday the lehigh team journeyed to philadelphia to do battle with the strong team rep resenting the university of penn sylvania and were victorious by the above score this is the first time in four years that lettish has been able to down pennsylvania on the diamond and it was only done after a hard fought game the team has been playing a much better game than it did during the first half of the season and win ning from pennsylvania was a fitting finish to a rather un successful season the team as a whole played well but the batting of lowe senior and e grace and a catch by reed of wilhelm's line hit in the fourth inning were the features while for pennsylvania blakeley carried off the honors for the first five innings lehigh was blanked not a man getting beyond second base in the sixth eehigh scored two runs after two men were out after w gannon and carman had been retired e grace and lowe singled in succession and both came in on senior's two-base-hit which might have been counted for three bags had not he slipped down in the mud while turning first base w grace closed the inning being thrown out by hal loway in the eighth singles by lowe and e grace a two-bagger by senior a base on balls and an out netted lehigh two more runs in the ninth inning the score stood 6 to 4 in pennsylvania's favor reed and chasmar were each presented with a base on balls w gannon hit flyer second filling the bases chasmar came to the bat and cracked out a long fly to gray who failed to hold it reed scoring e grace then sent a scorching single to center scoring chasmar and w gannon thus winning the game with no one out pennsylvania scored a run in the first inning after two men had been retired middleton struck out holloway went out on a fly to e grace gray reached first on an error by t gannon and joh^cii singled advancing gray who crossed the plate on chasmar's muff of blakeley's fly jackson was thrown out at first in the next two innings only seven men went to the bat in the fourth pennsylvania added four runs to her score a base on balls to blakeley singles by jackson and tracy an error by senior hits by holloway and middleton and a stolen base combined with wil helm's long fly to reed tell the story pennsylvania scored her last run in the eighth on hits by jackson tracy and ritchie appended is the score continued on third page the baccalaureate sermon was preached by the rev w b bodine d d ot the church of our saviour philadelphia in spite of the rain the chapel was comfortably filled with friends of the graduating class and people of the bethlehems the services were conducted by bishop rulison and dr worcester dr bodine took as his text acts xxvi : 22-23 : " hav ing therefore obtained help of god i continue unto this day witnessing both to small and great saying none other things chan those which the prophets and moses did say should come that christ should suffer and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead and should show light unto the people and the gentiles these are the words of st paul and in them he links himself with moses the greatest of the old testament prophets plainly declar ing the principles by which both lives had been guided this text was chosen because it knit together two of the greatest men the world has ever seen and explains clearly to what their greatness was due the principles common to both in the strength of which they lived and by the power of which they became great were first : faith in an ever present god ; second faith in a suffering christ and third faith in the powers of a life to come these principles were dwelt upon at length as the guiding principles by holding fast to which any one in the nineteenth century as in the first century can lead a great and truly successful life and without which true greatness can not be obtained in conclusion he said : " thirty years ago i was just where you are now and i can fully understand your position and the great need you have of a guiding principle to stick to through life you are going on an untried journey in which you desire to find success i earnestly desire that you may have success not according to the world's judgment of success but as you yourselves shall judge when this life is o'er you are going out to engage in professions of all kinds but in every one true men are < ceded everywhere the call comes do right and honor god you will be tempted to give up the right the dishonesties of business may cause you to stagger ' the oppressor's wrong the proud man's contumely the pangs of despised love the law's delay may griev ously perplex the politician's selfish greed may make you shud der but faint not ! have faith in god and follow closely the dictates of conscience besides catch some thing of the spirit of heroic self sacrifice which was so characteristic of moses and paul and which has been behind every great life that was ever lived and then have calculus cremation once more calculus has been cremated by the sophomore class and as usual the affair was a great success in spite of many difficul ties the class of 98 have succeeded in giving a cremation which was in no way inferior to those which went before it a feature of the entertainment which might be called an innovation as there has been none for the last two years was a street parade clad in brilliant red robes the victorious sophs pre ceded by the bethlehem drum corps marched from the campus in double file and proceeded down new street they marched straight over to broad down broad to main down main to fourth and up brodhead avenue to the campus where they formed before the band stand then with the band at the head the procession moved down to the usual scene of the burning the crowd which was the largest ever assembled at cremation filled the level space and all the terraces adjacent to the pyre a package of red lights and roman candles was eagerly pounced upon by the sophs and soon the scene was lit up by numbers of brilliant crimson flames which shone with great effect upon the red gowns of the participants the candles were discharged with great effect one man having his gown burnt off his shoulders from the effects of one then the judge seated himself in his chair and the trial proceeded in order to be perfectly fair both olney and courtney were given a defender as well as an accuser but the case was so evidently in