Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 55

              board expresses regret at president's retirement walter r okeson secretary of the board of trustees issued the following statement in acceding to president richards repeated suggestion that he be relieved of his heavy responsibilities the board of trustees faced a conflict of emo tions on the one hand was the con viction that lehigh would suf fer an irreparable loss on the other hand was the feeling in spired by deep personal affection for dr richards that he should consider his own health first and his job afterwards finally however realizing that the president was genuine ly worried over the possibility that his partial incapacity might impede the progress of the uni versity the board reluctantly agreed to allow dr richards to announce his retirement charles russ richards m.m.e sc.d ll.d eng.d w e lingelbach to speak june 11 regretfully — farewell in the resignation of president richards lehigh suf fers a loss which can never be replaced students who knew him were filled with respect admiration and faith in this man both for himself and for his great achievements in the upbuilding of lehigh university even those students who never came in contact with him realized that here was a man whose untiring efforts had put lehigh at the top of america's educational institutions and that accordingly they were indebted to him beyond hope of repayment president richards was an engineer but he was more v than just an engineer he was a humanitarian and held j high the ideals of art culture and all of the finer things in / life he set an example that every lehigh student can aim for but few achieve while he dreamed of well equipped buildings and laboratories for engineering work at the same time he planned for a more beautiful campus a larg er library and a broadening of the engineering curricula to develop the cultural side of the university and the stu ( dent to describe the character the vision the broadness of c president richards is an impossible task but the growth of / lehigh university in the past 1 2 years indicates to some ex ! tent this quiet yet powerful this visionary yet practical / man who placed lehigh's star in the ascendancy his first great achievement was his program for a greater lehigh " which resulter in the raising of two and a half million dollars to provide funds for the projected improvements continuing his original objective president richards devoted the ensuing 1 2 years of his administra tion to the materialization of his ambitious plans carefully wisely courageously he planned and worked strengthen ing the faculty revising educational procedure initiating research remodeling buildings setting up an efficient sys tem of business management — in short making lehigh university a nationally recognized institution of the highest caliber as the prestige of the university increased the stu dent enrollment grew rapidly increasing 50 per cent the faculty too was increased nearly 50 per cent the value of plant and equipment was doubled and the endowment funds were more than doubled every phase of the uni versity's activity flourished and even during the depression years president richards talent for business management enabled the university to operate without a deficit at any time this unique record a ar»©ng american colleges was made withoutjredwiingqhje 5 scate'of salaries without reduc in^ti*e\sii|ii,aim:rfe faculty beyond the proportionate drop s"*esiroltment without allowing plant or equipment of the university to fall below its high standards as a result lehigh's enrollment has held up miracurously during the depression and the faculty has continued to be of the high est caliber „-¦ fi^t *•* the work of president richards at lehigh is so var meof so great so impressive that an attempt to re-count it would fill many pages to those who know him the story of his achievements will indicate the unselfish devo tion the untiring efforts the patient unswerving idealism and the tremendous amount of application to his many problems that this man gave to the cause of making le high outstanding among educational institutions we the students of lehigh university feel that we i will never know a finer man nor — in his loss — be as i humbly appreciative of working under him and deeply / sorrowful at losing him ( senior class will banquet saltzer green carothers to address graduates at alumni day dinner reprinted from the tuesday edition the banquet of the graduating class of 1935 will be held at the hotel bethlehem at 7 p m on saturday june 8 speakers will be dr neil car others major j o green head of the department of military science and tactics morton sultzer 12 president of the lehigh alumni as sociation and w c dickerman president of the american loco motive company tickets will be on sale at drown hall and at all fraternity houses un til friday announces s r good rich chairman of the banquet com mittee the other member of the committee is w e mollenauer i e 35 netmen win final match middle three champions defeat gettysburg 8 1 ; seventh straight win the lehigh tennis team middle three champions finished its sea son tuesday with a decisive 8-1 victory over gettysburg on the home courts the lehigh players won almost effortlessly as only two matches went to three sets this was the seventh straight win for the brown and white mermen hollister lehigh captain finished his intercollegiate career with an easy victory over berkowitz 6-4 and 6-4 still feeling insecure on the in jured leg that has held up his game this season hollister made little ef fort to get difficult shots relying more on cagy court generalship dietz lehigh no 2 won over wolfe of gettysburg and hoppock continued his winning streak with a 6-4 and 6-4 victory over mcll haney hoppock has lost no match this year summaries singles hollister lehigh defeated berkowitz gettysburg 6-4 and 6-4 dietz lehigh won from wolfe gettys burg 6-1 and 6-1 hoppock lehigh won from mcllhaney gettysburg 6-4 and 6-4 austin lehigh defeated fink gettysburg 6-4 and 6-2 rand lehigh won from dunkelberger get tysburg 6-2 and 7-5 pharo lehigh defeated harold gettys burg 6-4 5-7 and 6-4 doubles hollister and gerlach lehigh defeated berkowitz and wolfe gettysburg 2-6 6-1 and 6-2 hoppock and austin lehigh defeated mc llhaney and fink gettysburg 6-4 and 6-4 dunkelberger and schmall gettysburg won from rand and pharo lehigh 6-4 and 7-5 j r hicks elected captain of next year's golf team reprinted from the tuesday edition john r hicks bus 37 was un animously elected captain of next year's golf team last night at the phi delta theta fraternity house letters were awarded to john r hicks winston k mathias m e 37 wesley l hemphill bus 36 and john m jester chem 36 henry coppee first of line of 6 was young est to assume office taught at west point lamberton first of group with no teaching duties drinker only living ex president first executive took office april 1 1865 from many professions have come the six men who have guided lehigh since it founding in 1865 henry coppee the first of the six was a soldier and a professor of english john mcdowell leavitt his successor was a lawyer minis ter and educator robert alexan der lamberton the third president was a lawyer thomas messinger drown the fourth president was a medical doctor and professor of chemistry henry sturgis drinker fifth president and now president emeritus was a mining engineer and a lawyer charles russ richards the last of the six is a mechanical engineer and an educator coppee taught literature henry coppee for whom coppee hall is named was professor of belles lettres english literature at the university of pennsylvania when on nov 4 1865 the trustees decided to tender him the office of president he accepted and on april 1 1865 took office ten years later in 1875 he re signed the presidency but remained here with the modest title of pro fessor of english literature inter national and constitutional law and philosophy of history he held this position until his death but on three occasions he was acting president the first time until his successor could be chosen the second dur ing the interim between the resig nation of president leavitt and the installation of mr lamberton and the third from 1893 to his death on march 21 1895 he is buried in nisky hill cemetery leavitt was second president john m leavitt the second pres ident of lehigh has the distinction of resigning that office to become president of st john's college an napolis mr he was born in 1824 at steubensville ohio at the age of 17 he was graduat ed from jefferson college he then studied law and practiced for four years in 1848 he became an epis copal minister he taught at ken yon college and later at ohio uni versity before coming to lehigh robert a lamberton was born april 26 1824 at carlisle pa he was graduated from dickinson col lege in 1843 and later studied law at harrisburg where he gained a state-wide reputation in 1871 he became a trustee of lehigh and in 1880 he was made president of the university he was the first pres ident who had no teaching duties he died on sept 1 1893 the first president to die in office and was buried at harrisburg thomas messinger drown le high's fourth president had ideas continued on page two new epitome is published dedicated to dr carothers the epitome for 1935 which is just off the press has been dedicat ed to dr neil carothers director of the college of business administra tion the epitome is lehigh's oldest undergraduate publication having been established by the class of 1878 in 1875 as a sophomore publication illness is reason for giv ing up position is not fully recovered from recent heart attack special committee of board appointed to find successor president will retire august 31 ; came to lehigh in 1922 from university of illinois president richards has resigned the resignation of charles russ richards as president of the uni versity was accepted at a special meeting of the board of trustees tuesday afternoon in the office of eugene g grace president of the board in new york city dr richards who was in educa tional work 42 years suffered a se vere heart attack last august and has not yet fully recovered for the past two months he has assumed part of his duties but his physician feels that it would be hazardous for him to take up his full duties a special committee of the board was appointed to find a successor to dr richards members of the committee are eugene g grace chairman samuel d warriner william c dickerman howard h mcclintic and walter r okeson secretary of the committee university his great concern the president placed the welfare of the university before his own health in resigning several times during the past year he has asked the board of trustees to allow him to resign rather than let him con tinue in a partial capacity and run the risk of letting the university suffer the board finally acceded to his request at the meeting on tues day in 1922 dr richards came to le high as president at the time of his acceptance he was dean of the continued on page two six colleges form psychology society staff of department here joins journal group reprinted from the tuesday edition a psychology journal club com posed of the staffs of the psychol ogy departments of lehigh and of five other colleges has recently been formed announces prof adelbert ford head of the department of psychology swarthmore temple bryn mawr lafayette lehigh and the university of pennsylvania are the institutions thus far affiliated with the club which plans to hold monthly meetings during the college year research work and original con tributions of the departmental staffs of each college will be discussed there will also be reports on ar ticles in psychology journals which are linked with the projects in hand the first meeting will be in the ear ly part of november and other meetings are to be held at the other schools in turn with the head of the department at each school as host university of pennsylva nia history professor to address graduates on world in transition dr beardslee will deliver baccalaureate sermon june 9 annual class day exercises on june 1 0 to include tra ditional flagpole ceremonies reprinted from the tuesday edition dr william e lingelbach pro fessor of modern european history at the university of pennsylvania will deliver the main address at the sixty-seventh commencement exer cises tuesday june 11 on the world in transition dr lingelbach is the author of several historical treatises and es says such a paradoxes of post war europe the doctrine and practice of intervention and control of foreign affairs a native of canada he received his bachelor's degree from the uni versity of toronto in 1894 he was a fellow of the university of leip zig in germany in 1895 and receiv ed his doctor's degree from the university of pennsylvania in 1901 he has been professor of modern european history and head of the department at various times since 1903 at this university degrees in course and honorary degrees will be conferred at the ex ercises the recipients of the hon continued on page two six presidents who have guided lehigh s destinies since school was founded by asa packer in 1865 charles r richards mechanical engineer educator 1922-1935 henry s drinker mining engineer lawyer 1905-1920 john m leavitt lawyer and minister 1876-1880 thomas m drown doctor chemistry teacher 1595-1904 henry coppee soldier english teacher 1868-1875 robt a lamberton lawyer 1880-1898 vol xlii no 55 resigns as president of lehigh bethlehem pa thursday may 23 1935 price five cents the lehigh university brown and white president c r richards resigns his post trustee board accepts resignation at meeting tuesday in new york presidents came to lehigh from varied positions seniors must buy tickets before tomorrow night tickets for the senior class banquet must be obtained by to morrow evening announces s r goodrich chairman of the banquet committee the tickets are on sale at drown hall and all fraternity houses extra edition extra edition