1 - Library and Information Technology

The Beginning of the Second Epoch in Bueknell's HistoryHE year 1909 is noted in univel-sal I-Iistory for t\vo things: tlie appearanceof Halley's comet up011 tlie celestial horizon and the ascensionTof the class of 1913 into the scl~olastic heavens. Both of these phenolnella1iax.e heen the subject of inuclm d~scussion among advanced t11inl;ersof the present d:~y. IIII~ fen. seem aide to cr>ml)rehe~xl the almost infinite greatnessand sul~limity of either. Tlie coniet Ii:~s 11o\\- passed beyond and weleave it to the astrrrimomel- and his telesc~q,;: l~utlme class of rgrs, still in itsyo11tl1 and dory. \ve shall seek to examine :ind follrnv in its course \vitlm theunlriaserl and 1111:1i(lecl eye of the time histoi-ian.l'he ai-1-ival nf tlie class of 1913 ill I.e\\isI>~~r.y \vas tlme hegiimililm~ of anew epoch in Rnckncll History. ?re\-ions to this time the incomin~ class waslookccl 11pon \\it11 inurl~ ,lisfa\r>i-. jeere(l at, in;ulte(l xnrl treated as rank barbarians:I~ut the class anner of 1914. The contesttook lllace on the c~~llepe I~attle-field 31111 \\-as of short d~ratiolm. 111 three ~mlinutesand nine secmmds tlie dauntless I\-ar1-iors of '13 Iiad their puny opponentstied hatmll and font and \Yere passing them to the ladies for hutton-hole I)ouquets.The folknvil~g day all temporal Im\\.er \\-as surremlered into the handsof the victorious class of '13. and right heroically did it assu~ue the increasedresponsil~ility of legislation and esecution of Ian. in college and town. Thecode of laws formed and adopted \vas conspicuously posted thi-ouglm UnionCounty on that ivell Izno~vn nidit of Octd~er. 1910. Pew offenses againstthese statutes have heen committed l~y those uim(ler the la\\.. Ilut those few verilyhave felt the bitter sting of the mightily \viel~lecl ferule and heard the chillycliclc of the fleece-cestroyg shears.At present date the class of 1913 is entrusted xith the actual ru~lni~lgof the University; it Inanages the I~usiness and l~olitical affairs of the town;it operates and controls the Readiiig Itaill-0x1 Iiri(lge. and holcls exclusive