Excerpt from Register of the Trustees, Officers and Students of the Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Penn'a, for the Year 1878-79, With the Plan of Organization and Course of Instruction: Tuition Free The original object of Judge Packer was to afford the young men of the Valley 3. Complete technical education for those professions which had developed the peculiar resources of the surrounding region. Instruction was to be liberally provided in Civil, Mechanical and Mining Engineering; Chemistry, Metallurgy and Construction, and in all needful collateral studies. French and German were made important elements in the collegiate course. A School of General Literature was a part of the original plan, together with tuition in the ancient Classics, while the Institution was freely Opened to pupils from every part of the country and the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.