The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-05
The following table exhibits the number
of colleges in each State of the Union
INCIDENT OF THE ALUMNI DINNER AT
YALE

Avery aged gentleman then rose in his
place on the platform, and stated that he
belonged to the class of 1910. 1t was very
affecting to hear him tell, in accents trem-
bling with age and emotion, that only eight
of that class we're living, and that of them
but four of them were able to be present
on this occasion. He held a large sheet of
yellow and ancient looking paper in his
hand, which he said was a catalogue Of the
officers and students of Yale College in
1906, when he was q Freshman. away"
said he, "when this was handed me the
other day, l rejoiced more than if 1 had
found q tablet with the old Roman laws
inscribed Upon it. 1t had several pin holes
through it, and had evidently once adorned
some aspiring Freshman's door. Among
the names upon it were the following:
Timothy Dwight, D. D., President and
Professor OF Divinity ; Jeremiah Day, A.
M, Professor of Mathematics and Benz.
SilimaD, NJ. D., Professor of Natural His
tory and Chemistry.
THE ABOLITION OF "BIKNNIALs.D
Biennial examination at Yale has been
abolished, annual examinations being sub
stituted. On this topic a correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial discourses as
follows:
Although there is certainly very much
about q Biennial that is exceedingly
troublesome, those of US, at least, who
have once undergone the scsthing ordeal,
cannot but regret that the institution has
been done away with. For, besides the ter
rOrs, there are many pleasant memories
that gather round 8 Yale Biennial, and of
a character which belongs to nothing else
we know of. Who that has ever been
through one, does not remember with what
zest he used to roar out, "Biennials are 8
bore" in deafening chorus with his class
mates, when perched upon the old college
fence, with his grotesque Biennial hat upon
his head, and the significant pen behind
his ear, after escaping from one of the tor
turing scenes so often enacted beneath
"those dread twin towers of old Alumni
HAlI2 Who that has once experienced
the feeling, can eVer forget with what &C.
static Joy he rushed out of that execrable
den for the last time, after "Sophomore
Mathematics" and tossed his hat high in
air, knowing, yet scarcely realizing the
stupendUous fact, that st last, after weeks
of examining, skinning, and wasting ofthe
midnight oil, Biennial wss over indeed.
The classes of 1865 and 1867 have had
the honor of going through the last senior
and sophomore biennisls that will proba-
bly, ever be held at Yale. The class of
1868, now exalted sophomores, thinking
that as they were to insugurate the custom
of ANIMALS, they ought to have a Jolly good
time about it came out in black Oxford
annual hats, and after they got through
the examination, went off on Thursday last
with fine band and in high spirits, TO cell
citrate their deliverance from its perils with
q grand dinner and iolliacstion. At noon
on the day following, the class of 1867,
having passed the terrors of the last bien-
nisI, marched to the depot from Alumni
Hall, TO the inspiring strains of "Tramp,
tramp, tramp, the boys are marching"
with their hearts bounding with uncOn-
troIlable and %uprosrious Joy at the thought
Of their troubles over, and the grand j1bi-
lee before them. At their head was borne
by four carriers, q tombstone with the fol-
lowing inscription "Non resurgann. Hic
jGest biennial Let him rip. Abiit IN norte,
July 81, 1865, aged fifteen years )" and on
the top of it was laid, as though stiff in
death, a recumbent figure representing the
beloved deceased. 1t was afterwards bur-
led, with all due reverence and decornm,
and a funeral sermon preached by one of
the class, roted in a long black gown, who
had been selected to ~ofIiciate as priest. 1t is
impossible for any n who has not
felt it, TO conceive Of the wild delight of a
class of new asdged juniors on such an
occasion. I'D
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