Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-08-16

The graduates of Yale College have a
queer custom of coming buck after
graduation, and presenting silver cup
to the first married graduate who can
produce his wife and baby In support
Of his pretentions to being the leader
in the domestic lire. The New Haven
correspondent of the New York 7ri-
bnne gives the following account of
the presentation by the class OF "a to
q class mate who was tile first to win
the honor Of wcdlock and paternity:f
~ If this odd notion is not peculiar 10
Yale, 1t must be at least, / should
tainly has an air of originality THAT
gives IL decided relish. We
slowly pushed up into the supper
room, where we found the class of
'64 seated about tables arranged along
two sides and across the upper end Of
the room, while the company found
seats in plenty on settees ranged be-
tween these tables and \, the wall.
Then the. gallery at the opposite end
wns flied, and then benches were
brought and placed across the
open square, and when all were
seated 1t would have been hard to fini
anywhere q brighter or more cheerful
audience than this, made up almost
entirely by young men and young
women, with younger boys and girls
All at once there was o clapping Of
hands and light burst Of laughter, and
the audience rose to its feet as the
young husband and his wife, and the
nurse carrying the baby, and the escort
of friends came in and passed to their
seats at the upper end of the hall. The
husband and father, the Rev. Walter
!" nottnrShon hoa m hn ~ MI
both Of the baby and It's mother; II was
pretty to zee the lady's graceful, unaf-
fectel way Of taking her honors, and
pretty to watch the little baby OF ten
months acting before those two or three
hundred people as unconsciously as Ii
he were i'm his own ,nurYery. 10 sec
him take the cup, which was almost as
big as himself, into his little hand, and
put it right away to his mouth, and
then look up and crow out the most
unintelligible thanks to the gentle
man who gave Ii to him, and then
take another drink, and then flourish
IL In the air to that extent that IL look
ed every minute ns IL he were going TO
throw IL over his head and then to see
the stolid way in which he took the
three cheers for the baby, and the
three cheers for the father, and three
cheers for the mother, and three cheers
for the family, never once winking, but
throwing in a tiger" In the shape
of lusty crow, ut the end Of each bat
terry, and then getting ready for the
next by taking o long pull at his cup;
all this was q wonder b~beliold Ii he
understood the speaking he must have
found 1t, as we did, very good indeed.
He listented as Ii he understood 1t. and
sat upon his nurses lap, while Mr..
Whitney poured out, with the gravest
face In the world, his excellent jokes
and puns; and when Mr.. Anketel,
with admirable tact and delicacy, sent
all of ms outsiders home, begging us to
escort the baby, who, the class thought,
ought by this time. IL being then one
O'clock, TO be In bed. Master Frederick
submitted to be carried off with the
best grace I'm the world, and babe us all
good-night with another flourish Of the
cup and the merriest succession Of
crows that ever baby gave. :. s 80