The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-10-02
An Amusing scene.

The graduates of Yale College have a queer
custom OF coming back, after graduation. and
presenting silver cup to the first married
graduate who can produce his wife and babv
lnsnpport OF his pretensions to being the lead
er IN The domestic line. The New Haven
correspondent of the New York Tribune gives
the foNowIng sccount of tie presentation by
She CESS OF "a to class-mate who was the
INST to win the honors OF wedock and pater
nifty. p"'0,
this odd notion is not vet peculiar to
ale, 1t must be at least, should think. De-
cuisr 10 America. 1t certainly has an air of
originality that gives it a decided relish.
We slowly pushed up into the supper room
Whefe we found the class of "a seated about
laoies ranged along two sides and across the
upper end OF the roou, while the company
1ouno seats IN plenty on settees ranged between
tnese 1aoies and The wall. Then the gallery
at the opposite end was filled, and the bench
es were Shen brought and placed across the
open square, and when all were seated.
it would have been hard to find anywhere a
brighter CT more cheerful audience than this.
maze UP almost entirely of young men and
young women, with younger bows and girls.
All at once there was a clapping of bends. and
ilgnt bursts OF laughter, and the audience rose
70 US reef as The young husband and his wife,
anu tile nurse carrying the baby, and the es-
cort On friends came in and passed to their
seats st the upper end of the hall The hus-
pena and father, Rev. Walter W. Pattershall.
mas reason TO be proud Of the baby and its
motner; II was pretty to see the lady's grace
fui, unsolicited way of taking her honors. and
pretty 10 watch the little baby of ten months
acting before these two or three hundred peo
pie As unconsciously as if he were in his own
nursery To see him take the CUP, which was
almost as big as himself, into his little hand.
ana put 1t right away to its mouth, and then
iook up and crow out the most unintelribIe
thsnks 10 the gentlemen that gave it to him.
ana lhen take another drink and then flour
ISM u Ia the air to thai extent that
II looked every minute as If he
Were going to throw it over his head.
anu then TO see the stolid way IN which he took
the three cheers for the baby, and the three
cneers for the father, and the three for the
family, never once winking, but throwing in a
Tiger IN the shape of a lusty crow at the end
OF every osttery, and then getting ready for
tne next by taking long pull at his cup. all
thls was wonder to behold. 1.-The understood
tne speakng he must have found it very good
lndeed. lie listened as fhe understood il. and
s1 straight up IN his nurses lap, while Mfr.
,TrmOney poured out, with the grayest face in
tne Wo:,d, his excellent jokes and puns; when
Mr. Ankei, With admirable tact and delicacy
sent ~ OF Us outsiders home, begging us to es-
COT the baby, who the class thought. ought by
LOIS time, it being then one o'clock, to be in
PED. Nsster Frederick submitted to be carried
on WITH the best grace in the world, and bade
US all good night with another flourish of the
cup ana the merriest succession of crows that
ever baby gave. -"