Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-25

F Meyer, Chicago;
 divided between H L Leonard and W Tevis; in
 physics Theodore Case, Hartford; in chemistry,
 lington, Pa with honorable mention of " W Alter bury, Mich, and R A Williams, of Canterbury. In
 Haven, 0 Townley, Cincinnati; 2nd to W Darling ton, A H Davis, Watertown, and Herr, Denver; nah. Ga; W D Johnson, New Haven H L Leonard, Washington, ana Wadsworth, Glencoe. Minn. Eighty-One's Glass Boy.
 The TrienntaI Supper-A Large Crowd in nAttendnnce-POem by H. s. Durand and Speeches by Isaac Bromley and Frank w. Fargo, the Proud Father. \ little blue-eyed babe was accorded high honors at Loomis' Temple of Music last even ing. Hundreds of gaily dressed ladies crowded the hall and cran2d their necks to catch glimpse of the hero of the hour. That hero however, was unconscious of all attention.
 He was accompanied by his mother, daughter | of George Watkinson, and a nurse. He laughed and cried, threw out his chubby,
 dimpled hands, pulled his fathers beard, and was all broken up" when daring alumnus ! of '81 presumed to imprint kiss upon his dimpled chin. But when the band began to play his wounded feelings were assuaged and he continued his faverite occupation of try> ing to turn somersaults in his nurses lap.
 
 | assembled at the campus and, headed by the American band, marched to the hall. The meeting was presided over by A. E. Bost- wick He first introduced as the poet of the I occasion. Harry S. Durand. MT. Durand's poem was extremely felicitous. Some of Its stanzas were as follows:
 Sweet infant thou at least: hast youth. Accord.n to rtsident Porter
 Thine idea of the external world is only 8 general principle;
 And the distance to the silver greater no shorter
 Than the distance to that silver cup, any more invincible.
 Hast thou for t, moons possession cried. offer subetitution;
 Be thou contented for few are they who come to
 Possessing spoon Of silver, while thou by revolu
 Of fortune's wheel art born to cup fashioned from that same metal.
 Proclaim1pg him B. A. to all their presents come
 He is Bachelor of Arts till single lfe's forsaken The B. A. then 10 longer holds according to my conceiting.
 His hard earned Yale diploma through his marriage Go hide the parchment thing away within Upon some Closets dusty shelf exemp. from his horsewife's cleanipg g.
 bachelor.
 But is it lost forever then? sIr," says the grave physician,
 "An heir has just been born to you" And thus it
 At all judge of logic he reeains his lost position
 He gains a new ploma, sirs, a B-A, ba, BY, by.
 MT. Isaac Bromley made the presentation speech. He said:
 Ladies and gentlemen-There are customs
 and customs. The ceremony you are assem-
 bled to witness is in ac -ordance with a col-
 lege custom of great antiquity. The divine
 William speaks of customs that are more hon.
 ored in the breach than in the observance.
 This is one net only honored in the observ- ance now, but that shall be doubly honored in
 pair of brooches hereafter. If this were ex- clusively your entertainment, and the hall
 rent and hire of the band were not coming on, and the fellows were not hungry and
 many of them dry, and the parents of the
 hero of this occasion wern't nervous, and the class boy himself were not liable at any ment to fling his brawny arms eloft and punctuate the performance with Chicago yell-if, in short, it were not to night, but smother night I should like to devote an hour or two to the history and significance of this touching and beautiful custom. Let 1t suffice that no man can re- member the class that did not rejoice in class boy, and that there was never 8 class boy who was not greeted with cup; during the middle ages, usually a hic-eup, brought home by his father. The honor of being the class boy has been assiduously sought after in all ages of the world. The world is full to day of men who have just failed of being class boys, and are constantly bewaillng their neglected opportunities President Porter expressed the feelings of thousands of these, when, standing before the bronze figure of Class Boy Abraham Pierson, he remarked with profound feeling, 1T would rather have been class boy than to be the author of the human intellect" Ladies and gentlemen, this is great occasion-youre very lucky in be- ing here. Eighty-one likewise is a great class. And we will presently show you class boy who can knock the stufing out of any other class boy of his age in three rounds, Mag quis of Queensbury rules.
 The first snow storm of the season visited Chicago on the 14th of December, 1883. In the midst of it's futtering flakes Alvin Wat somewhat flushed with his long journey, and turning the scales at ten pounds. ''Judg- ment!'' he shouted. throwing up his fat red hand. ''Have won the cup?" He was as- I sured that so far as Chicago was concerned he was ahead but that there were several other counties to be heard from before the thing could be decided. ''All right" said the noble youth. "While we're waiting for the cup, just pass the bottle It was passed, and Alvin ''caught on" There was an inter- val of suspense. Nothing ever happens at Chicago without an interval of suspense. The  whole paper of pins fall and slight fall in pork was heard as far away as New York In the midst of it all Alvin Watkinson Fargo occasionally winked at the old folks. clung to the bottle and waited for the returns to come in. After his first inquiry he refused to dis cuss the question of his candidacy even with his most intimate friends. His good iudg- ment in this regard has since been initiated with remarkable success. It was reported st one time that ''dark horse'' had come ip ahead, and Alvin, hearing the rumor, re- marked to the old man, ''Never mind, my old rosebud, whack up your three dollars and support the ticket"
 After further discoursipg on the situation at Chicago and giving the father some excellent | advice about the care of the boy, MT. Brom- | ley concluded as follows:
 Ladies and Gentlemen-This is our boy. |
 (Song-''For. he's a jolly good fellow" etc., sung by the class
 Alvin Watkinson Fargol We greet you at the beginning of great career. You are an | early bird. Doubtless you know what the l early bird gets, and doubtless you've had | lem. The class of '81 were longing like a 1 Hebrew mother for 8 man-child, and you came to us. We thank you for the cheerful | alacrity of your response, and in accordance | with time-honored custom. we adopt you as i our own frst-born; the child of our love and our pride. The only serious word belonging to this festive ceremony is reserved for you. You are our boy, and all our hearts go with you as you go out l upon hfes uncertain sea. In all your tri- umphs-may they be many-we shall rejoice; in all your tolls you shall have our sympathy and in diversity, if it comes, our hsl D. And now, on behalf of the class of 1881, present you this cup as the token of our adoption and the memorial of our love. May the pure wine of comfort and content ever sparkle on it's brim and leave no bitterness behind. With this pledge of our adoption we fill and pass this loving cup, drinking each one of us health, prosperity and long life to Alvin Wat kinson Fargo.
 When MT. Bromley was addressing the boy smiles broke out all over the little fel- lows face and he nestled his head modestly in his father's face and looked, as one lady it, ''too sweet to live"
 MT. Fargo responded with brief address in which he hoped that the boy would als ways remember that Yale was his alma ma4 ter and '8l his guiding star.
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