Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-02-24
FREsHmEN,s DAY.

Bold and Brave = Naughty Shelf.
Men Mount Giddy Heights and
make 1t Warm for Upper Glass
Men-The1r Yesterdays Exploits.
Washington's birthday is an eventful day
to the freshman, as then he begins to swing
cane and become thoroughly domesticated
as member of the college. This years
Dangers surpassed any on record, being of
enormous size and weight. The freshmen,
especially of Shelf, have crowned themselves
with glory by raising flags displaying the
class numerals. Yesterday '87 S. suspended
a flag on the city flag wire running across
Church street in front of City Hall. There
it tapped in the faces of the juniors, who
were exasperated beyond endurance. The
freshmen were tricky enough to secure the
cooperation of the officials of the fire depart
ment and hung the flag on wire rings and
pushed it out with pole on the flag wire
which runs from the battery room on the top
floor of City Hail. The juniors took in the
situation at once and some of them ran for
poles and hooks and others rushed for the
City Hall. The latter did their best to bride
the keeper of the battery room, offering him
thirty dollars to let them enter. But he had
been bribed too well by the freshmen, and it
was useless. He put planks against the door
and told the juniors that they would enter
only over his PROSTATE form. At last the
disheartened juniors left him and went to the
Mayor and strove to get his influence to help
| them remove the odious flag. There, too,
they were unsuccessful. Meanwhile another
party of juniors had reached the roof with
their poles and boat hooks. With these
| they crawlsd out to the gable and
| tried to hook up the flag while holding on by
the skin of their teeth. The freshmen wor-
I riedly ran about beseeching every one to
| order the juniors off the roof. However, after
much work in the cold wind the juniors
! hooked into the flag and were just about to
seize it, when the worthy keeper reached out
aud seized it, tearing it as it were almost
from their very hands. The freshmen howl
ed wildly and the juniors shrieked despon-
IDENTIFY, the latter driving the freshmen as far
away as they could.
Soon Fire Marshal Kennedy and Mr..
Smith, superintendent of fire alarm, ap-
peared with the city flag which they were
to suspend on the wire leading from the bat
terry room. The juniors rushed frantioally
afser them, but the doors were shut in their
faces and they were again left" IN the cold
without sis flag. The freshmen arranged
with parties in the room to throw flag
from the window purporting to be the real
dag 1t was thrown and both parties rushed
for it, but the Juniors got it with
out much difficulty and then it was
found to read 1886 sold," and they were
sold indeed, as when the city flag appeared
on the wire the little blue one with '87 S. on
it was dangling under it. The juniors were
wild and the freshmen jubilant over their
great victory. So large q crowd gathered
that the police had to disperse it. The jun
iors did their best to get the flag, but Super
intendent Smith guarded the door and kept
them back. The freshmen have outwitted
the juniors and may rest content that their
doings in celebration of Washington's birth
day will not soon be surpassed.