Morning journal and courier., 1888-06-20
mAnnIns DOWN. rnE FENoR.

,rne Historic Rails Presented To the |
 Class of '9I With the Usual Cere- |
 monies-Possibly the End of An old
 Custom
 The sophomores presented that portion of Yale's historic fence known as the sopho- moro fence to the freshmen last evening with the usual orations. Mr. Stowe Phelps spoke in behalf of the class of go, and MT. Albert Lee for '91.f The exercises were of unusual interest in view of the recent decree of the corporation that the fence must go, which may necessitate the cessation of this ancient custom Both orators were unusnlly witty and were listened to by the customary large crowd. MT. Phelps spoke in part as follows:
 Gentlemen and Freshman Mills:
 am going to address my remarks this evening to '91, so the rest of you will please excuse me if make use of my simple one l syllable words that they may all understand what am saying, but anyone IS at liberty I to throw an elongated ovoidalRof ceraceous l and albumenous eoagulation of galanaceous vitality at me if this elementary style be- ! comes too trying. Since have had occasion | lately to look into the components of this | the freshest, should say largest class that | ever entered Tale, I have been continually \ SnTDfl8o0 | able men '91 contains. Perhaps you reEaem- ber the night of the rush. know it doesn't \ bring back very pleasant recollections to your | minds, for you did get pretty well done up | and it must be admitted that go treated you
 rather severely, especially as she had no cause for feeling revengeful, having had 1t all he own way the year before; but merely zzsh to take your memories to that tiRe way \ back in freshman year"
 | In every set of men (and I 1eel that am | not incorrect in applying the Ame linen" to | '91 for Macbeth once wbd addressing the freshmen at some uniyeSity in Scotland re- kmarked, "Ay, in t]s catalogue ye pass for men.'1 In eyeE9Set, repeat, are to be found those in Wk6 we can discern the latest \ genius of N6future lawmakers of the country, future efesidents of banks (ssfaro banks" ! .I66, embryo statesmen and coming jaiI-
 slrds. Every one knows Freddie, the great big, curly headed Newfoundland pup, who, with his childish innocence, when asked at Traeger's what he would have, replied |: "Well, I don't know. I guess some ice creaml"
 There is only one other neaplus ultra ana tomical phenomenon that I want to mention. It has bewitching bang, and therefore never wears it's hat anywhere except on the extreme rear of its head for fear of disarranging it (the bang). Chewing gum is his principal diet, so far as can see, but it doesn't appear to be very nourishing, for he always has a far away, hungry look on his face. I will not attempt to describe the. many accomplish ments of this youth, such as his harmonious singing in the unharmonious choir or. his playing ball with the grace and eclat of a Ford Huntington. He is of very bashful and retiring disposition or else I would tell you his name, but just as pointer, how- ever, the first letter of it is Mills.
 But to speak in less serious vein. This giving you the fence this year looks like k0fA f0n1 hircr aa we had tied string to the fence and then, just as you were beaming over with delight at the thought of sitting down on 1t, we had suddenly jerked it away and left you on the ground. It is not go but the corporation that is yauking the string. But come '91 and take the fence and you mad bet ter sit on it from now till the time you go home, for who knows when you will get an other chance. am truly sorry that you are deprived of this pleasure almost before you receive it, but be assured that we all, both undergraduates and alumni, will feel more than you possibly can the loss of this dear old associate, the fence.
 A few of the things Mir. Lee said are given herewith:
 Gentlemen of go and classmates-Ic can readily understand the statement of my eloquent and facetious predecessor that the class of go are sorry that the time to give up the fence has come at last, and it is not at
  never heard of a sophomore yet who wanted to leave place where there were any bars; excepting, perhaps, our friend Frenohy, who got stranded on sand bar in the harbor few weeks ago and had to take an involun- tary bath to get his boat afoat again. But mingled with all this grief, I think that down in the bottom of sos heart, if she has any, there is feeling of pleasure and relief now that she has gotten rid of this fence, which has lately attracted so much attention. For it seems to me that with all this high flown oratory and display of generosity the class of go is selling goods which she cannot deliver. She pretends to give us the fence, but when we return next fall and wish to repose sopho- mores upon those rails so soothingly adjusta- ble to the human form, what will we get? Nothing. go offers us @ fence which is no fence at all. It was during sos administra- tion, gentlemen, that the fence was lost, not during 91's.
 I want to say in starting out that sos reps utation is spotless. It is all black. She has not many shining lights either; in fact, she is pretty dark as @ whole, and now that I come to think of it most holes are dark. There seems to be an opinion current that so. You must not think because their class numerals resemble a double zero that the class is also double blank.
 Whom could we better begin with than the gentleman who has just been making an assault upon the English language from this very platforma If his tone of voice had only been as loud as his dress sometimes is the more distant part of my listeners might have been able to hear something of what he had to say. But we should be indulgent with him on the score of his manner of dress, for we must remember that his roommate lwhen he is not running mile) is usually wearing the orators clothes. think that anyone who attended the Glee club concert last winter will say that '91's birds did their duty we'll.
 But now let us put a1ljoking aside and re- turn to our subject. It is serious subject. Perhaps more serious this year than it has been before.
 The classes who took the fence in former years looked forward with feeling of pleas. ure to 6 year of fence life. We of '91 look into future full of danger for the fence Put, nevertheless, we are grateful for it and we accept the fence to-day with the same spirit that has characterized all our pre- decessors, and from what little experience we have already had, farther down the street, I know that we shall appreciate the sopho- more fence as one of the great factors in our life at Yale.
 A BROKEN AXLE.