The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-03-27
HAWAII AT YALE.

Mr.. EDITOR: When Judge Wayland
returned from his pleasant visit to Homo
lulu some years ago he remarked that
'Yale appeared to be running things
pretty we'll in Hawaii" and if Hawaiians
continue to flock to Yale the converse OF
that statement will be true. The list as
appended has heightened since the
writer modestly approached "senior on
the fence and inquired how he should
find "Bond rs"
The enclosed sketch shows how "the
fence" looks or what has taken its
place, appears now. Perhaps Judge
Foster would be kind enough to frame it
and hang it in the Police Court where
all good Yale men must needs see it
sooner or later.
The triumphal march on which Yale
started two years since met trouble on
the Berkely Oval last Thanksgiving Day,
and after rolling in mud fathOms deep to
slip through the grasp of the Princetons,
found that like the historic colored
brother they had "dirtled their new
coats for nothing"
Since that event all hands from
"Prexy" Dwight to the scullion OF "the
cloisters'' have tried to solve the ques-
ton "who are these Princeton giants? ?"
Amongst the various theories that have
been branched are the following OF
which you can take your choice: Gun
der graduates, past graduates, profess
SIGNALS, new theology men, remnants OF
the lost tribes and sons of Anak' that
we're left over when Joshua invaded
Canaan" The last seems most plau-
sible, and causes the Hawaiian crowd to
shout derisively "heaha ka la keia?'
The wisdom OF the faculty's course in
ordering the annual "Glee Club Concert
and Junior Promenade to take place in
midwinter rather than at commence
ment season is now apparent. An
extra gathering of nOtab.es is brought
to town to cheer the hotel keepers
and hack-drivers with some extra
shekels. The q" college widows" and
young buds =" have had their dance be.
fore the severe fasting of the Lenten seq.
son ,.and the facilitating effect of the
spring season made them less springy
and "scraggy. The Glee Club has
&" gleed" the very fresh, and verdant
Freshies have glued the Sophs at the
same time, and the attendant rush u
| has come off on the makai portion o.
the old green, where the " finest force
on earth I" could witness it from comfort
able positions at the windows of the City
Hall, thereby saving much fatigue il
walking five or six blocks I" to lool
afther thin college byes." The junior
thanks to the mild weather, the Univer
sity crew were able to show the fai
visitors sample of genuine college worl
at old Yale!
The only real drawback to the entir'
success is the absence of the old Stat
| House, which has been demolished an<
scattered to the four winds.
The oldest inhabitant cannot remem
Der a winter with so much April weather
All along the shore farmers can plOy
even to this last day of January. Dealer
in coal, ice, thick clothing and furs hav
been very unhappy, but who can pleas
everybody? A young man who was ono
in the telephone service in Honolulu
complained to me yesterday because ''h
had to wear an ulster in New Haven an
could dispense with that and good dea
more in Honolulu"
II was either Hiel or Ben ]. who one
growled over the most lovely day tina
the sea was 50 blue quite forgot t
ask him whether he would like it blac
or red. Probably the former as he was
blacksmith.
The death of Prof. C A. Lyman on tn
10Th, removes another of the links tina
united New Haven and Yale to tn
former generation OF Hawaiians. Fror
his having been a teacher OF many of tn
young chiefs sometime in the ''forties,
he retained as lively interest in educa
: tional matters there as does the venel
; able Professor Dana in volcanoes an
} earthquakes on Hawaii. Their interes
in Hawaiian affairs was very inspiring
any kamaaina who visited them.
! MAIJTIINI