Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-02-24
HILARIOUS STUDENTS.

Not Many OF Them Left in Town |
lint They Have Some Fun-Sophs
in Anticipated High Hats and Pelted
With Snowballs by Street Gamins.
Though large proportion of the stu
dent world left town Saturday to spend
Washington's birthday at home, still there
mores and freshmen left to celebrate yes
terday in mild manner. The day was a
delightful one, considered from a weather
standpoint, and the holiday proved very
acceptable.
A party of about one hundred sopho-
mores amused themselves as we'll as the
town by parading up and down the streets,
each Of the party proudly wearing hat
that increased his stature several inches.
And what hats! That well known refrain,
"Where did you, etc.," could have been
appropriately applied to each individual.
of shape, which probably did their first
service at an indefinite period be-
fore the Pilgrim fathers landed on
our bleak shores, and every succeeding
style down to the Knox and Dunlap latest
was represented as well, though these last
named were in the great minority. They
attracted no little attention, and were par
ticularly fascinating to the street urchins,
who quickly sized up the wearers as their
game. These little human gnats, swarm
ing about with innumerable forces con-
stantly increasing, springing up, as it
! were, from the very ground, soon made a
| for the so-called ferocious "sophs," and a
| retreat en- masse back to the campus was
deemed advisable. This must have seemed
| to them, who are now in the midst of the
classics, not little like the difficulties
which the ancient legions in days of yore
experienced with the Parthians. who shot
their arrows as they fed.
Returning across the green, the fun was
of the most spirited order. The youngsters
made the air thick with snowballs, many of
which reached hat, and when charged up
on by the exasperated students, had time
to throw one more volley before running,
and of course they were not caught. They
would retreat, however, only SO far as was
necessary, and when their pursuers ceased
the chase they in turn became once more
the pursuers.
1t was a weary and half-disgusted party
of students that reached the friendly shell
ter afforded around on the other side of
Lawrence hall, and more than one man
felt kicking himself whose enthusiasm had
overcome his discretion to the degree that
instead of wearing some old thing for
burlesoue effect he had appeared in his
bright, new and sunshiny tile. intended
rather to win admiration from "my lady
fair" than to become target for small boy
SNOWFALL practice.
The freshmen did not achieve so much
notoriety, but they did take considerable
pride in swinging those new canes, es-
pecially the Shelf. men. The uninitiated
men at glance could distinguish the lat
ter from their academic brethren by that
superior twirl which they gave that six
dollar and half class stick of ugly de-
sign.
Dangers seem to have gone quite out of
style, and few only were sold last year,
aud fewer still was the number this year.
It will not be long before that article once
so important in the life of a Yale fresh
man will have become relic only found
in some interesting collection of antiqui-
ties.
The candidates for the crew enjoyed
their holiday by having row on the har-
| Dor all day. Captain Stevenson 80 has
been in town since Saturday and has been
giving the men a thorough dose of coach
ing.
A boat for the Harvard Boating club is
being built and will weigh about 200
pounds, or so pounds under the average
1t is being built by Davy of Cambridge.