The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-03

TINE slbDENI Al iAbf,
you may have read. What is high
Allowance Well, three thousand dollars IL
considered exceptional Do 1 know many
Yale men who spend that much in colleges
No, l do not. once in a while, man
comes here who thinks 20 cut swell
but his efforts are discouraged. You zee
we all want to be alike. None OF my
friends has a horse, consequently / have
none. Nor are the best societies closed
10 poor men. | know IL to be a fact
that II a student is too poor 20 pay club
fees. etc, they are paid for him by those
who appreciate his brains. Did you know
that Whitney IL a Phi Beta Kappa manr
He is a high stand fellow. | think he
leads any of our set. lie Is a hard stu
dent. although not greasy grind
Tranquil are the joys OF life at old
Yale. To the casual observer, aside from
the daily routine Of books the amuse-
ments, possibly with the exception Of
football and such sports, seem tame
certainly I'm them, the lavish expenditure
OF money has no part. Many OF the men
are occupied i'm the class rooms only In
the morning having the afternoon 10 do
their own bidding The simplest acts Of
life, in a college town, are invested with u
pleasure not to be appreciated by one
who lives outside Of Yale associations.
l saw, for illustration, group OF boys,
bending eagerly over the bulletin board
laughing and joking al what they saw
advertised. To the stranger, the notices
consisted Of commonplace advertisements
from landladies wishing dodgers. table
boarders. etc, with here and there an
aside from some man who says:-"Lost IL
small leather purse. reward IL returned to
2224 Welch Hall" Then there was this
droll card:-'A word TO studentsl You are
invited 10 call at our store, with your
trousers. to be pressed and creased, for
twenty-five cents. Also, a full line OF
fall and winter wOolens." And this coll
lege joke:-"Take noticel l have the fin
est line Of furniture, baby carriages, re
frigerators, crockery, stoves, etc, In
town" There is the true spirit OF col
lege hufor in this bit Of verse. which
some rascal had pasted on the bulletin
carried a watch before the prom,
The watch had a chain and the chain
charm
All Of gold-"tick-t ticl1-tock."
The prom. is gone and what shall do?
For the watch and the chain, and the
charm are, too
All gone-"in hoe; I'm hoe"
peep at Yale at short range is found
i'm the odd conceits used by the boys 10
express. in college Yernacular ideas in
some intense form. A great fusser' is
Yale slang for man who is delighted
with the society of ladies' To wait in at
tendance on a fair New Haven belle IS
called, consequently. "fussng." Il do not
horse for the fellow" means that the
speaker does not like the man kto whom
he referred. Il can't split his wood" IS
an expression of the same sort. Wood
up!' means 'be enthusiasticw IL also
has another significance not quite as
clear, but effective. as "He didn't wood
up cent? pretty girl is called a
smooth girl. a boarding house becomes.
to Yale man, IAN eating joint" Many
words are cut in pieces, thus: "Prex"
means president; prom" is promenade,
or prom. COM" is promenade committee,
coop" is Cooperative; "old Eli" is a
familiar expression for a Yale student:
SONS Of old Elf means much the same
The small ground back OF the gymnasium
is the gym lot" Divinity students are
''theologs." Anything that is not desirable
clean or pretty, is said 10 be "cheesy."
When Yale man wishes 10 call you n
fool he says "He is an IT," A silly chap
Is known as "T. Willie" quite In keep
Ing with this intense fashion OF talking
Is he way the Yale men have OF OPEN
InS ther MluuOWS III the dOfmltOfleS
and crying out as Justify as they can
halloo. whenever there IS an alarm in
New Haven, day or night near or far.
Fire! Firel Fire!l" The noise is sup
Dlemented by the clamor OF fish horns,
which are kept in the rooms for this spec
al purpose.
When night comes down over old Yale
college many are the ways In which the
men speed the hours. The lamps are
lindled. and the students are busy with
heir apparently unendng tasks. which
hey must master before even the nearest
goal Is won. Occasionally, through the