Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-21

" Sdt adfOu AOESo IdlHOhOS AQSuuluH tAo | charter of the Ponemaugh mills of Nor wich and amending the charter of the | Winchester Avenue Horse Railroad oom- pany. Bills were passed incorporating the | city of NorWalk and regulating the manu- I facture and sale of electricity. The two l bills to determine the manner in which | contested election cases are to be settled | were made the special order for Thursday ! at noon. The constitutional convention l bill was made the special order for Thurs day at 3 o'clock. At 12:30 the house ad- 1 journed to 10:30 tomorrow. |
 FENCE ORATIONs. The Freshman Can Now Sit Upon the
 Fence-F. B. Harrison Speaks for
 the SophOmores and A. P. Stokes,
 Jr for the Freshmen.
 The annual giving away of the Durfee fence by the sophomores to the freshmen occurred just after supper last evening. The greater part of the undergraduates gathered about the fence and listened to the speakers. MT. F. B. Harrison spoke for the sophomores and formally gave the fence to the freshmen. His speech was as fol 1oWe:
 SPEECH OF E. B. HARRISON, '95.
 Gentlemen of '96: The annual item In the newspapers announcing that the fresh man class at Yale is the largest thss has ever entered. was, last autumn, by one in spired proof reader allowed to appear 'sThe present freshman class at Yale is the freshest that has ever entered.n And he was rightI You had that proud distinction! When you arrived we did our best for you
 by frequent visits and by invitations to
 walk, and with much good advice and other neighborly attentions, to make 1t
 pleasant and home like. All, for time in yainl With Hamlet thought ''some of
 natures journeymen had made men, and
 not made them well, they initiated human
 ity so abominably."
 You have been rather slow about 1t; but
 I can now see that our ministrations and
 you-somewhat. There are things that show more promptly and remarkably the effects of benefcent influence they have been subjected to. Everybody in college, for instance, has heard of the freshman who came down for the first time from Vermont to salt water, and instead of pie ate so many clans that his stomach rose and fell with the tide. Your happy young faces this evening certainly present pleas ! ing contrast to the fearful countenance of one of you who was wandering about the green last September, in lamentations aud ible and pitiful. A kind-heartsd sophomore found him and asked: "What are you
 crying for. my little mani" ''My mother" i" ''Has she lost youa" "Yes; and told the l darnea thing she would lose me-"
 In these times it is a degenerate class that cannot win it's first baseball game with Harvard, and thus established the tra- ditional claim to the fence; and, simply because you insisted on practising through II IL, ,Hl- S-Sk @ay wnfnzx zx1or ! than base ball-but I see I had better change the subject, for there is Dutch Weyerhaeuser, with a torpedo in his hand the chap, poor fellow, that has worried 80 much over the different ways of spelling his name that he has turned white as to his head.
 Your unselted freshness still deserves 8 chastening reminder or two. The greatest l sacrilege committed of late years in col lege was enacted when you sawed off the l end rails of the fence. By that crime of dis l off the edge-though what you did 1t with don't know, you certainly ha gen't an edge now-you took off the edge say, not of the saw, but of the pleasure of rightfully possessing the fence.--It was after and because of that occurrence that an indig- nation meeting was held by our class in the Record office, and we determined not to allow you to have the fence As-all, un- less you could muster the prowess to take it. On two occasions we invited you, even
 urged you to come and sit on tf you oould) upon these rails-"to wade through slaughter to throne" as the poet gays. But for some reason, never avowed, you
 did not accept either of those invitations
 It cannot be you were afraid. Perhaps af- ter our treatment of you, coming through
 Thermopylse, your feelings were too much
 injured to allow you to sit down; for cer- tainly, on the passage here, many 8 heavy
 swell was broken by the undertoe. Each
 one of you might have exclaimed with
 Tennysou: '1 am part of all have
 met"
 have indicated one serious offence you have committed against college traditions;
 another was the fact that, upon an occa-
 sion we all remembst, Omega, Lambda, which refused to cheer for Dwight Hall.
 But what can men of-religion like us ex- pect from your chosen leaders in matters of the church that sporty deacon, of
 "shore supper" fame, Tom Archibalda z We know that all of you did not lack
 sand to take the fence. Your crew has
 lots of it. It tdone noble" If '96 has
 not yet been able to write its name, as @
 class, in the chronicles of fame, your crew na8 oC1 9oAhAy akuA0 1tb u6kA-h cIOGH- mark! And, for another sandy man there's Dewitt, who has received a life-saving medal for his gallant rescue at Lake Whit
 ney. In the same connection here Is Shel- den, of whom 1t is reported that at the age
 of fifteen he boxed with his father, and
 knocked out four of the parental ribs.
 Talking of athletics there's "Wart Che
 ney," your walker. By some mistake he
 started on run at the athletic games-
 though even his work was not as fleet that
 day as the style in which he scared out of Old Chapel on the night we
 compelled you to take of your hats, to
 show respect for the sophomore class. Of course you expect me to mention such a
 champion as Ally Psrdee," the prettiest soubrette in '9e, who is still angry because
 she did not get baseball suit. George
 Zabriskie Gray, too, :'the Russian" ," Is ath- letic enough to tell us they use shin pads at Groton; and one of the best osrsmen in our class crew is st present g recruit in
 your ranks who rows like a Trojan, and is the inventor of the Kinetio motion. Speak ing about oarsmen, am reminded of
 "Grouchy Jim" And, I may add, it's lucky they are not to have the freshman shell revarnished; for every college must have its Knspp-and one of that kind Is plenty.
 To tlrn to your social stars shall not speak or nohenfltles, but here's man who really does count-Jules Gabriel Henri Pietro js nc sais quoi de Sibouri It Is for him that two girls, one In Washington, the other in Chicago, are dying of the slow torture of anxiety; he has promised to telegraph as soon as he can decide which he loves the better. And, among to nobil- ity, there's Baron Hoeninghaus, who has become such public and celebrated char acter as to have been requested by Presi- dent Dwight to display "Yale Universityn on his waiting cards.
 Among the social stars I must not forget Churchill Clark, your man of sentiment who was seen reading with 1anguishine sighs to his violet-eyed lady mandolin teacher his own productions, signed s.As | seen by me-" But he ia not the only win | ner among you, for "Dick Fly" started l from college on a areund-trip ticket for a l stop-over visit at Pennington and was gone | two months.
 Freshmen, you are a great class, not ]