Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-06-19
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The Sophomores Hand Over the
Fence to the Glass of ,97-The
speech of Arson Phelps Stokes, IT.,
for ,96-Thomas Ludlow Clarke of
New Orleans, La, Speaks for the
Freshmen.
The annual fence orations were delivered
at the sophomore fence in front of Durfee
hall last evening at o'clock, at which time
the class of '96 formally delivered the fence
over to the incoming sophomore class.
Arson Phelps Stokes, jr., of New York
was the orator for the sophomores and his |
speech was delivered in q most praise |
worthy and oratorical manner. His speech |
was AZ follows:
Gentlemen of '97-Although you are
fresh and new, am going to treat you as
chsstnuts by roasting you.
Az sophomore shall repeat the warm
reception that our class gave you last fall,
and realizing how small must be the brains
| Of you poor freshmen, shall try to In
| GREASE your intelligence by making you
| smart az much as possible.
Your class, of course, suffers In COM
| parison with ours-so does any class that
has ever been or ever will be in Yale col
legs. Even Beagle Fincke and his baseball
team acknowledged the supremacy OF '96
by having the score In the inter-olass
| championship game come out nine to six
and not nine to seven In our favor; while
| Tommy Clark, whom you may be able to
| zee in q few minutes If you have telescopes,
had not studied enough mathematics to
| know that Q straight line Is the shortest
distance between two points, and his crew
accordingly came to grief at Lake Whitney.
Your little COX vain tried to box the COM
pass in his steering, and the result was
that when the race was lost Miller was so
angry chat he, too, wanted to have boxing
/ match with q member of the champion 's5
crew.
| According to Casper Whitney, the au-
thority at Yale in athletic matters, your
two greatest mon of muscle, sinew and
nerve, are Charley Chadw wick and "Spotsy"
Bowers. am almost tempted, however,
to classify the former among the students,
for he actually had the brass to try for the
Woolsey scholarship examination; his only
qualification being long hair. Harper's
Weekly's sporting editor recently predict
} ed that Charlie would win the inter. col
leRiate hammer throwing contest next
/ year-provided that he gets on to the
, | swing perfectly, and no one else does bet
ter. Fortunately he Is keeping diary
, during his college course, which has been
| purchased in advance by the Record and is
| soon to be published with a dedication by
| the commodore to '94, on account of
that class's wonderful series of athletic
= triumphs. The style will be that of Fred
| dies slate, and the name "Charlie's career
at Yale" 1 might add that the Couraut
8 outbid the Record for this production, but
| Charles nurse advised him not to accept
:, Minerva's advances unless he be made an
: editor and have to fork out 5000 In senior
. | year. sSpotsy" differs from Charlie in be-
ing handsome. He also has the pleasure
10 of being on the closest terms with the Law
school sprinter, and is anxious to accom-
!. pany his friend on the Oxford trip, Of
!. professional all-around athlete, with high
jumping and poker as specialties.
e oome-aewto trio of hsyaeed athletes
"Towsel" Murphy, Harry Keator an6
f "Wirt" Davis, the "Texas Steer" "Murph'
= ia one of the Oldest Inhabitants of Junction
" City, Kansas, and still keeps as a precious
memento a ragged blue sweater which h
n | pulled off an Indian in a youthful en-
/ counter. The graceful man will tell yoI
/ all about this and other adventures if 20,
| ask him, for he is clsssed with Curtemius
# Cicero Ca sar- Cookies -Jimmie-J enking- Gil
J. lette, as even windier than our own Zsbris
kie. One of his mild stories is to the effec
that his father raised thousand bushels
y | of popcorn three years ago and stored Il
" in barn. The barn took fire, the cor1
began to pop and filed ten-acre lot. Al
l old mare in a neighboriDg pasture, havin
defective eyesight saw the corn, thought
was snow, fell down and frozs to death
. They say that Fred and his twin brothe
who was captain of the '92 ball team hav
l. never recovered from the sorrow caused b,
the death of the old mare. In fact Murph,
d still cries about 1t every Saturday night
p aud 1t is all that Deacon Dave Twitchel
l. can do to turn away his thoughts from tn
sad event by spending the evening will
y him at Polls.
T. I muat now turn to the "Jakes Club,
d the great Intellectual feature of '97, AM
!, ono which I hope may not reappsar
III else it may soon become formidable riva
to Phi Beta Kappa. 1t was founded by
{ defunct member of '96, and alasI of .
i also: refer to . ..Luety DsPo ;n..s
j. and honorary member of ever.
learned society in the country, the sand
Pups alone excepted. The first meetin
was at Jake Mann's saloon. Aroun'
"Lusty" were some of the other student
of your class-Charlie Adee. "DeWitty
IN Sage and Rob DsPuyster Tytus, all wit
ss high collars and butterfly ties; Hun
If | Mason, who bows to no one but himsel
y Mckinley Boyle of three beer limit fame
to George Day who follows "Brinck" Thorn
i'll l in believing that the we'll read man Away
a. seems rare; and last, but not least, Frit
Brookfield, who left '96 simply that b
might keep an eye on his younger brother
g. These were some of the founders of tn
"a Jakes' club. Mr.. Moore in his inaugura
, address spoke Of the "aims and purposes
- of the club, which was founded "to pre-
kLn of Al1
81 make Freshmen more interested ii
,e literary matters" 1t was stoppe
\, because the flow of beer becam
" unbearable, and because the contri
+ buttons from '97 to Vogue and the Val
r Literary Magazine did not become NOR
ls numerous. At the end of the fourt
% meeting the man of the Roman praenome
q was found playing mumbledy- peg at 8 a
+ m. In the center of the green, and Mason
number 10, did not appear again for thre
is days. ought to add that Henry Coffin
2 whose musical tendencies were DEVELOPS
- when q mere kid, was thought of chaplain
"a and musician to the club, but his funerea
y name finally kept him from membership
70 One day Henry asked his father to bu
81 you would disturb me-" s'Not at ALL" sal
o. little Henry, "Tll only play when you ar
y; ! asleep"
!. "Well, gentlemen, the "Jakes Club,
y like It's founder, has passed away fror
your class and from college history.
It's intellectual rival has been tn
"Freshman Onion" which has had as pres
, ident two men of strong personality, intel
u lectual power, executive ability and states
y manship-Churchill and Olney. The TO,
ID mer, when questioned by rival Jake, a
10 to who was the president of the ''darne
:, old thing" folded his arms In Nepoleoni
u fashion and replied with dignity, II, sir
9; have that honor" while 1t was Presiden
4 Olney, who, by an inaccuracy, happens t
9, be the attorney general that made his cele
., brated speech calling upon ~ to pass n
n resolutions in regard to the glee club con
9; | cert. Cousin Willie CLARK is perhaps tn
81 worst grind in the whole union. In fac
:, he has ground everywhere 30 hard that b
|, has no sand left, aud actually ha
y the nerve to refuse to remove hi
d hat to '96 when our delegation helpe
to make at least one nesting of your dc
1e batting society bowling success. The
~ say that Bob Gilmore wanted to join til
t, Union, but was blackballed on account o
g. an incident that occurred when be was eel
lg ebrating the fact that on Tuesdays of eigh
Y; successive weeks he had succeeded in hav
III ing the same log in regard to the Unive,
N atty of Cairo in 'Ysle's sparkling daily.
IL I have mentioned most of your elias
n characters. but theirs are Hiust a few NOR