The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-06-18

winch you Tedl Ddu CulieSt pOyS uIOP-
ped down from the fFeshmen's cage and
told us to get on to Riddles hair" the
great What was it," who stole gently
away from you last winter and the band
played Guess again" Speaking of
baseball and rain, l cannot forbear tell
ing the latest bit of repartee that your
brilliant wit, Earnie Howe, Is said to
have made One day this spring stran-
ger asked him If 1t had rained much in
New Haven that week. We'll" replied
Earnie, there were three baseball
games scheduled"
Now, DON'T make any remarks when
mention your game with us this spring.
We went out with drums and shotguns,
etc, hoping to rattle your nine and in
particular Pitcher Writ Thompson,
whose loss '95 may mourn, inasmuch as
he started to enter college in 81, but at
once knew 1t was impossible on witness
ing the contortions and uncorked en-
thuslasm of o. M. Clark the Pompa-
dour Politician of '9S What was our
cannons brazen mouth alongside of
his!
And Orrin brings me to famous or
ganization of your class sometimes
known as the Balloon club. mean the
Freshmen union, which glories in such
members as Daniel Webster, Jurin,
Richardson, the "Horny7handed Son of
Toll from Vermont" and 'Hi'' Bing-
ham, all excellent men, but Bingham
stands head and shoulders above the
rest In the debate with the Harvard
freshmen here in Alumni 1t seemed for
a long time as If neither side would
score, but at last your famous orators
pushed the bawl over Harvard's line
and saved the day. And these three
men, l believe. afterward sat ON the
fence for a few moments and so the
posterior sensation of that top wall will
prove more or less Of a chestnut to
them. Also the ubiquitous Clark, who
Immediately afterwards decided to
write a treatise on Fencing; though IL
he puts It in all the remarks made by
our class at the time II will be unfit for
publication.
One day during the. seance Of the
union Gren Parker-1 have to use his
name, though l do risk my life-was
standing outside Old chapel, and, as the
voices Of the wranglers floated out
through the window rccited the follow
ing appropriate little verse (Gren goes
for nnetryy}}:. ryy}}:
l like to stand on the white sen sand
And listen TO the soughing Of the wind.
1 will now dwell ON few social and
other lights, though perhaps Ryders
hair Is the headlight. To begin with, a
german was given some of your fussers
here in town about six weeks ago, and |
for the first dance the freshman March |
was played None of them caught on,
however, and ope-I withhold his name !
even asked the girl he was with If |
that were Sousa's latest two-step But |
that is two thin, as they say when Ed |
and "Tos" Benet go down street |
together. OF course you have Mason, |
| mean a Chicago one. Every self-re- |
specting class has, and that Is why 96 |
is Handicapped. When Julian came |
down to college hast year he stopped In
New York and going into a cafe one
for breakfast ordered piece
Of pie and bottle of ginger ale. yes,
sir" said the genial waiter, somewhat
but excuse me, sir, you are
rom Chicago, are you not?' julie never
knew hcSv he found out, for they get |
up in the night to drink beer out there.
And now ! must mot forget Van Lind
say, your male Trlby, who gracefully
the compliment by turn
ng up his trousers as high as possible.
Pardon if / insult, but it is even rumor-
ID that Van is the author OF the "As
Seen by Him. column in Vogue. Still
10 not think that he has worn amy golf
fleets vet, though "Ash" Fitch and
Borden, who runs free o'clock trains
lp from New York every Sunday night,
rave made the experiment, and Rey-
lolds "High-lffe" may be seen any af-
ernoon running around the track at
he'gym, so that when he wears his this
ummer he can show some visible
means of support. But that is pretty
mean hit ditto
Your sporty element is ably represent
d by the aforementioned Punk" /
Kid" Neale, who never goes down to ]
Iillers to play his shark game of pool {
,ithout compass in his pocket to steer
ONE again, and last but mot least, Do s
IN Clark, who says the Bartenders' ]
lub is a Yale myth exploded. Dolan, s
rho was one of our lights once, drop Z
ght. Is never tired of telling how he 4
,as help up and robbed one night this {
pring while standing petaceably ON the {
orner while waiting for a+a street car. t
he villains swlped his watch and all s
Is money, and then even Kidnapped Y
i'm, but he never found out who they | a
ere. Perhaps there are some present 4
ho might inform him. The strangest c
art of it is that he didn't care a fig for r
le date he missed. Then there is a
Woger" Winthrop, who gives teas TO n
lir Thespians and has to ask "Tully 8
ernochan' to help him out just be- h
luse he gets little thing like tele- h
ram from his father. But this is a r
,inful subject and for the sake of con- d
asst, let me speak of John Shilito Rog- h
IS, who says that heaven is his home, p
1T that he lis living temporarily at "
wight hall, where he is assisted musi- h
lily by "Ivesie," the young Mozart, "
hose first words after he was born
ere "Will some one please bring me a h
pe-organ?" I understand that I've
e" is the musical director of a large r.
lorus in your class which is secretly
'acticing some close harmony on Far c,
way in the SOUTH" and my name is Fl
Johnnie Johnson" with which you 81
,pe to outshine our efforts here at the 9,
nee next fall. But am about through, a.
cheer up and take heart CHarD. You | N
n keep him all right for he is too n,
ash to spoil, n,
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