The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-06-18
ANNUAL FENCE ORATI0NS
DELIYERBD Ar THE "FENCE'' ON
THE CAMPUS, List EVENING.

Charles Brandebury DE Camp the SopbO-
more OratOr-William Newell Vaile Spoke
for the Freshmen-Many Merry Jibes
Listened to by Large Crowd of Students,
The annual fence orations were deliv-
cred yesterday evening before an un-
usually large and enthusiastic gather
ing of undergraduates numbering about
2,OOO The fence was handed over to
the present freshman class by Charles
Brandebury DeCamp of Cincinnati, o.,
and was received for '9S by William
Newell Vale of Denver, Col
Nearly the whole college had as
sembled in front of the fence to hear the
speeches, and as particularly good hits
were made they We're received with
such hearty applause as only students
can give.
After the orations We're finished the
freshmen were given possession of the
fence, and there was a scramble for
places. The rail was soon filled, and
the freshman glee club then sang sew
eral of their songs.
The orations, like those Of preceding
years, contain so-called ''sours" on the
other class and on individual members.
= a. NtAAApN 9NtNlo III A(ullG just OP-
posite the orators stand, were occupied
by ladies who We're interested specta-
tors of the jolly scene, and applauded
frequently.
The orations are as follows:
MIR. DE CAMPS GRAFTON.
Gentlemen of 9S / am up here this
evening to give you the fence, and If,
like some of us, it had wheels, would
say, 1T is good thing; push it along"
AS survey your eager childish faces
before me, 1t is difficult to believe what
a tough class you are Even before you
came amongst us last September ru-
mors of your bad character fioated to
New Haven and the college authorities
fastened to take the necessary precau-
tions against your entrance Hence
these electric lights, towering monu-
ments Of abnormal faculty of curiosity
Hence these able-bodled peelers,
Messrs, Wonnelly and Deiser, who pa
rade the campus after dark looking for
the weary and mentally deranged And
might say here that these same gem
tlemen have proved themselves our
very good friends. But 1t is you, gen
tlemen, we must thank for these inno-
vations. zone class in a thousand"
some one has called you, aud we are de-
voutly thankful, for another like you
again very soon would PROSTATE the
college, In fact you are not worth two
sticks or you would have carried at
least one of them on Washington's
birthday.
1t now lacks but twelve hours and
some inches of the time when you shall
enter upon a new era in your college
existence, where you shall have even
more golden opportunities to display
your toughness. l mean when you are
sophomores. Before this happy time,
however. when you shall cast aside
the invidious cigarette for the briar
pipe, give up Hauff's for Morys, and
raising the battle cry of our "model
daily" subscriptions now due) rush inn
petuously Ito the fencei' l would say
a few words to you, and bearing in !
mind the poets line:
Life is made up of sweets and sours,"
1t is necessary to take a deep breath |
before speaking of your athletics. You
are such big class in that direction to |
Judge from the size of the numerals ON |
some of your caps. Doubtless you |
-hink that you won the fall regatta by |
your superiority In rowing, but assure
you we gave you the race merely out of |
courtesy to "Col." Marsh and Glib
4insdale, two of our late lamented. In |
proof of this see the dusty, or rather
vet mile we showed you this spring, |
which made some of your oarsmen so
ore that even the fact they had beaten
he Varsity time was no consolation.
Apropos Of rowing Ito use a Jean Par
leeism) / must mention two of your
oremost strong men, "Silent" Jim
Rodgers and "Sandow' Cadwaladef.
10 great was the excitement at the lat
er's appearance last fall that several
gentlemen of '95 visited his room one
light and dragging him out of his
ajamas. felt his blceps simply out of
devouripg curiosity. But this Is
1erely an incident. Bert cannot, like
is great namesake give exhibitions at
he "Hyp," but the boys club is a very
ood place to do stunts, and after push
lg the weights around few times
ere one evening, he offered his leather
elt and plugged nickel to any one
resent who could duplicate the per-
Needless to say none Of the
ids accepted his challenge.
In coming to football your inferiorIty |
, 81 Is plainly evident for though Ely,
ho has since gone into the business
stealing babies labeled '9S, led forth '
our eleven to play Harvard Harvard y
ayed you and the score was mot thirty !
, four in Yale's favor Nevertheless [
le same old game went ON at Wells
lat evening and the walls re-echoed (
ith the old euphonious cry of 1--WE
ant Werner" the man of many Ian {
lages, who is growing pale and thin {
cause so far he has mot been able to /
anslate the Greek inscription on t
wight hall. OF course | know the G
ore might have been different If those /
70 great sharks, "Mully" Mutually and
Dutch" Schneider of Hoboken, had | C
aged. But it hurt the formers pride | v
10 much to trip and fall down before v
large crowd, and as for Dutch" the z
Ily trip he wanted was the Christmas S
lie of the Glee club where he pursues c
e even tenor of his way and is too p
lsy running it anyhow to play foot a
III. :"
On the track you were distinguished, h
rather extinguished by two notable fe
otters, Frederick Theodore van Beu- 81
n, jr., Small V, please, and Grover-I c.
san Cleveland, the Albino mile runner fl
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