The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-06-18
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uer Hldlhsall. Every one was astounded
at the phenomenon till she passed and
we saw Vale seated in the stern. He
was talking and the phenomenon was
explained
And now to have done with these
merry glbes and limitations of wit, let
me speak to you briefly i'm all the sin
certify l feel In behalf of '97.I give you
the fence, and as you gather here in the
evenings to sing and smoke and scrap,
may it mean to you all that it has to us
"a stronger bond of sympathy and
friendship for each other; a better I'M
Outstanding of what life here at college
really means; greater and ever in
creasing love for Yale. Gentlemen, the
fence is yours.
G. B. DE CAMP.
MR.. WALES GRAFTON.
Gentlemen of 81: In the noble words
of the '96 class orator your class was the
freshest that ever entered Yale From
the splendid audacity you have display
ed on various occasions such as trying
\ to play baseball with us, it is evident
that this freshness hasn't worn off yet,
so everybody had better take with a
grain of salt the speech Of the gentle
man who has just decamped.
He it was who CALAMITY tried to cheer
your fallen spirits with his drum corps
on that fated day when Thompson
pitched the curves that made your bat
tiers see snakes.
AT that unfortunate game your ora
tors roommate condeseended to be a
New Haven policeman and put in his
best ticks to make your class a bowling
success. He filrted with the red-headed
nurse-girl who trundled the baby car
riage. That pretty maid would made
a charming summer girl, but she prefers
Winter.
They are both welI-read people.
Here comes Bassanio, your most
noble kinsman," who knocks a man
down occasionally.
Bassanio doesn't grind but he always
gets there somehow; he does such good
work in the rush line. Next there's our
Charley, the strongest man in college,
who is not only right in his way, but
weighs a good deal too. Charley is
talented in many ways. He sometimes
tries a hand at checkers. He's also
musician and produces music ito
charm the savage breast of a sopho-
more as he lightly fingers the banjo.
Your orators friends wanted him to
go out and try for the Varsity foot
ball, but his boyhood dream was to be
a coxswain. The crew, however,
thought it was hardly safe for the lit
tie fellow to be out, and left him at
home
I mustn't omit the man who runs the
hundred, affectionately known as "Slop-
by Bob and the wrestler, the man
who can lay well back, mighty on the
parallel bars, who likes hazing and
sophistry. 1t is rumored that since a
report got abroad that he was seen in
the act by one of the faculty, he's been
receiving offers from numerous dime
museum managers to sit as the Spotted
man"
Another of your track athletes is a
man of all-round abilities. His melo- |
dious voice is heard in first tenor on the |
glee club. Although he can run a lap |
very well, he is nevertheless the LATEST |
man in the class. He's a jolly good fell |
low. One morning about o'clock
wandering up Chapel street he struck |
his head against a BARRIERS pole and ex-
claimed in most injured accents,
"Wa'at'n thunder (hic) has thash wo-
wan in striped stockinsh got agin me?
Here's the man you read about, who |
from his ability to con Greek has stuck |
to first division. This genial gentleman
occasionally imbibes and when he tried |
for his freshman crew they offered toll
take him as rowing tank He prefer |
red to seek glory in the diamond and |
the gridiron. So did the wild man from |
Kansas "Murph, the tackle, who has |
the right in every play" Baseball was |
too easy for Murph, so now he heels the |
News. Among your gymnasts is one
whose feats may mention as a sort of |
a side horse. mean the man with
theopretty little voice.
Your class has gained notoriety from
the growing propensity, the propensity
for growing, mustaches. Among the
fairest are those Of Pop the oarsman,
and Blinking OWL" Of Roman Sirname
Billy boils with rage If anyone speaks
of his.
A great class like '97 couldn't roll |
along very smoothly unless it were
pretty we'll creased, and you have some
who are excellent at this business. For
examples, the namesakes, c. u. and
Willy, who raised the best beard in
the class, but yielding to the earnest en-
treaties Of his friends had it ampu-
lated.
And, o gentlemen of 1877, mustn't
Eroget to speak OF your skill in debate,
which is so conspicuous-by its absence,
like good potato at Commons. 1t took
1913 to redeem the reputation of the col
|ege. You have a few orators, for ex-
lmple, Corny p, the chong-eyed, a dis
|inguished fusser, who heels the Union,
Is we'll as the Lit. and the Courant
He's so VIGOROUSLY windy, that once
when he went into a barber shop to
let shaved Gall except his upper lip
The barber loosely remarked that he
|gas about to "raze the wind" But he
sn't the only man. Rury can recite
he Encyclopaedia backwards, and
here's Windy WindelI who rooms in
he heavenly regions Of Dwight hall,
lrobabIy the nearest to heaven he will
'ver get also Jesse, president Of last
ear's Freshman union, who made his
lame immortal when he said: 1--WE are
ot babes, we are men"
What's this? II hereby warn you
+ BIT to horse me or speak of me at all