The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-16

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must NOT coniue my remarks entirely
to him, for he does not constitute the
whole crew, lhoC@E he sometimes
thi.ls he does, beside him there is
Hewitt, OF the sun kissed hair, who
says the crew is like his grandmoth-
ers cat, because you have tu stroke ii
to wal" Il ~, Thou YOU have the Iii
tN4uH" Ware A. cO%Wain somcholY
"N1G3 civ b n' a "1nd stgc,' OCCASION
ally, e., To rcvcr GiYoa one himself
and as Al member of the class he is
quite too small matter to mention
In fact, I should not speak of him, but
every little counts,
But now we must PASS to footbau for
after all like Trilbv Won aet thoro larea-
w with your feet. You did well unon
the grldiron; we honor Won for IT, You
proved in fact that although Won may
and often do make bull of athletics
vet YOU stand in no fear Of the tiger.
and this under the present circnm-
stances is very encOura aino, II, snnal5-
ing of football. YOU doubtless exncct me
to mention Harvey. and Harvey nrob-
ably expects it too They saw that
Clark regarded himself as so essential
to the success of the team that he used
to lock his door each nieht and 90 TO
bed with his fingers crossed for fear
somebody would steal him avav Then
there's grochy Conner. one of the few
men on the team who did not belong
to the medical school or the BibIe class
if l may dare to mention these two in
situations in the same breath Conner
is that we'll known gentleman who was
cause he commended that Abraham went
to the Valley of Sichem for the pur-
pose of seeing a dos fight.
Upon the diamond YOU are famous for
lots of things. Lack of space and per
haps lack of appreciation Of the ridicu-
lOus prevent me from mentioning all of
them. Even early in the snring when
the beautiful snow. sDotlcssIv white.
was decorating the campus, YOU were to
be seen fitting, lightly clad about the
town. And when a respected resident
| asked who you were and was told that
| you were the Yale freshmen baseball
team Just beginning TO work in the cage,
cage, said ne, well they ought to
| be kept IN their cage. Yet the team
| could not conceal its identity long. We
soon learned, for instance, who the
| Hackers were, name of which we had
heard in the dim past as identified with
particular brand of oat meal The
twins are very fond OF each other. One
of them actually refused to pay his
term Dill because ms brother was not
invited to the presidents reception.
| Then l must also mention Joe Ware;
IN TACT ne especially asked me TO speak
Oh MN, ana am glad TO gfatlfy ms
Whlm But When l promised to men
ton his name he asked me TO pronounce
1t distinctly Tor ne ana not want 10 get
mixed up with ms roommate West.
lie SAID ne was the KING OF the 1resh-
man class ana ne uld not care TO snare
| his nonofs with anybody 1et Joe Is
d most generous sort OF lelioW. he
even parts MS halr IN the middle De
cause as ne says ne Is 100 Ialr-hlldeo
ever 10 agree 10 one-slded arrange
neht'
AS l look upon your well grown feat
| ures this evening | feel that it is not
wise to say too much for it is very
! evident that there are more of you than
| there are of me, and | have no desire to
| borrow trouble. You yourselves are
| noted for your borrowing. III fact
since you came here this fence is the
only thing you have not touched. Youl
| prominent men whom from long prac-
tice have gained proficiency in this art
are numerous, but none are better
known than Upton, who believes that
because he lives in what is called q
commonwealth he is always at liberty
to take the loan of five or ten, without
| regard to previous acquaintance
There are many other little games
too in which you excel us; one in par
ticular often played without the joker
at which we could never beat you. The
reason is quite plain, for while our re-
sources are limited, you, as you vii
observe by a close inspection of Durfee
can easily draw any number of queens
Freshmen, in the years to come We
! expect much of you. From head tC
foot, including both, you are fearfully
and wonderfully made. At present next
to Savin Rock you are the most popu-
lar feature of New Haven. But do not
let that make you unduly conceitet
for they say that Dante wrote his Tn
ferno" after a short visit to Savin Rock
You are an attractive class. You even
drew some men from '9S, some mer
Whom we had tondly cherished; mef
Whom we were sorry to see go, but WITH
whom we were forced to agree Wher
they declared that they needed a little
refreshing. In this class the genia