The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-16
FRESHMEN GET THE FENCE
ANNUAL FENCE ORA7I0NS DE-
- LIVERED LIST EVENING,

j. II. Hamilton Spoke for tn" Hophomoros
and II. Il. Noble for the Freshmen dolly
Horses on Both Glasses and Their Mem
hers Listened to by a Large Crowd
Both Oratlons Were Excellent,
Last evening, according to the CIV
tom followed every year on the evenh $
of June To- the Yale freshman cla~s
handed over the sophomore fence to the
new sophomore class, that class on this
occasion being 80. AS is generally
known, there are three class fences on
the campus-a senior fence a junior
fence and a sophomore fence. The
present fence" extends along the walk
Durfee. The original old fence" was
however, the fence which enclosed the
southeast corner of the campus before
Osborn hallwas built on the site. When
the old fence was torn down to make
room for Osborn hall there was no
fence for over year, but finally the
and undergraduates at the loss of that
time honored institution led the faculty
to decide upon building a fence which
would take the place of the old one, and
in the fall of 1898 the present fence was
built.
The sophomore class each year selects
a member to act as it's spokesman, who
in an appropriate Grafton hands over
N1rhi1 "a
freshmen in turn select q member of
their class to accept.
The orations began last evening at I
o'clock, and at that hour crowd Of
several hundred students occupied the
space in front of Durfee, where the ora
lions were to be delivered, while in the
windows of Durfee were numbers OF
ladies on hand to hear the orations and
see the fun.
The orator selected by '9S to hand
over the fence was j. H. Scranton, and
the one chosen by 80 to accept was E.
T. Noble Of Wichita, Kan. Mr.. Scran-
ton spoke as follows:
MR.. SCRANTON'S GRAFTON.
We have no doubt, gentlemen, that
you want the fence. You've always
wanted it. 1t Is perfectly natural that
a class like yours, which always wants
anything that 1t can rest its hands on
should occasionally want something
upon which it may rest its feet. Yet
believe me, gentlemen, you almost fall
ed to get it. Ninety eight saved it fol-
you. You were so obtrusive when you
came here that the rest of the college
wanted you to get off the face of the
earth, so we decided to put you on the
fence At the first faculty meeting
held last fall the president exclaimed
with sigh of relief, cat last we have 8
fresh subject for discussion" But af.
ter you had been here awhile and they
. knew more about you the faculty didn't
want you to stay They said they
could get along without a freshman
class this year But '9S objected. We
told the faculty that such a course
would take away from them a grea
source of pleasure and would also
spoil our beautiful system, for at pres
ent '9S sits on her fence, soon '99 will
sit on her fence, while the faculty sit
on '99. And we thought the good ole
customs ought to be kept IN
But I must leave these general re
marks, and like the Greeks before Troy
I must hasten to the horse. Yet il
disclosing your history to a forebear
ing college it is hard to know just where
to begin. You have so many stars
some shooting stars, some stars tina
often get shot. Like Long Island sount
you offer room for many jibes. AS thu
best way out of my predcament I'll be
gin at the beginning. That ought Il
suit you, for where are you yourselves
but at the beginning?
Before you came here last fall W,
heard large rumors of your greatness
People said you were to be the bigges
class on record. We said the freshest
And after you had arrived we founc
the rumors were correct. You certainl,
were the biggest class when countet
per capita. And often as we locke
across the freshman gallery in chape
and observed the sea of nodding head
we were tempted to remark with tn
girl upon the seashore, What awfu
swells."
You had not been here long before
was generally known that you were al
i athletic class, yet you were very quie
4 about 1t, and you increased rapidly il
\ modesty. We visited you often an;
! helped you to get acquainted with eacl
other and with the town. You Wer
shy and often retiring Cor about to re
tire), but we urged you on. We prais
ed you've even fattered you. Whe1
you shook your fists at us, refused t.
go out, and declared that your head
were level, we gently asserted that the,
were absolutely fiat, and that you
faces were built upon the architecture
L lines of a commons pie, Thus, as
say, your gentleness increased unit
you even blushed wildly whenever vo
i were obliged to turn up your trousers
It was at about this stage of your eX
istence that in large herds you wan
dered to the lake, and like the snail Q
wise instincts, you crawled into you
she'll But right here let it be said tina
as between the shell of the snail an
| the eight-oared shell of the freshma
crew, '9S offers odds on the snail, wit
good prospect of winning. And yet W
would not underestimate your oars
men; they are a goodly lot of mer
Though like the duck when moulting
is rather hard for them to feather, We
they are a noble set 1t is with som
trepidation that I venture to speak {
them. / know that Windy Abbott ha
his eagle eye fixed on me- / do nc
dare to smile lest he smile, too. Thos
81 of Won who ShaVe seen Windy Smil