The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-21
ANNUAL FENCE CREATIONS
CELEBRATIOE OF An ANCIENT Gus
TOM At YALE.

OELEBRATION OF an ANCIENT Gus
TOM At YALE.
The Sophomore Fence Presented to the
Freshmen-A Large Crowd Presented,
ID, Dana Makes the Presentation Speech
Hay Morris Accepts for Freshmen In
Bright Speech-Gibes at Individual
Members of Each Glass.
The Juniors fence upon the campus
was surrounded last night by an I'M
usually large body of students to hear
the annual fence orations. The sopho-
more orator. j. D. Dana, made neat
speech, presenting the fence to the
freshmen. The speech of acceptance
by Ray Morris was very good and was
spoken of as being one of the best in
years. Mr.. Dana's grafton follows:
YALE FENCE GRAFTON.
Gentlemen of 1901:
You will notice that call you gentle
men,-possibly you expected me to say
''Fresh." Finding that there are no
"Co-eds" in your class, and that "Cis-
sy' Bedding is the only lady, take the
liberty. am also inspired by an acute
desire for my own personal welfare, for
/ have no wish to say anything rash
before a class which has had compul-
sorry gym" for eight months, with
Prof. Dole's boxing class as the only
alternative. Yet / know that you are
Children children, that's ALL"
I can not think that behind such inno-
cence aught of evil can Turk, and like
''Kid' Wallace feel that can talk
forever.
1900 is about to give you the fence,
inasnluch as we have found out that
you will never get it unless it is given
to you. In your younger days I am
told that you thought you could take it.
The idea became so firmly rooted in
your little minds that it took some
roofing to get it out.
I had prepared a most careful digest
on your class to which I wished to
make reference this evening. but the
faculty object 50 strongly to the use of
digests that dare not do it. In truth,
freshmen, the faculty object to many
things. They have objected to few Of
your number, and strange to say they
object to the fence, and they have sent
me word that it will be taken down this
summer. You need have no fear, how
ever, for they will erect a barb-wire
fence for your future use.
We were much pleased at finding you
here last fall. variety is the spice of
life" We all like something new.
Evidently we were not the only ones
who were glad to see you for we found
the Tontine spaciously enlarged. When
we learned this we had grave doubts as
to whether or not it would be safe to
maintain your equilibrium when placed
upon it's sacred rails, and as time went
on we became confirmed in this opinion
We therefore called meeting in
Osborn Hall to take action on the mat
ter. The Freshman Glee club was
singing In College Street Hall and we
were obliged to adjourn to the fence
There was a consensus of opinion
among us that although you had
proved yourselves ambitious, yet you
lacked the push necessary to success.
We decided to send out several commit
tees carefully to look over your class
and report to US.
The religious committee was the first
to return. They said that they had
met with no success as big game was
on at Paul Weil's and Moody was the
only man whom they found at home.
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athletic class, for soon after your ar
rival you all became gym" heelers.
''All signs fail in wet weather" Pos
sibly the same is true of a wet class.
We waited nevertheless with some
impatience the return of the Athletic
committee. They had been successful
They said that your athletes reas-
sembled Polls comedians in being q
versatile lot. First they spoke of Per
nv Kiefer. We were somewhat sur
prised at this, but they said that Per-
ry especially requested it. interviewed
as to the baseball prospects, he said
he thought that Captain Greenway
with his assistance, would be able to
bring the season to q successful close
The committee then asked him for a
''horse" on himself, but he only smiled
and shook his head. "TIe is willy per-
son and his deeds are not known OF
men"
Auchincloss they found some trou-
BILE in Identifying because he had
shaved his dainty moustache, fearing
that it might be fresh to wear one.
Cadwalader was out of town wher
they called. They inquired about hin
and found that he had sought to feed
himself on peanuts in class, had insist
ed upon reading the New York Journa
during chapel, and had left New Ha'
ven for short time. Physically
speaking they said that he was consid
cred the biggest man in his class
plainly speaking, the freshest. After {
careful survey they decided that botl
reports were correct
They said that Lengthy Brown:
proudest boast was that during the en-
tire football season only SIX feet were
gained through him. His pride, how,
ever, had been slightly shattered wher
young lady on being told this, re
marked, "How terrible! Couldn't yol
keep them from gaining like that?"
Stillman was in when called upol
and seemed very anxious to talk abou