The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-20

pleasure tO us all, because IL IS SUCH d happy sight when lambs garnbol T hereby challenge Mir Bob Norton" it | reads, ito make good his preposterous claim that he can become entirely bald before l can. I am ready to put up any required sum at any required time and place, on condition that the afore- said Bob Norton produce himself as specified, and forfeits the sum of S0 for each hair over and above the number which I shall show at the same time and place"
 Exhibitions of the true spirit of the scholar are always gratifying. When Roy Mason goes to New York, he in quires his way back to the station in French, just for the love of the game. At first he used to bring up just about equally at the Tombs and Hoboken Ferry, but now he has so progressed in his educational work among the New
 York police that he can hit the vicinity
 of the Sixth avenue dog wagon every
 time.
 They say that little Tommy Tucker is
 the politest man on record at the end of
 rope. Early in the year, for some mis-
 
 was led down from the top of Duncan
 hall. At one time the rope cea sed to
 descend and Tommy called up courte"
 ously 70 sir if you would let out a little more rope, sir, think I could just
 touch the window sill with the tips of my toes, sir"
 D. K. Reed was requested about this time to furnish entertainment for a party of night -errant sophomoree, and he read them his intended contributions for the next Lit. until they all silently stole away. This seems piece of strat- egy that we can but admire
 Walter Roberts has an enquiring turn of mind that should make him a good student l should think. One evening he was asked by some classmates to go down town for a game. ''All right" said Walter, and then thought it all out. Finally he asked, in a conversational tone, What's the game to be, pool?" This reminds me of some features of the education of Bill Mullaly, the attic philosopher, before mentioned, who in quired early in the year. if one was al- lowed to smoke at Mory's. Some times this can be done, Bill, if you have pull with Oscar I will say right here, though, that 1902 could use with great advantage a few more men like Bill Mullaly.
 There is another philosopher in your class, of a very practical turn. His name is Courty Barnes. When the weather seems warm, with likelihood of warmer, he gives his division officer tickets to the game. Snappy work, County!
 Now there is Alfred Cressler, who has done some very entertaining shopping at Chase's, and is evidently a sightseer by nature. Time is passing however and 1 think it would be wiser to forget the Cressler story.1f Alfred feels becom- ing gratitude because I have forgotten it. he may send the check to 215 Durfee.
 I could go on with many another tale of heroism and daring, but I know Ma son Trowbridge is only waiting for the chance to make philosophical oration, and explain why his class did not take the fence. You will be very ungrateful. gentlemen, if you do not think the fence is the finest thing you have every been up against. It is there you sit in the early morning hours and explain to your monitor that you were not in your usual seat in chapel; 1t is there vol, form a guard of honor when Farming ton attends chapel here And see to if gentlemen. whether you are persons of very great importance or persons of very little, that you sit in the middle of the renee, wherever your classmates are thlckest and keep up the tradition that makes Yale different from Harvard. We are growing old, and We leave you this TOT your inheritance, gentlemen; may you and the fence prosper!
 MT. Trowbridge spoke thus in accent ing the fence in behalf of 1902,
 Gentlemen of 1901-"There's a divinity that shapes our ends"
 Fundamentally first duty Is to com graduate you on being in full possess sion Of your faculty, who providentially lnterfered to protect you from the fence rush. Your pulls at the bottle have been so many-those who knew VOL as | children say that you were addicted to | this habit in infancy at almost as early an age as that of Job when he began to swear, who cursed the day he was oorn-your pulls at the bottle have been so many that your pull with the faculty Is hard to explain, since Mory's and the | authorities don't usually pull together. Alfred w., however, is said to have a | good stand-in with the dean and is well | backed up by Theodore Salisbury, ,Tr.. | alas the Cardinal Whether that enter orising news-heeler gets his title from | resemblance to Shakespeare's descrlp- ion of his namesake beginning, His mind suggests /. the in- erview," or from the color of his hair s uncertain
 But I am not here to congra tulate you ,nly but to express our keen regrets that your entire class was put to the trouble If dressing up in football clothes for hree nights running to no purpose. We would have relieved you of the necessity if guarding the fence by taking it off your hands, had not MT. Moody been reaching in Dwight hall. The Evangel- st Paul, who like the tower of Babel s built to reach the sky, had gone to lear him, and as no rough-house is com ,lete without Paul. we felt that we ught to wait. It has since become evil lent that he put up this little game on to gain time till the faculty ould be induced to act I had meant o ask him about this but unfortunately e stepped on a banana peel yesterday nd hasn't been anywhere since, Be- ooms on the fifth floor