The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-05-25
SENIOR SOCIETY ELECTIONS
"TAP DdY" CEREMONIES HELD ON
CAMPUS yesterday.
Three Societies Elect New Members Be
fore Large Crowd of spectafors-Four
New Haven Young Men Honored.

Forty-five members Of the Junior
class at Yale We're yesterday elected to
membership in the three senior secret
societies, the highest honor 1T Is possible
for a student to gain The elections as
usual were given on the campus near
the fence, and the ceremony was wit
messed by large numbers of townspeo-
pie as we'll as students. The windows
of the nearby dormitories were crowd
ed with spectators, large part OF them
young women, who did not hesitate to
cheer as loudly as the rest when some
popular man was slapped on the back.
The large attendance Of spectators was
due for the most part to the weather,
which, by peculiar coincidence, has not
been good on this day for number of
years.
The elections made were all popular,
but there We're a great many surprises.
Some who were regarded as sure to get
elected to Bones accepted VOLTS Head,
and vice versa. Most of the students in
the vicinity held their breath when G.
S. Stillman, the big football player, and
G. A. Reynolds, both refused elections
to Skull and Bones. There was reason
in their madness, however for both i'm
mediately after received elections to
Scroll and Keys Four men refused
VOLTS Head Hord, the prospective
track team captain. Hixon, the foot
ball manager; kid" wallace, and r.
H. Edwards. Hixon and Edwards were
later elected to Bones; the other two
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Brown, the football captain, went
Keys, as did Henry Christian, son of
the Minneapolis millionaire. H, M.
Robertson, captain of the golf team,
was elected to VOLTS Head.
Four New Haven young men secured
elections: Ray Morris, son Of ex-Gover-
nor Luzon B. Morris, and Alfred Parks
Wright, son of Dean Wright were elect
ed to Skull and Bones; Roger P. Tyler.
son of William r. Tyler, and Robert w.
Chandler, son of Professor Chandler,
were elected to VOLTS Head society.
The other elections follow:
Skull and Bones-Sherman L. Coy,
Lakeville, Conn; Arthur D. Allen,
Louisville. KY; Ray Morris, New Ha-
ven, Conn; Robert Burns Dixon, La
Crosse, Ill.,; John Shepard Eels, Rose
Station, Cal; James Vaudeville Carlisle,
Washington, d. c.; George A. WEIGH,
Cleveland; Philip Cheney and Thomas
l.. Cheney, South Manchester, Conn;
Warren Hoysradt, Hudson, N Y; ]. A.
Kepplenlan, Philadelphia; H. H. Chris
tian, Minneapolis, Mimi; Richard H.
Edwards, Isle, N. Y; Alfred P. Wright,
How
Waterbury, Conn
Scroll and Key-Robert l.. Atkinson,
st. Louis George Schley Stilman,
BROOKLYN; George P. Chittenden, New
York city; George " Reynolds, ST.
Louis Mo; Leonard M Thomas, Phil
adelphia; William P. Clyde, New York
city; Walter Bruce Howe, Washington,
d. c.; Hugh Auchinloss, New York
city; Joseph Medill Patterson, Chicago
James II. Wear, St. Louis; William f.
Day. Indianapolis; Paul l.. Mitchell.
Maurice Mason, Chicago
and Francis Gordon Brown, jr., Flush
ing, L. l.
VOLTS Head-Alexander Cameron, jr,
Brooklyn, N. Y; e. H. Brown Cleve-
land; Thomas Markoe Robertson, New
York city; William G. Morgan, New
York city, William r. Hit, Washing
ton, D. c.; Roger P. Tyler, New Haven;
Carrot P. Kip, New York city;FE. NJ
Byers, Pittsburg, Pa. NJ K Parker
New York; Dudley S. Blossom, Cleve-
and; Kinsey Twining, jr., Morristown,
n. j.; James Laying Mills, Philadelphia;
Robert w. Chandler, New Haven,
Conn; Cameron B. Waterman. Detroit,
Mich; Harold Chappell, New London.