The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-24
SURPRISES At new HAVEN
Reginald Vanderbilt Fails of Flee
ton TO the Older Societies.

Chosen by the NoIfshcnd Men ut the
Last IIoment-'.SIap Day on the
Yale Campus Brings Other UueX-
pccted ResuIts-The Lucky Ones
NEW HAVEN, May 24.-Reginald Clay
pool Vanderbilt brother Of Alfred
Gwynne. and son of the late Cornelius
Vanderbilt. got his first setback in life at
Yale yesterday. He was turned down for
election by both the old colleges famous
senior societies-SkuU and Bones and
Scroll and Key He receiFed the last
place among the fifteen coming seniors
elected to Wolfshead, the least important
society. and that at the last moment
It was slap day at Yale On this day
for the last sixty years the social status
of the incoming senior class has been de
ternined- There are fUTty-five places to
be filed from classes that range above the
500 mark. Every one of Yale's 2-H5J makes
it q point to be present, and the dorTnI-
tory windows are damned with girl
friends and chaperons. All through the
Junior year it was a mooted question
whether the youngest Vanderbilt heir
would go Benes'' or go Keys, as the
college bows put it In this last genera
ton Alfred chose Skull and Bones. and
Cornelius. jr.. Scroll and Key. Brother
to both Reginald was supposed to be able
to choose for himself.
In reality only the fifteen outgoing SEN
iors know who are 10 get the coveted
places in either Wolfshead contents 1t
self with taking the best fifteen men leIt
( after the two older societies have had
( thar choice, and emissaTies on the cam
: pyIs lay in wait to carry bulletins OF the
/ latest developments to their house
lr0-1
! each with a particular man TO slap He
/ hits his man q terrific blow on the back
! a blow that brings fntensest joy to the re-
! cinient. even If it does hurt. and then fol
lows the anxioJisly awaited command.
/ Go to your room the sweetest sound
that ever Yale junior heard With 2,olJ
| other Yale men Reginald Vanderbilt was
on the campus yesterday afternoon, eX-
/ pectiEg the welcome slap
Man after man was slapped, and still no
/ one went near Reginald Vanderbilt Skull
and Bones completed its list of fifteen
| without him. and the young man looked
a trife worried There were still few
/ places left in Scroll and Key, but man
after man was slapped and still no Van
derbflt.
The last place was gone. Three ennis
saries from WOIfshead, graduates an,
made a dash up Prospect Street to their
society house. There was just one place
left A moment later soIenn-visaged
young man walked down the hill to the
! campus and gave the heir TO SI0,Goo.Go0 a
rousing slap on the back He smiled
| feebly and hurried to his room His was
the last place in forty-five- Some other
junior on Wolfshead-s list had been set
| aside at the last minute for him.
There were other surprises, too. Charles
!
jected by all three societies, though ira
dition and student opinion had placed him
as a sure winner. The upset was SO IN
popular that Could was cheered after the
{ election was announced Dixon Board
man. another athlete. was slated as q sure
man He was turned down, too Banja-
min r F Low, q Brooklyn student, was
slapped BY a Wolfshead man. but re-
fused to go to his room expecting an
election to one of the two older societies.
He failed and is being -condOled with for
his hard luck The lucky men were. in
the order of their choosing:
Skull and Bones-Bronson G Ramsey.
third. Buffalo: Raymond G. Guernsey,
PoUghkeepsie: Percy G. White Gardiner,
Ne; Alfred L. Ferguson. Stamford, Conn.
Alfred N CressIer, Fort Wayne. Ind
Alan n Taylor. Mansfield, Ohio; Joseph
r. Swan jr. Utica; George B Carpenter,
! Chicago; Edwin A Stebbins, Rochester;
| Samuel Stone. Syracuse; Charles c S.
Gushing. Simsbury. Conn; Roderick Pot
ter Buffalo; Frank II. Sincerbeaux. 40
ravia. \. Y: William Z. Day Indian
aDoiis: Mason TrowIedge, Chicago
Scroll and Key-LawTence b BecEwith,
Toledo; Jay N. Pickands. Cleveland: Hen
~ 5. Sherman. Cleveland: James r Der
ring. New York ntY; Leslie NJ Johnston
/ WestmOTeiand. y. V; Homer A Vessel
{ il. Cincinnati; George w Lindenberg,
, / Columbus. Ohio: Robert c Norton. Cleve-
land; John Dek. MiddIetown, Conn: John
: 3. BurreIl, Waterbury. Conn; Laurence
3. Rand. Lawrence. n Y: Norman H
Mason. Chicago; Arthur Y. Wear. St
Louis Henry S Hooker. Washington. D
c, and CORTLAND D. BurDes, New York
z city
WoIfshead-BartIett G Young. Hartford
/ Conn, Graham Brush. New York city
George q. Lincoln. Washington. y. c.
/ F[theIbert J. Low Brooklyn: GaTdGer Alb
' / bOtJ. Cleveland Ellis Adams. summit y
% ]. New ton Q. Brainard, Hartford, Conn.
, Keith Smith, Chicago; Pays0n MeTril
! New York city; George Hull. il, Tuxedo
/ Park: Simeon D Chittenden. jr-- Brook
t Ign; Julian w BUrdict. Albany. Harry
5 / H. Laws, Cincinnati; William r. Teller
/ Kingston. N Y. and Reginald CIaypoO
/ | Vanderbilt, New York city.