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came from will probably never be known
and for some reason historians have never
been able to gather much information
about the club or the men who for half a
century carried 1t here in New Haven to
the terror of the community
Many men who have since been famous
in the Affairs OF state and nation were
college bullies at Yale Notable among
these are William NJ. Evarts, Gov. Charles
R Ingersol of Connecticut and Daniel ).
Appleton of New York, all of whom were
minor bullies. Isaac T. Preston, the vale
dictorian of the class OF 1912. who was
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
Louisiana. and Asa Thulston, 1916. one OF
the first missionaries to Hawaii and one
of the first scholars of his day at Yale
were both college oullies.
In 1911 famous fight took place be-
tween the students and the town element.
II is related that President Day called the
students together and told them that he
would be out OF town during the day and
believed that the county sheriff and the
city authorities would handle the situa-
tion better than he could. Two students
had been arrested and the undergradu
ates were about to make an attack en- the
county jail. The situation was most crit
ical, when Preston. who was then college
bully. took the bully club and alone went
TO the county Jail and demanded the re
lease of the prisoners within an hour.
The two prisoners, It is said, caught up
with Preston on his way back to the cam
pus. That same night Preston. with
single companion, went to the public
wharf and defied the toughest element of
the town. When attacked he beat off the
mob sngle-handed Many other deeds
equal to this are related of Thurston and
Preston, who were great scholars and
likewise men of great strength and great
fighting qualities.
For many years the college bully was
inducted into office on the green in front
of North College. There the retiring bully
made a speech and then brandishins the
great club three times around his head.
declared that the faculty ruled Yale Coll
lege. until the cry of Yale" went lp,
then all must be subservient TO the
bully" Thus having declared himself.
the retiring bully handed the club to the
new bully, who made a speech in which
he promised to defend the club and its
traditions.
In 1910, memorable fight took place On
commencement day between the college
bully and his friends and an opposing ele-
ment in the class. The fight resulted in
the faculty's passing an edict which still
remains in force at Yale to the effect that
no class shall be allowed 10 elect perma-
nent officers.
eiooONA'NAth
North college with the Bully Club, and
many high revels is the story of the re-
ligious revival at Yale in 1857 and 1858,
when the undergraduates became so deep
ly impressed with religious zeal that reci-
tations had to be suspended. while reli-
gious meetings went on in North college
of four and five day
The treasury building. which is the third
of the buildings to be destroyed next sum-
mer. is also rich in history. This build
ing was erected in 1881, as gallery for
the paintings of John Trumbull. son Of
the patriot Governor of Connecticut and
the famous Revolutionary painter. Al
though a Harvard graduate Trumbull gave
to Yale his entire collection because
Yale erected this building as q gallery for
his paintings. When. at the close OF the
civil war the Yale art school was erected
Trumbull's paintings we're removed to the
art school and the gallery was used as
offices fer the president and tr0- rer.