The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-21


every annOUii, ,.-....- ga.
made by the uriversity's faculty. Before
this weatherwOrn slab of wood the knees
Of aspirants for literary and intellectual
honors at Yale have trembled annually
for full century. There the freshman
has learned that ne has won a prize at
Yale. The sophomore has read on this old
board announcements of honors that
meant more than anything else to him
The junior has scrUtinized the same board
for information of honors that would
mean senior society for him.
The old bell up in the tower over the
entrance has, during a like period, reused
the sleeping students at a. m. and then
at $40 has called them TO morning prayers
in the chapel. Hundreds of times the old
bell has been silenced by some trick. and
in times long gone by the faculty used to
m3te out punishment upon any under
graduate who rang the bell without per-
mission. One of the common forms OF
punishment was to compel the offender
to rise every morning for a month and
ring the bell at Z o'clock to rouse his
fellow students.
North college, like the Lyceum, was
buiIt from funds furnished to Yale by the
state OF Connecticut. The land for these
buildings was also granted by the State
The Lyceum was erected on the site of the
first Jail of New Haven County and the
first poorhouse OF New Haven a his
torian, in describing the erection of North
college. wrote, Another dormitory was
wanted. and they hut it up as they would
have bought yari of calico. II is the
most prosaic Of all the buildings in the
old brick row. North college. like all the
buildings which formed the famous brick
row at Yale, is, indeed, a very plain struc-
ture. The college voted to build il in 1920
and it was completed II the remarkably
short time, for those days, Of one year.
1t was new and bright. and 1t at once at
tracted the seniors. and about it there
grew up many of the interesting traditions
of the college. President Day occupied a
room in the north entry on the second
floor. The father of President Hadley. of
Yale, began his career as a professor in
room in the souh entry The Yale Lit
erary Magazine. OF which William NJ.
Eyarts was one o the founders. was born
in this old dormit,ry
But most Interesting of all the traditions
which cluster abou North College is the
history Of the bully club The Lyceum
and North college b,long to an era in col
lese life when there was 10 boat club
when baseball was unknown. when none
of the mary sports Of he present dav had
been imported from the Old World. There
was then no fence. no gymnasium. no col
lege publications. none Il the many class
organiza tions. and none Of the religious
work of the present day. The only society
still exicting at Yale whici dates back TO
those days is PM Beta Kappa. the high
stand society which was th,n famous for
its annual revels when wine flowed freely
and It's members drank long and deep In
the place of the athletic and the other or
fyl+ Of q iav cy-
listed in those times a life that was typi-
fled by the college bully For almost half
a century every class at Yale had its bully
and its minor bully and under them the
lesser bullies. The bully cf the senior class
was the bully of the college. He was
hardly second power to the president him
self. ana on more than one memorable oc-
casion countermaEded the orders Of the
president and held at defiance the entire
police force OF New Haven.
The college bully was ushered into Of
fee amid impressive ceremony and in
vested with the bully club Where this
club came from none Of Yale's historians
has ever been able to discover Timid
freshmen early in the century were taught
that this was the weapon with which Her
cules slew the lien. BY some ii is be
iicved that Governor Yale brought the
club from England to fight the Indians. BY
others il is believed that the club was
taken from the SaybIoOl rioters by Yale
men when they brought the college library
away from Saybrook. Where the club