The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-05
SERIOUS STUDENT FIGHT.
SHEET GLASSES 4TT4CK EACH
 OTHER AFTER MIDNIGHT.

The Continuation of a Bitter Fued Be.
 tween the Seniors and Freshmen
 Assistant In the sheR Laboratory
 Banged Up-Freshman sedIoy Said to
 Have Been the Cause.
 It is the custom at Yale to have inter-
 class football games, inter- class base
 ball games and inter-class hockey
 games, but this morning shortly after
 midnight a new custom, that of having inter-class prize-fghts, was inaugural ed. Several members of the senior and
 freshman classes of the Sheffield Scien- 1 tific school met on Wall street and en-
 gagged in one of the most bloody and
 fierce hand-to-hand fights that has ever
 taken place between the members of 1 the classes in the university. The feud that eliminated in the fierce fight this
 morning had been growing for several
 days and the history of the affair is
 this:
 | Friday night a number of Shelf. sen- ! iors who live in "The Hart a students i boarding house on Wall street decided to stay up all night and make life mis- erable for the members of the freshman class, who live in the same building. | This they succeeded in doing, and as they, together with their friends, out numbered the freshmen, they were left severely alone.
 Saturday night, however, a number of Shelf freshmen in "The Hart" de- cided to pay back what they were obliged to take on the previous night. They borrowed a number of their class from the different streets and after midnight Saturday proceeded to "The Hart" and succeeded in bothering the seniors and keeping them pretty much awake all Sunday morning.
 The seniors. got together and started to wipe out the freshmen. In this they were unsuccessful They had hand to-hand fight and came out second best. They then plotted to make the fresh man leaders apologize, and it was de- cided to capture Henry M Sedley, who is more or less known, and make him apologize for the class. He was said to be the leader. The attack was to have been made last night As one of the seniors said, ''the cat leaked out of the bag" and the freshmen were on. Sed- ley banded together thirty of his class mates and Owsley the football player was one of the ''generals." The seniors swooped down on Sedley's room, No. 152 Grove street, about midnight, but they were outnumbered two to one and they returned to the vicinity of "The Hart" The freshmen followed, and when in front of "The Hart the classes clashed. l The fight lasted about thirty minutes, | and nearly all of the participants came | away the worse for it. Blood was spill | ed and several of the men were seri- | ously cut. It is alleged that the senior | leaders were H. $. Bristol, an assistant l in the Shelf laboratory, and Nathaniel 1 Potter. of Rochester. BristoPs eye was badly banged up and he is not over anxious to take his class of Shelf. freshmen in the laboratory this morn ing. The names of others who were | in the fight could not be learned 1 this morning. The fight ended when | Sedley was caught and made to apolo- gize. He said: "If I have offended the dignity of the senior class I apologize Then Potter. in behalf of the seniors, said: That is all we want" whereupon Sedley almost caused another riot by sayirg: "we accept your apology" He vas hustled away out of danger