The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22
YALE OBSERVES "TAP-DAY"
SEVERAL SURPRISES OCCURRED
 DURING THE EXERCISES.

One Junior Rejected Skull and Bones
 Another Refused Election 60 wOIf's
 Head and Was Taken by BOnes-SOme
 Who Were Not Taken-POpuIar Elso-
 tIon of F. Erastus PIerce-NeV Haven
 Boy Chosen.
 Tap day. was observed by the Yale senior academic societies on the Yale campus yesterday afternoon. The cam pus was thronged with students from all parts of the university. and hum dreds of local residents. together with large number of people from out of town. Promptly at o'clock the first man was tapped" and this first tap ping" created the surprise of the day. George s. Munson, one of the most pop ular men of the junior class, was tap ped' at one and the same time by rep resentatives or Skull and Bones, and Scroll and Key. The crowd shouted for Munson to take Bones. but he decided in favor of Keys.
 Other surprises of the day consisted of W. B. Soper rejecting Wolf's Head and then being taken by Skull and Bones; while Henry H. Stebbins, presi- dent of the Yale Y. M. c. A; Alexander Gordon, chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine; Lawrence Mason. one of the Yale News editors. and George Victor, prominent in football, were not chosen. A great surprise. but a very popular election occurred when F. Erastus Pierce, 8 student who is working his way through college was 'tapped'' for Skull and Bones. He is a member of Zeta Psi, junior fraternity; and member Of the board of editors of the Yale Literary Magazine, and an inter- collegiate debater.
 One New Haven boy, William B. Ely, was elected to Wolf's Head.
 The elections follow:
 Skull and Bones-Lansing Parmelee Reed, Holyoke, Mass, by Henry c. Holt, New York city: James E. Miller. New York city, by F. W. Wilhelmi; Freder- ick H. Wiggin. jr.. Litchfield, Conn.,. by c. J. Hamlin: Percy H. Jennings. New York city. by H. T. Clark; John c. Kittle of Ross, Call, by Brewer Flew itt Winthrop Murray Crane, jr, Dal- ton, Mass, by H. H. Wallace; Harold c. Metcalf. Auburn. N. Y, by F. W. Moore: G. w. Adams. Utica. N. r.. by Donald Thompson: F. T. Dodge. New York city, by A. J. Waring; Russell Cheney, South Manchester. Conn. by John R. White: Thomas Day Thacher, New York city, by George B. Chadwick; Charles E. Adams Of Toledo. O., by Stuart B. Sutphin: William B. Soper, Bloomingdale H., by John M. Dreis- bach; F. Erastus Pierce, South Britain, Conn.,, by Albert R. Lamb; Waiter s. Cross. F'itchburg. Mass, by Erastus Corning.
 Scroll and Key-George S. Munson, Wiliamsport, Pa, by c. R. Auchincloss; John F. Byers, Alleghany City, Pa, by. J. R. Robinson: Nelson s. Campbell. Providence, P. l.. by B. M. Smith; James Cox Brady, Albany, N. T., by .. L. DuVal: Edward W. Clucas. New York city, by H.. Potter: David Boies Of Scranton, Pa, by Charles W. Little field; Fayette Brown, jr, Cleveland O., by J. B. Thomas, jr.; Morgan Goetchius, New York city, by A. D. Dodge; Gerald Chittenden, New York city, by F. J. AL sop; Justice Wilson, Toledo, O.. by J. w. Reynolds; Julian B. Huff, Greensburg, Pa, by Robert R. Mccormick: Alexan- der H. Olmsted, Lakeville, Conn.,, by c. c. Auchincloss; W. Ledyard Mitchell, Cincinnati, O., by George A. Goss; George E.' Parks. Providence. by Will liam Frew, and Burnside Winslow, Phil adelphia, by Orion J. Willis.
 Wolf's Head-Fred c. Baldwin, Hono- lulu, H. L. by R. s. Mcknight: George A. Mohlman. New York city, by c. Douglass Green: John E. Woodruff, Brooklyn. N. Y, by Charles Hitchcock, jr Arthur Havemeyer, New York city, by H. W. DuPuy: James H. Brewster, jr., Hartford, by Ralph Bristol; Howard Drummond. New York, by G. A. Coch- | ran; John A. Moorhead, Alleghany, Pa, 1 by A. M. Oliver; George T. Lane, Troy, N. Y, by Henry James; Thomas L. Jef- 1 ferson, jr.,, Louisville Ky, by Randolph | Lyons; Joseph L. Gray, Cincinnati, O., 1 by Paul F. Mann; William B. Ely New 1 Haven, Conn. by Williab B. Tyler; L. Hastings Arnold. ir.. New York city, ! by Howard A. Plumrner. jr.: Paul E. ] Ney Hartford. Conn.,. by William S. Fulton; Edgar Munson, 2d.. Williams port, Pa. by James B. Minor.
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