The Washington herald., 1908-06-24
TAFT LEADS YALE
ALUMNI PARADE
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and after that. IL there was any such
thing as dignity lurking around, 1t wasn't
visible to the naked eye.
These 9S graduates caught the big Sec
retary Just right. They were all dressed
In cowboy and Rough Rider uniforms.
and they came in with a big pun of
smoke and 200 bangs. Each had bis fight
ing iron. They cavorted over the field
to the west stand, and put up another
blank-cartridge salute. The Secretary
stood up and waved his hat TO them.
The class OF 'O2. academic. dressed as
highlanders. except that the Yale blue
took the place of plaids, lined up in front
Of Mr.. Taft and fired this. set 20 tune
that nobody ever heard before:
Everybody takes his hat on 10 Taft.
Hat of. hat of. hat of to Taft.
This also called for a special acknowl-
edgment from the Secretary. Other
cally garbed.
Little Baby in Wagon.
A long troop Of scientific men in 1902
dressed as Turks. had a wagon with
little baby in it at its head. Our first
production" was the legend above it.
The class department of vital statistics
displayed these figures:
One hundred and twenty-eight in the class.
Twenty-eight married
One hundTed happy.
This placard drew a laugh from the
Secretary:
Our platfom-Taft and the fun stein.
The class Of 1905. scientific. had nice
live bull with two legs. They were
dressed as matadors. Secretary Taft was
having lots of fun watching them. and so
also was a lght-haired fat man who sat
two sections away from the Secretary in
the front row. He was a dead ringer for
Taft. and so the class Of 1903 weren't so
much 10 blame when they walked right
past the real thing and drew up in front
! Of the likeness. They started up:
Everybody takes his hat of to-
And the blond fat man. rising in his
seat, tried 10 shoe them away with his
hat. The '05 men were encouraged by the
special favor which had been accorded TO
| them.
The Secretary had not waved his hat
| as hard as that TO any OF the other
classes They were just going to make
another circle in front Of the stand for
extra measure when wild-eyed usher
put them wise.
Then the nameless fat man apologized
10 the class for looking like Taft. and the
class apologized for thinking he did. and
/ both bowed their apologies to the real
Secretary.
/ Between the cheering the Secretary was
/ kept busy signing autograph albums and
| holding graduates babies on his lap.
! Mr. Taft. in the course Of the game.
managed 70 pound his straw hat on the
railing in front Of him. but 1t was still
presentable when he went down onto the
| field after the victory. He was surround
/ ed by a great crowd that insisted on
/ shaking hands.
He left this afternoon in the car with
/ his class opposite the college green and
started a march toward President Had
ley's house. A big crowd followed the
! class
President Hadley, in reply 70 the calls
Of Secretary Taft and the other boys.
came out on the veranda. Looking at
Mr.. Taft. he reminded him that the first
time he had met him was on the night Of
the rush against the sophomores thirty
four years ago.
HndIey n Junior Then.
Mr. Hadley was then a junior in the
class OF 1876 and the juniors. Of course,
sided with the freshies in their fight
against the sophomores
I need not add said President Had
ley. that on that night he in every way
gave US a harbinger OF the qualities that
he was going 10 display all the rest Of his
life"
Tonight a dinner was held al the New
Haven Country Club.
Among others who spoke al the dinner
were Secretary Tart. Rev. Charles F. Car
ter. Of Lexington. Mass: Judge George B.
Edwards Of Kentucky; James NJ Lam
berton. of Harrisburg. Pa. and ex-Judge
/ Howard Hollister. Of Cincinnati