Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-16

1 year was very different affair from any of the past It was the result of
 the recent reform action of the soph-
 ofnore class, supported by the fresh
 man class. In carrying out this policy,
 the freshman class Wednesday and | the sophomore class today voted to
 remain away from the campus during | the hour of tapping" and since the
 public also was excluded by order of Dean Jones' Tap day was shorn of
 most of it's spectacular side. The verz
 dict of the sophomore class on the ! fairness of the choice will determine i whether the sophomore will present ! themselves for election next year. /! Tap day, on which elections are giv- i en to the three senior societies at i ale, was today the quietest of it's l iklnd in years. The lack of demOnStra- I tion was due to the agitation against senior society methods of conducting i elections, begun more than year ago. None but members of the junior and senior societies and g few graduates 1 were allowed on the campus Other under classmen kept to their rooms. ! Newspapermen and photographers i were barred also.
 Special significance was attached to ] the day this year from the action taken i by the sophomores pledging them ! selves not to accept elections unless 1 they weree given on merit alone. It j is the cOncensuS of opinion of college men that today's elections are gener- ally satisfactory and that the demands ! of the sophomores have been granted ! Long before the appointed hour of i five, juniors and seniors gathered be-
 meath the elnns near Battel chapel. ! There was hardly sound during the
 last five minutes before elections were 1 scheduled to begin. When the chapel | bell struck five o'clock the tapping l began and was finished shortly after ] six.
 Skull and Bones gave elections to i eight athletes out of the fifteen men; ! Scroll and Keys took but three ath- ! letes the rest being men prominent in i literary work and Wolfs Head select 1 ed a variety of men, both literary and athletic.
 Henry H Ketcham, football captain 1 for next year. was the last man tapped | for Bones while Richard Douglas, chairman of the Yale News board, was
 the last man tapped for Keys. Bus i Brown. pitcher on the baseball team,
 was the last man tapped for Wolf's ! Head. John Kilbreth refused an cleo i tion to Bones, one of the very few men who have ever done so. He av- cepted an election to Keys. Thomas Daniels refused an election to Keys, going to Bones later.
 One rioticea ble feature this year was l that there were few disappointments, practically all the men prominent in | l4iG Ncil iClS 4I11Co OL COAiCSC cLCtlfll$ De- 1 ing chosen.
 l The following men were tapped in 1 the order named. the highest honor
 going to the last man selected: i Skull and Bones.
 i Richard Osborn. Fall River, Mass; 1 Thomas l.. Daniels, St. Paul. Minn.; 1 Clement M Gne. Colorado Springs,
 Ann Arbor Mich; Stoddard King, 1 Spokane Washn.; Percy G. Cornish, l AIberquerque N. NJ: Lorrin A. Shep- ! hard East Orange N. J. Henry w. i Hobson, Colorado Springs. Colo: Her 1 man L. Rogers, Hyde Park, N Y; l Almet F. Jenl1s, Jr. Brooklyn, N. Y; 1 William c. Warren Jr.. Buffalo, N. Y; l William J. Lippincott. Cincinnati; i George c. Jones, New Haven Conn: Benjamin F. Avery Aurora, N. Y; l Henry H. Ketcham, Brooklyn. N. Y.
 Scroll and Keys.
 1 John c. Kilbreth, Woodmere. L. T.; 1 William Schieffiin, Jr. New York: Ed mund !, Phelps, Minneapolis, Minn.; Allen Evans. Jr. Haverford, Pa; 1 Francis Bergen. Bernardsville, N. J.; | Gurney L. Smith. Syracuse N. Y; { Kenneth Moore. Detroit Mich: Hugh l Harbinson. Hartford Conn: Richard Dyer Chester, Pa; Watson Harpham, Forest, Ills; Nathaniel Wheeler. Fair ! field, Conn; Ehrman Mitchell, IT, 1 Harrisburg Pa; Sloan Colt, New York N, Y; Richard Douglas, Phila- delphia.
 Wolfs Head
 l Morgan Moves, Warren. Pa. T1au- renee Marks Brooklyn. N. V; John T. Blossom, East Cleveland Ohio: Coleman E. McGovern. New York N 1 Y: Frederic G. Blackburn. Pittsburgh Pa; George H. Semler. New York. N Y.; Alexander M. Hammer. Brookline Mass. Scott H. Paradise. West Med- ford Mass: Norman K. Evans. Pitts burgh, Pa. Harold l.. Hemingway ] New Haven Conn: William S Innis New York, N Y; George De F. Lord ] Cedarhurst, l.. l.; Charles M Baxter | Knoxville Tenn; Everett D. Davis, Elizabeth, N. J.; Carl c. Brown. Err win, Tenn.
 Dean r. s. Jones of the college said l tonight that he was very happy over the result of today's ceremonies. He feels that the objections made by the sOphomOres have been recognized by the societies and that the men were selected on merit alone The men i elected this year are noticeably strong, said Dean Jones, and certain ly no one can object to them" He was particularly pleased with the fact l that scholarship had been given great CT recognition than in some years Eleven of the men elected are mem | bers of Phi Beta Kappa.