The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-15
YALE'S TAP DAY TREE
DRAPED IN MOURNING
Upper Classmcn Show Sorrow
over Restrictions Placed
ON Notable Event.
ENTHUSIASM Is LACKING
Athletes Favored by Skull and
Boncs-Many New York
crs slapped"

New HAVEN, May 1.-THE old oak
tree on the Yale campus, right in front
~ purfee Hall and almost under the clock
tower Of Bnttell Chapel. was draped in
HACK bunting this morning when the men
vent TO chapel. That was the appropriate
,xnression IN the minds OF some Yale
men OF their sorrow because the ccre-
mony Of Tap Day. which was to-day. was
not ~ be held under its wide branches
As Of yore.
Under the reform plan the forty-five
elections of juniors TO the three senior
societies, Skulls and Bones, Scroll and
Kew and VOLTS Head, were held not on
the campus at all but in the bleak red
walled enclosure OF Berkeley oval. This
made IL "A strictly private affair.
During the night men from one OF the
upper classes had bound the entire trunk
OF the tree with black bunting and had
even climbed in;o the top branches to
make the mourning spectacle complete. As
soon as the college officials got wind Of
T. several workmen were sent TO tear the
drapeTics down.
The absence OF much OF the spectacu-
lar element OF the old time election and
what seemed to graduates "A general lack
os enthusiasm, except for an occasional
ou,burst were the noticeable points In the
senior elections. Not even the relatives
and friends Of the juniors were allowed
within the oval. Neither were the under
ciassnlcn
But hundreds OF townspeopie crowded
outside the gates and hung To the iron
ratings to get a glimpse of the men who
were In the oval waiting for tho elections
at s o'clock.
The turning down OF Bones for Keys by
Norman Naux Donaldson OF Philadelphia.
coxswain OF the crew last year. was al
most the only Interruption to the after
moor schedule Donaldson was among the
first men tapped. Dick Douglass. the
chairman of the Yale Daily Neics, tap
ping him for Keys almost at the same
time that Clement Gle tapped him for
Bones II Ia generally believed to-nlgh.
that Donaldson did not turn down Bones.
bit that in the excitement he failed 20
grasp the situation that he was tapped for
both.
Among the men who got tremendous
cheer when they received their election for
Bones was Howard A. Pumpeily Yale $
gre. captain OF the varsity crew and John
S, Reilly Of Brooklyn. baseball play cr.
were picked for Bones
The election OF Edwin \. Burt Of this
city. president OF Phi Beta Kappa. was
popular one. As usual most Of the
athletes went 10 Bones and only two or
three n Keys. The following were elected
to Skull and Bones
Edwin Slocum. Montclair, y. J. : Walker
Fly Swift. New York; Archibald Mac
Leish. Glencoe. H.; Ranald Macdonald
lr. New York; Harold Armstrong PUN.
pelly, Oswego. y. l.. Lyon Carter. Hart
ford Louis Shelton Middlebrook. Hart
FORD; John 8. Reilly. Brockton. Mass
william Martindale Shedden. Brookline
Irving Paris. New York: Thomas Hildry
Cornell, New York stephen Rintoul Dav-
export, staten Island. -. y Edward
James Stackpoic. Harrisburg Pa
Thomas Bayne penegre. New Orleans
Ia.
Scroll and Key:
Norman Naux Donaldson Philadelphia
Pa: Iohn Wesley Hanes. Winston salem
y. G.. Boy,tston Adams Tompkins. Tren
ton y. j. Winslow Shelby Coates. Cppel
Montclair. y. j. Kenneth Duryee Hull
Morristown. y. j. Dean Gooderham Ache
son, Mddlctowr, Conn: COLES Johnston
Coe. New York; William Hunting or
lessup Trenton, y. J.; John Crosb,
Brown I'd. New York Henry Blair Keep
Chicago; John Wesley Castles, Morris
town, y. J., Joseph Frederick Stillman
New York Arthur Farwell futile. LAX,
Forest, III. Joseph Walker 80, New York
William Willard Croker. Burllngame
Cal
Volts Head.
Howard Elwood Beedy. Camden. Me.
Albert Herman Ely. Jr.. New York FRANZ
wright futile, New York: Charlie
andrew Merz. Sandusky, OHIO; Richar,
.lsha Wheeler. New Haven Georg
washington Ewing ith. Baltimore Theo
aore Philip Swift. Chicago John Crul
Herman, Harrisburg. Pa DOUGLASS Stew
Az Moore, BROOKLYN Stanley Morrison
Redlands cal Thomas Pierrepont Haz
ara, Pedcedale. r. ]. Vallean Wikie. Ney
lorK Harry J. Wiser Prescott. Ont
,eolge Patterson Crandall, Westheld, \