The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1915-06-03
YALE'S GREAT OAK
SEES TAP Day AGAIN
speeial b The ~ Yort rine..

New Haven. May 20. This was
"Tsp-dav" at Yale, and forty-five
juniors learned that they had been
elected to membership in the three
senior secret societies Skull and Bones,
Scroll aud Key, and VOLTS Head.
Last year, in response to criticism
that it was undesirable to expose to the
public the chagrin and disappointment
of juniors who missed election, and
that the exercises as formerly conduct
ed tended too much to the Qualification
of certain selected members of the
lower class, the ceremony was held
privately on Berkeley Oval but this year
Tap day came into its own again, when
the tapping was done in the main cam
pus opposite Durfee hall. in the open
space so that enterprising Yale men
might not climb into the tree and shout
down disconcerting remarks during the
affair
Dean Jones issued instructions early
in the day that none but juniors and
seniors should be admitted to the cam
pus, and that the gate should be locked
and temporary fences put up to keep
out those who did not belong to either
class. The order was that the campus
was to be closed at 4:30 D. m, half
hour before the beginning of the cere-
monies, but it was only few minutes
after 4 when guards were placed at the
gates, ropes were stretched across open
space and the campus was closed as
tight as a drum.
Notwithstanding all these precau-
tions several hundred were on the
campus when the clock in the tower
of Battel chapel struck five. Some of
the early ones on the scene climbed
into the limbs Of the old Elm near Bat
tell chapel, from the branches CT which
they could get full view of the pro-
ceedings. From there and from the
windows of adjacent dormitories re-
marks were made as different seniors
appeared on the campus to tap their
men.
The undergradu ate dope" for the
past few weeks has been that athletes
and managers displeased with the at
titude of some of old bones" men in
athletics, were going to show their dis
approval by going to Keys" When
the time came they did, and with a
vengeance.
The surprise of the afternoon was
the turning down by two men of ar
election tor Bones for Keys. These were
Dan Collier Elkin of Lancaster, KY,
manager of the Yale crew, and JohT
Henry Vincent of Minneapolis. son OF
the president of the university of Min
nesota, who is a very popular Yale
graduate and an enthusiastic Keys man
Keys appeared to be very jubilant
over the men they got. Some of whom
are Hampton. Yale's leading broaC
jumper; Capt. Alec Wilson of the foot
ball team, "Pie" Way, the Yale pitch
err; Darlington, manager of the foot
ball team; Burgess, captain of thu
hockey team; Hamilton, president O.
the Dramatic association; Proctor
chairman of the Yale News. Croker
the first man tapped. who led the las
junior promenade, Dan Collier Elkin
who turned down Bones, the manage
Of the Yale crew and popular under
graduate.
The appearance of Captain Middle
brook on the campus was the sigma
for prolonged cheer that broke on
still more enthusiastically as he mad,
known his choice. Daniel Collier Elixir
was the first man tapped for Bones BY
Harold Pumpelly. the football player
He was enthusiastically cheered. anc
great excitement prevailed when it was
later known that he threw "Bones. 4"