The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-20
ONLY 34 TAPPED
 |FOR MEMBERSHIP IN ELI SOCIETIES
Two Sons of Ex-PreSidents Among Those Honorcd
 With Appointments.

States, Charles Phelps Taft, End, son of ex-President William Howard Taft | and Newell Garfield, grandson o1 President James Abram Garfield, re- ceived what are generally regarded as l the highest honors yesterday at the annual celebration of Tap Day at Yale, going respectively fifteenth man and first man into Skull and Bones. the oldest of the senior societies.
 The day, unusual from the very start, on account of the fact that Il elections were given out at Palm Beach, Fla, where the Yale Aerial Coast Patrol, containing some of the most prominent men in the Junlor class, is now stationed, furnlsheo some great surprises. Most consplcu- [ous of all was the failure of Edwaro H. Clark IT,, chairman of the Yale Ds ily News, to make Keys Tor "hlch he was apparently slated, and the 1act that he received neither of the other two societies The general atmosphere of the unusual peryaded the whole cer- emony.
 This passing over of the News chair man is an unusual action and espec- ially where he is as popular mem Der of the class. bl
 At .4:45 the entire academic junior class marched out of the junior oval,
 through the entrance by Durfee nall and onto the campus. The juniors
 arranged themselves as usual in the centre of the crowd Of aSsempleo seniors, to await their fates. More than five minutes before the appolnt- ed time, Samuel S. Duryea, repre- i senting Skull and Bones, took his posi- ton behind Newell Garfield. the well known baseball pitcher and basket ball player, ready to administer the blow which would make him mem her of Yale's time-honored senior so- ciety. and two other men also cover
 ed their candidates. The hour Of 5 struck: three sounding whacks were heard. amidst bedlam of cheers, the grandson of President Garfield was moving off the nmpus, followed by Duryea.
 He was the only man of the first three that accepted the summons
 Ethan Allen Hitchcock Shepley, also a well known baseball player, refused to budgeI at the behest of the bare
 headed member of >Wolfe's Head, and
 Robert F. Deans, prominent more Tn a social way than for athletic achieve
 ments, refused his election to Scroll and Key and Bones respectively, and curiously enough, they. were the frst men tapped, they were also the only men tO turn down elections.
 The second man summoned to Bones was characterfstically, a man of literary attainments, John C.. Far. rar, chairman of the editorial board of the Yale Literary Magazine, and a man who has mes1o a name for him. self for his writings.
 Many Athletes to Bones.
 Howard M. Baldrige, star tackle for two years on the varsity football team; Raymond Shell, but yesterday afternoon elected to the captaincy of the Yale nine; Cassius M. Clay, assist ant managing editor of the Yale Daily News; Charles J. Stewart, manager of the baseball team; Allan w. Ames, quarterback on the football team; J. Elliot Woolley, assignment editor of the News; Davison and Lovett, the we'll known Yale aviators; John M. Artemas l.. Gates, captain-elect of
 
 were tapped and accepted their cleo ton into Skull and Bones.
 Scroll and Keys secured Shepley and Holden, the baseball players; Thayer, Gould, McIlwaine and Ar mour, hockey men; Lawrence of the crew, Read, manager of the football team; William B. Dana of New Ha- ven, son of Prof. Dana of Yale, and managing editor of the News, and John V. Farwell, 2nd, the track man.
 Joseph M.. Neville, who made the touchdown against Harvard in the Bowl last fall; Leslie McNaughton, the we'll known crew man; Mered1th Wood, soccer captain, and Robert E. Crotty, substitute shortstop on the nine for two years, are among the prominent selections for Wolfs Head.
 The following is a complete list or those tapped by the three societies.:
 Skull and Bones-Newell Garfield, West Mento, O.; John c. Farrar. New York; James Gould, Philadelphia; Cassius M. Clay, Paris, Ky; Charles J. Stewart, Dallas, Texas; Robert B. Deans, Phoenixville, Pa; John F. Woolley, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Raymond F. Shell, Brockton, Mass, Howard M Baldrige, Omaha Neb.; Charles F. Taft, 2d, New Haven. Tapped at Palm Beach, Allan w Ames, Chicago; Rob- ert K Lovett, Locust Valley. N. r.; Frederick Trubee Davidson, New York; Artemus l.. Gates, Clinton, la1-. John M. vorys, Columbus, 0.
 Scroll and Key-F'rede-tek w. w. Graham, Philadelphia; Ethan A. Shep' ley, St. Louis, Mo; Wilmhrth s. Lewis, Alameda, Cal; Arthur c. Crunden, St. Louis, Mo; Frederick M. Thayer, Philadelphia; Robert F. Holden, Proctor, Vt; William B. Dana, New Haven; Lester Armour, New York, Frank Mauran, IT,, Philadelphia. Tapped at Palm Beach, Reginald G. Coombe, New York; John V. Farwell, 3rd, Lake Forest, H.; Earl Gould, New York; George F. Lawrence, Jr., Short Hills, N. J.; Archibald G. McIlwaine, End. Hartford; Curtis s. Read, New York.
 Wolfs Head7-Maynard c. Ivison, New York; Frederick R. Lovejoy, Montclair, N. J.; Joseph M. Neville, Meredith B. Wood, New York; William s. Walbridge. Toledo, O.; Robert E. Crotty, Pawtucket, R. l.; Henry F. Salyards. Duluth, Minn.; Charles c. Heard, Pittsburgh, Pa; S. Adams, St. Louis, Mo; Robert F. Daley, Beverly. Mass: Les lie M. MacNaughton, Fort Edward, N. Y; Andrew P. Calhoun, Cleveland, O.: