Year: 1867

lHE gTaQuaLCS OF i 1ale COnGgG nave


queer custom Of coming back after grad.


uation of coming back after graduation


and presenting silver cup to the frs
married graduate who can produce his


wife and baby in support of his preten.
sions to being the leader in the domestic
line. The New Haven correspondent oi
the New York Tribune, gives the follow,


ing account Of the presentation by the


class Of 1864 to class-mate who was


the first to win the honOrs Of Wedlock


and paternity.


" IF this odd notion is not peculiar to


Yale, it must be, at least, I should think,
peculiar to America Tt certainly has


an air Of originality that gives it a de-


cidcd relish.


We slowly pushed up into the sup
porroom. where we found the class Of


81 seated about the tables ranged along


two sides and across the upper end of


the room, while the company found
seats IN plenty OF settocs ranged between


these tables and the wall. Then the


gallery at the opposite end was filed,


and then benches were brought and plae-
ed across the open square, and when all
were seated it would have been hard to


find any where a brighter or more cheer


full audience than this, made up almost
entirely Of young men and young wo-


mer, with younger boys and girls. All
at once, there was a clapPiDg of hands,
and light bursts Of laughter, and the aU-
dieuco rose to its feet as the young hus-
hand and his wife, and the nurse carrying
the baby, and the escort Of friends came
in and passed to their seats at the upper
end of the hall. The husband and faith
er, the Rev. Walter Battershall, has
reason to be proud both Of the baby and
its mother; itw was pretty to see the lady's
graceful unaffected way Of taking her
honors, and pretty to watch the little
baby Of ten months acting before these
two or three hundred people as uncon-
sciOusly rs If he we're in his own nurse
~. To see him take the cup, which was
almost as big as himself, into his little
hand, and put it right away to his mouth,
and then look up and crow out the most
thanks to the gentleman that
gave it to him, and then take another
drink, and then flourish it in the air to
that extent that it looked every minute
as if he we're going to throw it over his
head and then to see the stolied way
in which he took the three cheers for the
baby, and the three cheers for the father,
and the three cheers for the mother, and
the three cheers for the family, nev9r
once winking but throwing, in tiger
in the shape Of lusty crow at the end
Of each battery, and then getting ready
for the next by taking a long pull at his
eup-all this was a wonder to behold
If he understood the speaking he must
have found it, as we did, very good in |
deed. He listened as if he understood |
it, and sat straight up in his nurses lap
while Mr.. Whitney poured ont, with the |
gravest face in the world his excellent !
okes and puns; and when Mr.. Anketell !
With admirable tact and delicacy, sent |
III of us outsiders home, begging US to /
3scort the baby, who the class thought, !
)ught by this time, 1t being then l
)'clook, to be in bed, Master Frederick
submitted to be carried Off with the best
graee in the world, and bade as all good |
light with another aurish of the cup and
he merriest succession Of crows that
.vcr a baby gave"