Yale University Law School - Yale Law Reporter Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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Q4 Tllli YALE SHINGLE. election. There is said to be one teetotaler in the class. Every one uses more or less slang. The uncommonest vice in the class is iiirting-the class picture indicates the cause of this. Beer is our favorite drink, closely followed by water. Then comes a great variety-mint julep, milk, whisky, sherry Hips, prairie cocktails, vichy nectar, etc. One man drinks everything, and another, following the drinker's hrst maxim, always takes the same. Nearly every man in the class has a favorite amuse- ment peculiar to himself. Two men vote for cards, and two for dancing, and then follows a long list of amusements: Yachting, boating, grinding, reading cases, working, sleeping, attending Moot Court and the theatre, billiards, answering statistic questions, hearing Lord George talk English and recite, and loahng. One man amuses himself and educates his sense of sight by watching Brecken- ridge's mustache grow. One or two amuse them- selves by coming to recitations when engagements permit.

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TIIE YALE SHINGLE. 93 Eight men say that they can extract a succession of harmonious sounds from a piano and one can play an organ. Several are skilful with hand-organs and hurdy-gurdies. Two men play the Jews' harp, while different ones play the banjo, zither, harmonica, bazoo, etc. Denniston can play any instrument from whence any sound can be made to issue. One man plays only written instruments, another preferring sealed, as the seal imports a consideration. A third confines his attention to musical instruments, Violin music and the music of the spheres are tied for first place as our favorite kind of music. Orchestra music and waltzes come next, chin music, minor chords, Wagner, brass bands, classic, Chopin, street and circus music following. Vocal music is preferred by only one man. Another is in doubt which he likes better, Lord George's After To- night, or Those Green Plush Breechesf' by the same master. We play all games ancient and modern, from foot- ball to chess. One man can play everything and another everything except tiddle-dy-winks. Our favorite game is whist, with every other game at cards mentioned. Billiards, pools, checkers, fan-tan and tag are voted for. One droll fellow says his favorite game is quail. Only three men object to cards, one when gam- bling is prohibited, another when it is not, and a third says laconically, jS53o worth. Card playing is not objectionable pw' sc, but the methods employed by some men are not satisfactory to their victims. A few members of the class do not smoke, and about as many do not bet, especially since the last

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' . ...I POLITICAL. Since the overwhelming victory of Cleveland our class has been very quiet on the subject of politics. The Republicans are still sore, the Democrats are generous. The ring in the Kent Club managed to survive, but one who had known us in the fall of 1892 would hardly recognize us now as the same class. Twelve of our number were so foolish as to vote for Harrison then, and two of these even con- fess that they had been guilty of the same folly in 1888. Eight wise men voted for Cleveland when he was last before the people for election. Major Cal- lahan has voted the straight Democratic ticket since 1872, and Conlon has never scratched but one Dem- crat, and then he bolted with his party. Two men have voted for the last three years, but most of the voters in the class have only exercised this right since the last Presidential election. Governor Morris and Governor Russell each owe our class graditude for one vote, and even the present Governor of Vermont received a vote from one member of the class. One man took advantage of the opportunity to vote for Averill for Registrar. All the voting of another has been for himself, and a third has voted an incalculable number of times to adjourn the Kent Club. Thirty- Hve men have voted at elections occurring at some time or place. Twenty-eight men are thoroughbred Republicans, one is inclined in that direction and two are Inde-