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

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'l'lIl'I VALIC SIIINGLE. IGB Very few men use glasses constantly. Six or eight use them to read or study with. Reasons for wearing them are, among others, hereditary, looks digni- fied, eyes injured by gun powder, and weak, cross-eyed from trying to watch three men at once in a poker game, etc. The prevailing reason for not wearing them is that they are not needed, or come too high. One man uses glasses only when they are full, and another when he can't get a stein. One uses opera glasses in place of the ordinary thing. The color of our hair is brown, black, tow, straw, llaxen, blonde, and every other hue of the rainbow and spectrum. Gouraud says his is blonde, nice and curly, while Baum takes great pride in his wavy auburn tresses. Donovan says his ambrosial locks are gilt-colored, while Conlon's hair is of an invisible shade. Mustaches are scarce in the class, with the excep- tion of Foster's and Callahan's truculent one. Ful- ler's has such a willowy droop that you look twice ere you realize what it is. Bosley, in emulation of certain Thespians, removed a very Hourishing one. Five others lay pretensions to them, although, in their present embryonic stage, it is hard to say what the future has in store for them. Havana, black, clay, blonde and yellow are given as the colors, one man says, in disgust, it would be red. Only one man says his mustache is a complete success-he says, It is a complete disguise when gone. Another calls his a vested, springing use. Fuller, of late, has been trying experiments with his face, and the more immediate results of his efforts are that his appear-

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102 Tllli YAl,l'l SI'lINGl,l'l. Donovan has a neck which the Dennis in Bar- naby Rudgeu would have gloated over--it takes a sixteen and one-half collar to surround it. Dennis- ton also wears the same size, but ordinarily a collar is not worn as a disguise. Sixteens are quite common among the larger men in the class. Only fourteen inches are necessary to conceal Dowd's larynx. Hayden llike many others, wears only fourteen and one-half, but he compensates for shortness in length by immense altitudes. Number ten is the size of the receptacles in which Marvin and Adams enease their feet. No other size above nine is reported. Dowd wears the smallest shoe, three and one-half, VVright next with a four and one-half, Baum following with a five. Of course our eyes are of many different colors, blue being the most common. Gray follows next, and then comes brown. The rest are all different, from Breckenridgds Cimmerian black to Bonsall's liquid, cerulean gray. Several with yellow-green claim blue eyes, and two say their eyes are hazel. One says his are mottled, and another says his are white, gray and black in zones. Our noses are all shapes from Weiser's pronounced Roman to I-Iardy's plain American. Bonsall's varies with each football season. Hayden claims a Titian style. A harmonious blending of all extant styles, pug, very best, large enough for ordinary, the only style I've ever used, correct, proper, Roman, Graeco-Roman, Grecian, 'flineal para- bola, present style, . etc., are descriptions of all kinds of noses, from Moore's retrozasse to Sherman's gibbous style.

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IO4 'l'lIl'l VALIC SHINGLIC. ance in recitation wakes to ecstasy a hundred hidden Aiolian lyres,whose mournful sighs hinder our progress in law. Very few remark on their personal appearance. Modesty makes us reticent. Jacques and Gouraud tell us what the girls think of them, and it is evident, from their accounts, that both are winners Bald- win gives us a spray of local rhyme: Oh, I'm a dashing Beacon swell, As you can plainly see, With whiskers rare and complexion fair, The world's in love with me. Only a poet can take such liberties with the truth. Tall and thin, no dude, neat, but not gaudy, most unprepossessing, impressive, discourag- ing, are examples of the various criticisms passed. The Major congratulates himself on his military bearing and good carriage. Carey thinks he resem- lmlcs George Washington. The Rogue's Gallery con- tains the counterfeit of one man. The rest, con- scious of mistreatment at Nature's hands and feeling the extent of their misfortune, refrain from comment. I