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

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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

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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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ATHLETICS Circumstances conspired to make '94 unique among classes in the history of the Yale Law School. It fell to her lot to organize and maintain a base ball team, winning honor and renown, and finally bring- ing home to the School the only trophy ever won in a VVorld's Intercollegiate Base Ball Tournament. The team was an outgrowth of the ill-favored undergraduate rule, the rule which cost Yale the championship in both base ball and football and threatened to annihilate the Yale spirit which has won our Alma Maier' so much glory. When the obnoxious rule was promulgated '94 was the first to take active measures in opposition. These culminated in the famous University meeting of Feb. I, 1893, when the rule was defeated-502 to 440. Had this vote gone the other way no such thing as the Law School Nine would ever have existed. But fate decreed otherwise. The vote was not allowed to stand and was reversed in the very ques- tionable proceedings that took place about a fort- night later. Then it was that the spirit of ,Q4H was roused. The red-hot meetings for permanent organization of a Law School Base Ball Association followed, in which even the county sheriff was moved to take a hand. In spite of jealousy and suspicion, in the face of the most strenuous opposition, in defi- ance of the most subtle wire pulling of certain mem-