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EIGHTY-EIGHT S. S. S. A VIEW OF HER COLLEGE COURSE. FRESI-IMAN YEAR. At twelve o'clock on the morning of September twenty-fourth, 1885, there assembled in room thirty-seven, North Sheflield Hall, ninety-three young men, who had collected from fourteen states and territories and two foreign countries, to learn what they could at the Sheffield Scientific School. It was the lirst meeting of the class of '88, whose course is now almost completed. It was the beginning of our college life. Prof. Brewer, in the absence of Prof. Brush, was acting director. He told ns what would be expected in the way of conduct, informed us that Prof. Mixter would be our class officer, announced the text books for the first term, distributed the schedules of recitation hours and divided the class into two divisions. The first division consisted of Alexander to Johnson, inclusive, and the second the remainder of the class. At eight o'clock Friday morning we attended the first 1'ecitation, and thereafter our course has been checkered with alternate flanks and rushes WVe took up Analytics at the beginning of the term, leaving Spherical Trigonometry till later, thus reversing the usual order of things. On Saturday evening, in response to the polite invitation of the Seniors, about fifty of us assembled in front of South Sheff, and, marshaled by the Seniors in high hats and linen dusters, marched down Grove to,Orange and out Orange toward East Rock. Meanwhile the Juniors had gathered at North Sheff and from there proceeded to the junction of Humphrey and Orange streets, where they awaited our approach. Here the opposing columns met. No one wl1o was in the general confusion which followed knows what hap- pened, but the News said that we won, and we are satisfied with

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SALUTATORY. In compiling the following pages we have acted in accordance with our best ideas and have been little guided by previous Sheff. compilations as regards form, arrangement and matters of statistical interest. Our aim has been to furnish as accurate a record of the achievements of the class as the informa- tion handed in would permit, omitti: g that class of incidents best handled by the Class Historians. Two heliotype groups have been introduced, surnames have been substituted for initials, and in many minor particulars eiforts have been made to improve upon preceding publications of the same nature, and to stamp the book with a certain cachet of individuality. Our acknowledgments are due to Mr. Howard L. Isbell for the prepossessing exterior of the book. ' That the '88 S. Class Book may have been successful in gathering up our achievements and experiences. and in winding a string of narrative around them, which shall indelibly engrave them upon our memories, and which shall meet with the approval of the class is the desire of r THE STATISTICIAN S. YALE Unrvansrrr, May 1, 1888. 4

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6 Yale '88 tl1eir verdict. The crowd then pushed on to the vacant lot below, where, aftel' we had defeated the juniors in another push rush, a ring was formed and the wrestling began. Appleton, '86, was chosen referee. The Juniors presented Judson for the heavy-weight bout and we put up Carter against him. The contest was a very excit- ing one, Judson winning the first fall, Carter the second and Judson the third, after a hard struggle. Coleman, '87, and Reed, '87, threw Bull and Le Sassier twice in succession in the light and feather-weight wrestling. In both cases the Juniors outweighed their opponents. The shirt rush which followed was the most suc- cessful of its kind, and the spoils were about evenly divided. We got along very pleasantly with the Juniors for the rest of the year, and only a VGI'y few of us were taken out. The following Monday Franchot was elected President 'of the boat club and Davison, Secretary and Treasurer. Later in the year Davison resigned and Pratt was elected in his place. Dann was captain of the Freshman -nine, and Dann, p., Davol, l. f., Greer, 2d b.. and Osborn, c., played in the Freshman-Sophomore game. The Sophomores won by ascore of four to three, but they declined to rush, and we marched home in a body and took the Freshman fence. This act, however, aroused the Sophomores, and our seats were quickly made untenable. Bull, No. 1, Bond, No. 23 Dockendorf, No. 3, Carter, No. 45 Stewart, No.5 5 Franchot, stroke, and Esterbrook, coxswain, repre- sented Sheff in the Fall races, which, for the first time in three years, were 1'owed on Lake Saltonstall. Our hopes were high, but the long listof Academic victories remained unbroken, and we were defeated by fifteen seconds. Nothing of particular interest, classwise, happened during the remainder of the year. Our class oflicers were: Davison, presi- dent, Carter, vice-president, and Prouty, secretary. Davison won the mile walk and second prize in the board jump at the Fall games. Bull, Le Sassier, Osborn, Pratt and Wilcox, played on the Freshman eleven, and Bull and Carter played on the University eleven in the game in which Lamar's famous run lost the champion- ship for Yale. During all this time we were swinging clubs in the Gymnasium, and about twenty of us were :reciting Latin to Prof. Wheeler three times a week. In December an accident at the Art School destroyed our portfolios and injured the drawings which represented hours of tedious labor in the basement of the Art School. i