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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

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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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Class Book. 7 At Christmas we were examined in German and Analytics, and when college opened again began Gem-lings Deutche Lesebuchj' read Die Sechs Diener and stumbled over the iambic-pentamater lines of Die Teilung der Erdef' In January Bull, Pratt and YOUNG went to New York to select a cane for the class, and Shigemi began to lecture to the people of New Haven on The Manners and Customs of the Japanese? The '87 Junior promenade occurred on the night of February ninth, and on the evening of February twenty-first there appeared all over town those '88 S. posters. The next morning, headed by a band and accompanied by '89, we paraded through the principal streets with our banners, serenaded Proi'.Brcwer,Cady's and Nott's, and showed the college the proper way to celebrate YVashington's birthday. i During the first week in March the winter games were held in the old gymnasium and our class was well represented. Le Sassier and Stewart were on the Sheff. tug-of-war team,fwhich won the University championship. SAGE won the light weight sparring, defeating Rogers 2893 Bean won the feather weight wrestling, Davison the light weight wrestling, Carter defeated Gill '89 in the heavy weight wrestling. Stewart and Bond '86 S., gave an exhibition on the horizontal bar. C. B. Berger, C. E. Curtis and Moore had been appointed to the editorial boards of the Rec- ord, Courant and News respectively. Later in the same month came that memorable day. when twenty of the second division cut Prof. YVheeler's recitation in a body, and received two zeros, and were deprived of two cuts for so doing. Then as the time for the Easter recess drew near we began to prepare for our first final examinations. Chemistry, Analytics, English, and the first half of Physics were what troubled us and proved stumbling blocks to several. The Easter recess came' and went and left us plodding along in the same track, except that Botany and Physical Geography were substituted for Chemistry and English. Ten succeeded in making Prof. Eaton believe they knew something about Botany, and were excused from recitations. Meanwhile. athletics were booming. The challenge of the con- solidated Freshman crew had been accepted by both Harvard and Columbia, and the triple race was a certainty. Stewart was captain -of the crew, several,Shefi1 men were trying for positions and the in- terest was great. Davison, C. B. Berger and Goetchius were winners in the Freshman games at the Field 3 and Carter, Franchot, Stewart.