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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.

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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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8 Yale '88 and Wilcox were in the Freshman boat. Again the races were held at Lake Saltonstall, and again they were a grand success. Four crews were entered in the eight-cared shell race-University, Junior, Sophomore and Freshman. It was a pretty race, and all four crews crossed the line inside of nine seconds, '87 leading in 11m.- 3-tsl, closely followed by the University and '89. The '89 crew consisted of: 1. Wilcox, '88 S., 2. Gill, 895 3. WVe1ls, '89, 4. Buchanan, '89, 5. Mosle, '89, 6. Franchot, '88 S3 7. Carter, '88 S.g stroke and captain, Stewart, '88 S., coxswain, Ames, '89, average weight 158 lbs. The class nine which had promised so much in the fall didn't develop successfully in the spring. The material was good but the assistant captain had no control over his men and they observed no strict training. A number of practice games were played, in which we were fairly successful, but when the nine met Harvard at Cambridge, they met a disastrous defeat, losing the game by the score of eleven to four. Davol, Greer, G. Mason and Osborn took part in this game. After the game we were royally entertained by the Harvard Freshmen. In the spring athletic games, Davison was again the winner in the mile walk, and C. B. Berger, although defeated by Ludington '87, broke the Yale record in the one hundred and twenty yards hurdle race and secured a very close second. I-Ie was put back a yard for a false start, other- wise he might have won the event. The Mott Haven games followedhin a few days. Yale by the questionable decision of the referee, lost the one hundred yards' dash and the cup. O. B. Berger, Davison and Goetchius were among the entries but none of them secured a place in the finals. Stewart was on tl1e tug-of-war team and -Le Sassier was substitute. During all this time the University nine had been working hard and the struggle for the championship was half over. Yale, Har- vard and Princeton were tied for first place. Stewart and Brig- ham, two of Yale's best men, were disabled and in this crippled condition the nine went to Princeton on June 2d. Dann caught Stagg's pitching without an error, and Osborn played second base. Yale won in the last inning by the score of nine to eight. The news of the victory reached New Haven about five o'clock, and in an hour the campus was a scene of the wildest excitement. Fire crackers and bombs were exploded and repeated cheers were given. At eleven o'clock the nine arrived in New Haven, and were es- corted to the colleges by a band and four hundred students. A huge bonfire was lighted and the celebration continued till long