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9 Class Book. 11 JUNIOR YEAR. YVhen we canie back in the fall of '86, who among us could be made to believe he had ever been a miserable freshman? Did not we feel an infinite abyss separating us from the time when we had been carried to the Homestead, and perhaps even to the tobacco embued halls of our Teutonic friend, Herr Otto? But one thing we remembered-we had been hazed, and so we mildly and neatly proceeded to get revenge upon '89, They will, no doubt, even yet tell some tales of how we taught the first rudiments of college life at the rush on Orange street. At the class meeting Stewart was elected president, Shigemi, vice-president, and Tuttle, secretary. This year we were both '88 in name and number. 'A very small number as compared with '87 and '89 had been taken from our ranks, and, after one year's experience, it is hard to drop a Sheff. man. This fall our crew won its first race, and again in the spring we crossed in the lead, breaking the college record for the two- mile inter-class races. In the first of these, iVilcox, Franchot, Garter and Stewart rowedg and in the second, iVilcox, Carter, XV. Mason and Davison were those who shed honor on their class nu- merals. Bull and Carter were on the team which was sent to Princeton to play foot ball. After much squabbling about the place were the game was to be played, Yale claiming the Polo grounds and Princeton the mud fiats upon which her affections are centered, it was at last determined to go wherever it was neces- sary in order to bring back the title of champion to New Haven. The result of this you all know well. The game was won by 4 to Og but we did not get the title so coveted, for the representatives of the five clubs decided that the championship must remain where it was. In this same fall, before the events occurred which are narrated above, Dann was elected as captain of the nine. I-Ie is the first for many years who was elected to this ofiiee in his second year, and the manner in which he discharged his duties, both asa captain and a player, showed that the confidence of the University was not misplaced. - We had great difliculty this year with our German, and many of us deem it the happiest moments of our lives when we realized that we should never have another recitation in this branch of modern languages. This was the time when the engineers first made the

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10 Yale '88 On July 1 came the much-talked-of triple race between our Freshman crew and those of Columbia and Harvard. Our crew was an excellent one, by far the best of the three, but rough water .and a shaky boat ,were too much for them, and after obtaining a good lead in the first half mile, a wave broke over their boat and swamped it. Harvard, having defeated Columbia, was asked to row Yale again, and although offered a start of two lengths, she refused. Our gallant but unfortunate eight were: Stewart, stroke, -Carter, 7g Franchot, 6, Corbin, 5, Buchanan, 43 VVilcox, 35 Gill, 25 Wells, bowg Ames, cox. Thursday evening the Banjo Club gave a concert in New Lon- don, which a large number of Yale men attended. Friday morn- ing was bright and pleasant, just the day for alrace, but the water was choppy and it was postponed till 6 o'clock. It was a pretty race and a victory to be proud of. Yale's time was Q0 m. 21:13 sec., which beat the best record made by us in 1884. The celebration that night none who participated in it, will ever forget. The next day the decisive ball game was played at Hartford, and Ha1'vard's discomiiture was complete. For , In the depot at Hartford a Harvard man sat, Sighing: Harvard! O Harvard! O Harvard! And I said to him: Stranger, now what are you at, Sighing: Harvard! O Harvard! O Harvard. Is it pressure of business, Sir, I cried, Or a rather sharp pain in your little inside? With a look of distress and a moan, he replied, O Harvard! Poor Harvard! Poor Harvard! In the race at New London we thought we would win. O Harvard! Poor Harvard! Poor Harvard! But the boys from New Haven have taken us in, And beat Harvard, slow Harvard, weak Harvard. Then to Hartford we come our lost honors to save, But the Yale boys our nine a worse druhbing gaveg And now we would like to sink into our grave, And take Harvard, lost Harvard, whipped Harvard! The college. year, with its variety of work and pleasures, and its gratifying victories, was at an end. We were Juniors and pre- pared to occupy a new position in the college-world.

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12 IQIZG '88 acquaintance of their estimable professor, who, apologizing, con- ditioned, and, conditioning, apologized. I Now, we were broken up into our courses, and the character of the class was shown by nearly half taking the select cou1'se. At this time we began to know and be known mo1'e thoroughly than was possible as freshmen, and soon each man found his level and sank, or rose to it, as the case might be. After the hard and withal satisfactory struggle at Christmas, we launched forth fairly towards our senior year, for one feels himself much more in a class after one term's Work is safely behind him. The whole of us now go into more or less training, and our success is as varying as is ou1' endeavors. In February, Moore and Parlin W6l'6 elected to the senior board of' the News, C. B. Berger to,that of the Record and C. E. Curtis to that of the Courant. At the elections for the various University athletic organizations, C. B. Berger was elected vice-president of the Athletic Association, Bull a member of the Executive Com- mittee and Davison a steward, Stewart, vice-president of the navy, and Parlin Sheff. treasurer, Osborn, vice-p1'esident of the Base Ball Association, Carter, vice-president of the Foot Ball Association and Pratt vice-president of the Tennis Club. , The winter games this year were held in the Rink instead of the Gymnasium, and the change operated most beneficially. The re- sult of the contests was eminently satisfactory, and altogether the improvement upon those of our former year was most noticeable. lfVhen Easter came, as it invariably will, though in our freshman year we almost despaired, the result of hard work was that Carter and VVilcox stayed over to train with the University crew, and, of course, Dann was with the ball nine. Another of our number would also have been with it had not a severe accident disabled him from further playing for months. The spring term, that happiest period of college life, now opened to us, and we soon saw the quadrangular league dwindle intoa tri- angular oneg and though Yale had dreaded to enter such an asso- ciation, when thrown into it by circumstances, she played her part so nicely that she remained in her former position of superiority. Columbia's glory faded rapidly away, and Princeton's good start was imitated only' once, when she defeated Harvard. With our team she did not again play closely, but, as before, Fair I-1arva.rd was a foe worthy of our steel. 'When she had the opportunity to tie us, she tried so manfully to take advantage of it, that the ,best