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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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CLASS BOOK 1888 S. S. S. LE U 1 ERSITY COMPILED BY E. S. MOORE. F. T. PARLIN. MORGAN WALCOTT. MAY, '1 888. NEW HAVEN. CONN Pmom LEE Ga Co., Pvnmsllnns, Pmwrnns .um Booxnusmms 1888.

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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