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The Class of 1894. So might we talk of the old familiar faces. -Charles Lamb. Samuel Stokes Allen was born at Philadelphia, Feb- ruary 8, 1874. His father, Theodore M. Allen,is a retired business man. He has cousins in the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Geneva and Berlin. He traces his ancestry to the eleventh century directly and Greek and English blood are in his veins. Has renowned relatives too numerous to mention. William Boyd Allison began his fruitful career at Peosta, Iowa, july 31, 1871. His father, james H. Allison, a graduate of Wooster Academy lOhioj is a farmer and country gentleman. His paternal has held all the offices of the township in which he lives. English Scotch and Welsh blood keeps him alive. Hon. W. B. Allison, U. S. Senator from Iowa. is an uncle. Gustav Albert Andreen began life at Baileytown, Ind., March 13, 1864. His father, Andrew Andreen, a minister, is a graduate of Vexio Normal Academy. He is of good old Swedish stock with a small trace of German ancestry that emigrated from Germany sometime after the Thirty Years' War. i I I I E 'f nw X lt.:

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Dedication. Storm and sunlight in the sky Hold alternate supremacy, After the grim night is gone Gleams the laughing light of dawn, Wintry branches, bleak and bare, u Freight with bloom Spring's balmy air, And so we greet with furtive tears These records of four smiling years. From far lands and foreign shores, By devious ways, some stern to fare, Warriors we w11o mustered here, Beleaguering 'round Wisdom's doors- Stubborn doors, the needle's eye To blundering camels of our band, And swathed in densest mysteryg All knowledge tedious tomes command. Yet lustier backs for bravcr gains Have bucked and broken learning's line, With scalpel gaze and lancet brains Ripped deftly thro' the bitter rhineg That wards for grasp and gorge divine The fabled fruit of Paradise, Soaring far sun-wards, eaglewise, Thro' esoteric subtleties. Still some have loitered in the rear Inglorious, and shall not be near To share the triumph, loud and large, Gracing our honorable discharge. And some have fallen-nay, farewell, Farewell, old friends, and let it tell, Tho' silent and irrevocable, No less love past forgetfulness. O, noble causc we labored in! O, kind young hearts, and keen to win Fame's pinnacle! What tho' we fail ? Let cynic earthlings rave and rail 5 What boots it so we still may cry With Cato, in our consciousness, Sempronius, we'1l deserve success! Shall we not flaunt their mockery? Ye minstrels, whose soft-twanging lyre, O'er wood, and stone, and savage breast Have wrought the web of your desire, My song should vaunt Ya1e's friendship higher Had I but learned your wizard lore. Are ac Vale, '94. RICHARD WOILTEIINK TON

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YALE '94 CLASS BOOK. Thomas Shaw Arbuthnot has spent most of his life in Pittsburgh, Pa., but was born at Allegheny, Feb- ruary 18, I87I, and has since learned to spiel the banjo and baseball. 'His father's name is Charles Arbuthnot, who is a wholesale dry goods merchant. Tommy never traced his ancestors, but tells us that good Scotch-Irish blood is present in his veins. Lack of time forbids him giving us an itemized list of his distinguished relatives. Raymond Holbrook Arnot began to grow at San Francisco, Cal, September 29, 1873, and has spent a good part of his life looking at the Pacific. N. D. Arnot, lawyer, University of California '69, is his father. He doesn't trace his ancestry, but mentions the fact that he has several relatives graduates of Wellesley, Vassar and Harvard. f William Bacon Bailey, following a natural prefer- ence, was born at Springfield, Mass., May 7, I873, where he could easily get to Hamden Park in time to hold a seat. His father, William L. Bailey, is a farmer. English and Scotch blood in about equal proportion travels in his veins. Old Mother Bailey, who tore up her petticoat to make wadding for a cannon during the Revolutionary War, is mentioned as a distinguished relative. Harry Samuel Bandler arrived on the scene March 23, 1873, in Brooklyn, N. Y., but has spent most of his life in Owego, N. Y., where he had a good time and, incidentally, prepared for college. His father is Robert Bandler, a merchant, and is not a college graduate. ,