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F RESHMAN YEAR 1. -s Frank Lackey to the captaincy of the 1926 Basketmen and the winning of the championship by the Puck-and-Sticksters. In literary circles there was the appear- ance of The Tonner! Bzm, a bulletin plastered on the board between Durfee and Wright dealing with local items with studied nonchalance, and 'Tlze Sazfwday Evening Perf. This latter sheet was surreptitiously thrust beneath our doors as we slept and was one of those radical things. February 26 will go down in the history of Yale College. On that day there appeared in the N ctw the epoch-making com- by bg p g n m munication in re the Bronze Bulldog. A gradu- R N E Rte of Yale College, in full possession of his senses and in good faith, proposed to erect a bronze bulldog 'gin some suitable spot on the campus as a tangible symbol of the old fight spiritl A bronze bulldog! Shades of Gundeliinger and the Rover Boys! Strangely enough the gentle- man's offer was allowed to lie fallow. Then came dissension in editorial circles. In a communication to the O. C. D., B. M. Chernoff severed his connection with the Srzlzzmlay Evening Par! due to the know-it-all tone and opinions of the editor. Green as your department was, he seemed to detect a faint whiff of the aroma of now-you-stop-or-I-won't-play. And on February 27 the football boys went back to workg Mr. Jones evidently thought that a couple of months was too long a vacation anyway and that the lads had better don the moleskins. Of course the ground was covered with snow and it was a bit cold, but Slwwgfj Pfoylgjg Early. you could have just as much fun in the cage. That man Davenport, Senior brother of Poet John, stirred the academic stew to the boiling point in that most excellent of museum pieces-the Lit. V aguely we wondered what it was all about. President Emeritus Hadley addressed us in Battell Chapel, giving us erudite, classic, Aristotelian advice-but to what pur- pose? Two days later the storm burst and we revolted against Student Beebe's pet aversion-Commons. A glorious burst of plate-throwing, yelling insurrection- which ended in our being assessed fifty cents per man for broken crockery. Truly an ignominious end to our young ideals. Student Beebe was not to be put down, however, by such means and a few days later the N ctw carried a communication of his denouncing in stentorian tones and in hiencken-like phrases an opus of Upton Sinclair's entitled The Goose Step. Mr. Sinclair replied in good-humored ridicule, but for some unexplained reason Student Beebe neglected to pick up the gage de aofzzbut. Scout Rowell had his play produced by the Playcraftsmen. This brain child of our classmate was entitled Words and Johnny Berdan 21

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THE CLASS OF NINETEEN TWENTY-SIX r 4' Then came the Christmas vacation and we fled to the North and to the South with our suit cases carefully plastered with Yale labels. The hrst announcement of interest to the Class of 1926 on the return from the hinterland was the news that Popular Potts had been elected captain of the Eli Yearling Puck Chasers. In :esthetic circles there was the appearance of the short- lived Eljizzz, the performance in Sprague Hall of The Beggar's Opera, one of the most interesting and enjoyable events of this department's college life, and Walter Hampden's sojourn at the Shubert, during which time he played 'cHam- let, Macbeth, The Servant in the House, and The Merchant of Venice. Not only did this extraordinary man do all this in one week, but he played 'iMac- bethl' on Saturday at the matinee and Hamlet that night! As you read this, brother Elks, this is the point to start the argument as to whether his Hamlet is as good or better than John Barrymore's. Correct answer in a plain Wrapper on the receipt of five dollars to cover cost of postage. At this point, also, the colyum was taken from the hands of its parthenogenetic parent, H. Hartman, and was tenderly re- ceived by Norman Jaffray. A short interruption in the social days and ways of Yale then took place-in the form of mid-years. El! Tearlirzrj Park' C lm,vcr.r. Rosenbaumls and Roxbuflfs lnstl' i A tutions for the advancement of learning took on all the signs of a prosperous year. VVhen the smoke had cleared away it was found that our number had been seriously depleted. It seemed to be the almost unanimous opinion of the remnant that the old flag should never touch the ground-so we plunged on-on-on-period. The College then betook themselves to the Prom and we, denied the privileges of so participating, looked enviously upon them. The Dramat fearlessly attacked Singe's Playboy of the Western World and carrie off victorious, thanks to the aid of Oarsman Whitney and Actor Hoylstratt. The Prom itself was honored by the presence of Dancer Ula Sharon in spite of the attempts of The New fork 'Tribune to prevent same. VVe countered with the Freshman Ball on February 6. Your correspondent was unable to attend, but without doubt it was an important affair. Our Discipline Committee next made its appearance. The people's choice con- sisted of Dan Allen, Farmer Butterworth, Hoddy Cole, Modest Cottle, Popular Potts, Bill Riley, and Editor Stoddard. Athletic events included the election of 20

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THE CLASS OF NINETEEN TWENTY-SIX .5 1. expended two columns of the same in his review of it, complaining that he could not ascertain what it was all about. That a member of 1926 could write and have produced a play that the erudite and much traveled Herr Berdan could not under- stand was certainly a feather in our caps. Scout Rowell should go far. Maybe by Senior year he ought to be almost good enough to run the colyum in the News or something. Further news in dramatic circles was that the intrepid Dramat had boldly announced that it would produce c'K,ing Lear, a musi- cal comedy by VVilliam Shakespeare, I think. Having thoroughly covered this play in Freshman English, we were in an excel- lent position to appreciate the diliiculties in staging that the Dramat faced and some of us were even so daring as to shake knowing heads and to hazard the opinion that we didn't think they could get away with it. There was even some talk of biting off more than you could chew. Doubtless to warm up for the task, the Dramat gave a reading of the Book of Job in Dwight Hall-though they may have been merely trying to compete with Ted Lewis, who was playing in the Greenwich Village F ollies at the Shubert that week. Speaking of the latter, this department would like to go on record as heartily recommending the same to all lovers of good clean music. Artist Hill created a mild furore at this point by decorating the virgin panes of his window in Haughton with auto- mobile tape to imitate the leaded glass of Harkness. When interviewed by a News heeler he announced that it was a very expensive alloy of aluminum and tin imported from Germany for the purpose. The heeler believed and published the results of this investiga- tion. Upperclassrnen came and stared. There were 1HuttCI'S of VVell, that's going petty far, kinda arty, I think, e maybe, and the like. Another source Typjmj P055-, of excitement was the first audition of the Freshman Quartet, composed of Explorer Frissell, Actor Hoysrant, Ad- mirable Cutler, and Ford Cooper. The spirit of goodfellowship was among them if not towards them, and these boys were wont to implore the Freshman to wake Professor. 22