Yale University - Sheffield Scientific School Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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PREFACE The Class Book Committee offers this volume to 1916 S. with more or less of a sigh of relief, arising perhaps from a feeling of Work conscientiously done. The succeeding volumes to be compiled by the Secretary will be supplemented by a scrap book which has probably been distributed by this time to each member of the Class. To reinforce the request made in the scrap book the committee urges a strict compliance with the rules of the game in making the scrap book a most important item in post-graduate life. We are especially grateful to a number of persons and organizations for very kind assistance in our Work and among these We wish to thank especially the Cozwcmt, the Yale Alzmwzfi Weekly, the Shefelcl Monthly, Professor Canby, Professor Tracy, Larry Dickey and Monroe Jacobs, as Well as the Class Secretaries Bureau.

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2? 5 sis ' '24 ' was 'W gy . Oh do you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt- Who worked in the Winchester Arms? Vwfhen 1916, having successfully passed off all but fourteen of its conditions, first drifted into New Haven to take the university in hand, a number of things took place. Europe immediately went to War, the president made peace with Mexico, and the Sheff faculty passed a more stringent cut system. It is hard, of course, to see the direct connection of these events. But the fact remains that, in spite of local tutors and other inconceivable obstructions, on September 24th, 1913, the news was flashed to the Waiting continents that 1916 had actually entered the toWnL In an amazingly short period, however, the university recov- ered from the first shock, and settled into the customary routine. This routine began when large bands of unhung thugs, and mili- tant youths from New Haven High collected an unusually large crop of soft hats, which same hats preserved their craniums from being totally fractured by the invincible Kositzky later in the year. The Class showed a strange lack of preparedness in the early part of the Rush in which it lost two of the bouts, but Was amply vindicated in the third by Sheldon Who embossed a map of the country side upon the person of Babe Waldeii, now also of our little band. This defdciency in preparation was made up for later in the evening when the entire Class retired into their respective cellars, coal holes, and chimney flues, there to remain, mcognito, as we say at the Elizabethan club, until morning. An infuriated band of hazers, consisting of twelve moth-eaten Juniors, burst into the Highwall, and committed unnamed atro- cities, such as making Ted. Sykes sing. Rumor has it that the