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

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10 HISTORY OF 1916 S. sight of these horrors so affected the Gerard, that a well-known campus character fell through the skylight into the arms of the enemy. But the desperate ruffians met defeat at the Hart, where Bull Painter resorted to violence, and were a total loss at 82 Wall, where a large person, known as Scovil, was reported to have fainted several times-with his right. The year can be said to have really begun October 7th, when Jacobs and Bradley made second violin on the Orchestra. About this time also, the I-Iighwall was raided by ten gallant omcers in search for one Woodruff, who had emptied upon one of their number a pail of slops prepared for Leo. ,Nobody found at home. CNO Pun.j Woodruff, however, incurred the disappro- bation of the entire Olass, as Leo passed directly afterwards. It was at this time, also, that Bottle Night, spreading from the slums of Academic, caused the near-martyrdom of Jerry. An attempt was made to burn the bridge, but spies from the railroad company spread horrid rumors of faculty action, and the upris- ing failed. During these troubled times, Wall Street and the adjoining counties became aware that a large man with a pene- trating voice lived on the second floor of the Highwall, and that somebody with a southern accent, and long-distance lungs was rooming at Olarke's. On October 22nd, the first real Class assembly was held at the free White Slave lecture of that date. On this same day, too, Mr. Arthur Marvin, the Gloomy Registrar, printed the first of his series of ultimatums to the effect that it would be simply impossible to get cuts on any other day than Tuesday. This gentleman is probably best known as the founder of The Chair For The Explanation, Investigation, and Scientific Comprehen- sion of the New Out System. About this time the oldest college daily chilled our blood by printing, worded like a Riker's poison label, the rushing rules. For the first time we realized that it would not be necessary for us to talk to upper classmen. A fake fire alarm was sent in in celebration! The Class had a remarkably good showing in all activities. Sheldon was captaining the Freshman Football Team, and Rob- ins the Soccer Team. In the Fall Regatta, Meyer, ably assisted by Stovall, Noble and Quinn, stroked the first Freshman boat to victory. The first Sheff boat, under Hal Tearse, unfortunately forgot to pull in the anchor or something, and lost to Academic

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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

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' FRESHMAN YEAR ll by a slight lead. Karl Betts and Bill Easton on the gridiron were giving Jones a chronic expression of prosperity, while on the track, Coachman, Brown and Bill Preston were storing new medals in their medal bins. I must not fail to record the greatest of all Freshman activi- ties, that is, the rough stuff at the Hart. The Hart dwellers were as ine a bunch of rounders as ever rode in a patrol wagon. Sometimes Doc Lathrop would throw Keeley's bureau out the FRESHMAN FOOTBALL TEAM window, and sometimes MacMillin would throw Doc Lathrop off the roof. More often, Larry Arnold, collaborating with Bull Painter, would explode gun cotton under Ward Lent's door sill. Who can forget the night when the latter shot six forty-fours through Ward's door? Or when, later in the evening, he com- pletely demolished, with one well-thrown water bottle, the entire window? That's what they did with water bottles at the Hart. The mad, mad wags! At about this place in the Class history, it is usually the custom to ring in a dry story. I might mention the time that Lysle and King Parker went to the Taft, and King had no money. How-