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

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FRESHMAN YEAR 15 Rushing, Freshman Rushing! ! It has been several minutes since I wrotethat last sentence. My pipe has gone out, and so has yours. I feel it coming over me. Stealthily I produce my poetic license, ready to show to critics, and other traffic regu- lators. Deftly I vault upon the vertebrate of the unsuspecting Pegasus. Whoa! Damn him, he 's running away! AN ELEGY IN A PLACE or Tones There are Freshmen on the sidewalks, There are Freshmen on the street, There are Freshmen sprinting madly down the drive. Can it be a moonlight marathon, A gun-men's fast retreat?- No, they 're making seven dates at forty-ive. But the hair oil, and Pornpeiian! 'Tis their morals are decayin' -Look you there, his raven eyebrows have been brushed. And the way they swear and pray in Fearful whispers is a treat. It 's the Class of nineteen sixteen being rushed. There is There is There is And the dope from San Francisco, dope from northern Maine, dope from Academic and the dean 5 scandal in the atmosphere Would make E. Craig profane. It 's enough to make the senate intervene. Is it true that Is it true that Elmo 's packing? Cloister 's backing Franklin 's scheme to blow up York because they crushed T. C.'s plan of Vernon ' s stacking Empty kegs in Sachem's lane? That 's the stuff they told when young sixteen was rushed Oh we swiped their free Fatimas, And we drank their luscious pops, And we ruined all the furniture in sight. How they listened to our parlance While we filled That's the way Oh! the rumor Oh! the bustle And the coffee 'em up with hops! we made them treat us every night! and the worry, and the hurry, and the drone of voices hushed. I And a gloom so dense and furry That it drizzled down in drops. It's no Ostermoor of roses when you 're rushed.

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FRESHMAN YEAR 17 ENvo1E Yet we learned that no connection Is an absolute protection. Aye, we learned about this world until We blushed! Now we know that in election There's no natural selection, -And we learned it when sixteen was being rushed. There! Now you know why the Class book subscription is made part of the term bill. In a few days the smoke of battle cleared away sufficiently to count the casualties. Apparently everybody had enough evi- dence against everybody else to make a general grand jury indictment inevitable, and a wholesale hanging a near proba- bility. Some of the less sophisticated actually believed these recriminations. Now we know that they keep them from year to year in the property room, like Xmas ornaments. Our second impression after the catastrophe was one of amazement at the feverish activity exhibited on every hand. Everybody had suddenly gone out for something. The Sheff M onthly in particular was overwhelmed by hordes of desperate heelers who heeled with a reckless fury as if pursued by demons-and perhaps they were. At this time, Jimmie Lysle, whose lavishly hand-drawn pictures even now pile high this desk, made the Record in more ways than one, Alec Patton was play- ing hockey, and Sheldon was wrestling, while Mac Thompson and Nel Graves were staggering past the tape of their soul- shaking News comp. The latter also crossed the great divide by making the Courant. Drew Fletcher and Alden entered the world of big Hnance by taking over the management of the Simo. The Y. M. C. A. began to forward large consignments of bullion to China, and the Industrials made preparations to teach knitting to several thousand black-handers. To cap the climax with a particularly picturesque cone of foolscap, the Freshman Musical Clubs began their dastardly rehearsals in Hopkins Grammar School, and even the faculty jumped on the band wagon by ordering a general revamping of South Sheff. And then, as quickly as it had come, the hectic enthusiasm was gone. The mid-winter monotony, beside which the South Pole is a place of revelry, had set in. The tireless athletes, of course,