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

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30 HISTORY OF 1916 S. . Hod, with all the dignity he could master after eleven nights on a sleeper, told her Sixteen, Pardon me, I didn't ask you your age! All of which goes to prove that a Glee Club trip is not all milk and honey for to be more explicit, whisky and sodab, and that a few of us are young in years but old in experience. It is only fair to mention at this point that Johnny VanSantvoord, Don Armour, BillDecker, Al Smith, Walt Bales, Herb Wooding and Brad Walker, also took the trip with the clubs and can vouch for the veracity of the above. At this point of our history the Sheff Society Orchestra slowed up in its tempo and subsided into Chopin 's Funeral March. The Faculty thought they had occupied the background long enough and decided to break into print-that is, they distributed printed exams for the greater part of a week. The majority of the Class foxed, fooled, blufed and otherwise circumvented the gol' durn things sufficiently to ease by with a camel is hair margin to spare, but a few of our unfortunate members lost their footing and fell off into the wide-wide, there to tempt the Fates with other instruments than Taussig or a slide rule. One of them crossed the border line into Academic, that SHEFF STUDENT COUNCIL

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. SENIOR YEAR 29 into ''all-wool-and-a-yard-wide Seniors, but we were quick to perceive the demands of the situation and meet them to the best of our ability-though not all of us wore mustaches, nor did we go to class hatless and vestless during the winter months, as Seniors are supposed to do. The more serious destinies of the Class were entrusted to the Senior Council, composed of Earle Craig, Hec Dulaney, Count Creelman, Fred Gleason, Art Bunker, Ben Story, Bob DeVecchi, Wheelock Whitney, Carl Wiedemann, Buck Freeman, Eddie Bright, Art Lacey, Bill Ryan, Gil Johnson, Leo Sullivan, and Ralph Strickland. They governed well. In less than no time the big football games loomed large on the horizon, and Theda Bara miraculously vanished from eating joint conversation. O Temporal C Mores! Silence, if ever, is golden at this point, but let it not be said that the team did not fight valiantly. 1916 Sheff was ably represented among the HY7' men in the persons of Mal Scovil, Carl Wiedemann, Emil Jacques, Chub Sheldon, Carl White, Babe Walden, Jim Sheldon, Bill Savage and Jim Higginbotham. Even the New Haven Police fail to account for the disappear- ance of the time between the Harvard game and the Christmas holidays. One or two fleeting Saturday nights at Heub's, F a movie or two, and the time had come for us to throw away our soft collars and emerge into the outer world smooth-gliding, shiny parlor snakes, ready to charm the heart of the most blase Eve who dared to cross our path. Meanwhile some perfunctory elections were polled in Byers Hall. Earle Craig, Count deZaldo, Hec Dulaney and Rufe Scott were chosen to serve on the 1916 Prom Committee, and Rufe was again honored when it came time to elect a Class Secretary. The various Class Committees were also chosen and are listed elsewhere in this volume. Except to our most intimate friends the details of our indi- vidual vacation experiences are a mystery. But they tell one on Hod Wilcox which will serve as a model in the absence of more accurate information. You know Hod sings a pretty fair tenor on the Glee Club, and so happened to be in Pittsburgh in time for what follows. It seems he was dancing with one of the dames out there, when she threw a dark glance at him from her soot-bedimmed eyes and sourly inquired of him his Class. it Deceased,

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SENIOR YEAR 31 .af 49. :Mhz 1915 VARSITY BASEBALL TEAM being the first college of his choice next to Yale. It is an ill wind, however, which blows nobody some good, and Fred Hesselmeyer didn't allow opportunity to get cold feet on the door step. At one time or another, and in various places, he conducted during Exam week no less than eighty-three tutoring classes. Each' class averaged eleven fellows 5 each fellow forked over two pieces o'eight per hour. Figure it out for yourself, we can 'tl But don 't forget to deduct Nel Graves' commission. The ordeal being over, we again turned our thoughts for the most part to the extra-curriculum, much to Prof. Abbott's chagrin. In passing let us say a Word of the Prom! Even Buck Zenner attended the Germans, that is, everyone attended the festivi- ties-at least in part-who had an Ingersoll to hock or a 1913 overcoat to use as bait for Fisheye. And let us not overlook the girls, God bless 'eml even though some of them are now treading the path of matrimony with another. The Yale Prom Girl is without exception the cutest, choicest, daintiest, loveliest little thing imaginable, she appears each year in the latest