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

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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

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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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32 HISTORY OF -1916 S. creations 5 she captures our hearts and then returns from whence she came, leaving us low in spirit and lower in pocketbook. As such will the 1916 Prom Girl haunt our memories. In truth together do ye seem Like something fashioned in a dream. Clothes l7eudc1 s Roundelay. For the benefit of those who will have the misfortune of being absent from our midst on Class Day, be it known that Jimmie Lysle will deliver the History, Bill Keeley the Prophecy, and Skinney Wheeler the Oration. Jimmie, having been voted the best-dressed man in the Class, will no doubt appear somewhat odd to the visitors, but clothes do not necessarily make the man, which is some consolation. And right here let me say that if any of you fellers intend to bring your sweethearts up here for this here commencement, keep your eyes on Bill when he's spouting that Prophecy. Bill's one of these oem, vidi, vici cusses when it comes to good looks. Skinney will supply the brains of the occasion. Some mention should be made of the Shay? Monthly as we hastily pass over a few of the noteworthy things which happened before graduation. Notwithstanding the fact that the Monthly is our official Shefftown publication, its name has been sullied with scandal. The writer hesitated a long while before men- tioning this, but, being a thorough believer in truth at any price, he is now determined to flaunt before the public eye the fact that our periodicalihas taken unto itselfea female con- tributor. The identity of ithe lady is veiled with secrecy, but the editors are under constant observation. Shortly after the mid-year exams, the Faculty again came out of hiding and, without consulting us about the matter, put in force a new set of scholastic rules and regulations. They are as complicated as a Record joke, only they lack the redeeming feature of an illustration. We imagine the illustrations are being reserved for the Senior Class next year. As far as anyone has been able to make out, the combination is something like this: you take the number of classes you have on the top floor of Winchester each week, add your age to that, subtract twenty- three, multiply by your room number, and if your general aver- age is less than the result, you consider yourself automatically