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

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CLASS DAY COMMITTEE GLASS BOOK COMMITTEE

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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

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34 HISTORY OF 1916 S. fired. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren'tefor the automatic part of the thing, as it is, a man has no chance for argument whatsoever. Along about the end of winter, which, by the way, was a bear- cat for these parts, six of our number sought fame through the medium of the police court. Fiercely snowballing each other on Prospect Street, they were apprehended by one of New Haven's finest and ignominiously haled before the judge. As 1915 UNIVERSITY CREW it was they were all engineers, and, after finding a flaw in the legal proceedings, secured their release. This is merely mentioned in order to bear out the Academic opinion of Sheff. A great many more incidents occur to the writer which might be included in this history, such as the origin of How About Notln, the advent of the Robinson Crusoe, Jr., Company, etc., but Time and the Class Book Committee wait for no man and we must needs draw to an end. Before concluding, however, this opportunity is taken to express the extreme sorrow we felt when three eminent Yale men passed away during our last year in New Haven. The memories