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

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422 HISTORY OF 1916 S. taking the part of the Town in the Town and Gown Riot in the fifties in the Early 19th Century Scene, while in the Hoop Skirt Prom which follows, although not actually undertaken by any class, there is a preponderance of Sheff men. Beside these parts, in the Panel Scenes which represent the activities, curriculum and extra-curriculum, of modern Yale, Sheff has made herself most appropriately responsible for the football panels, as well as those depicting lVfarsh's Discovery of the Dinosaur, Singing on the Fence, and The Peru- vian Expeditionf' while Sheff, of course, as the oldest child of Mother Yale, allegorically represented, stands next to her in the Grand Finale which shows Yale as the mother of colleges. Sheff also has the honor of having among the men who are helping arrange the Pageant, the Chairman of the Committee on Authors, Professor Wilbur L. Cross, the Editor of The Pageant Book, Professor George H. Nettleton, and the Assistant Director, Mr. J ack Randall Crawford, while Director Chittenden is himself describing what Sheff means to the life of the University.

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' J ' f ' ' ' 'W mx 7. i. 3 Y -' bg Y , V - rf K , 2 1 X' V' G sg mf r edgy! If J f ,..L . -P . Why the statistical blanks? VVhy should we be forced to spend our afternoons asking our roommate for a favorite poet? Wlio is interested in knowing how many bald men with false teeth there are in the Class? Are they for the use of the secret police? Does Professor Keller use them in connection with his experiments on rats ?i Or is it merely to enable the Class Secre- tary to extort dues by a threat of blackmail? Somebody ought to know. ' As far as we can figure out, the votes are partly for the satisfaction of a morbid desire on the part of every class to break into print-to startle the world by the extraordinary attributes which it claims. To others, it is an opportunity to display their native wit before the appreciative stenographers who get up these statistics. But Jack Haddock seemed to get the essence of the matter a year ago. The statistics, he said, were for no other purpose than that, in the future, we might look back upon the whims, the correct and incorrect judgments, and the foolish opinions of our college days. Wlien the sportiest man out-Sundays Billy, and the most scholarly man is in jail, this book, packed away under nine tons of junk, and dust, will silently chuckle to itself. It knows! Done Most for Yale: James R. Sheldon, Jr., 22, Woodford H. Dulaney, 22, Rufus F. Scott, Jr., 225 Arthur M. Milburn, 18, Richard M. Scovil, 12, Arthur H. Bunker, 7, Earle M. Craig, 6, Nelson M. Graves, 5, Albert D. Sturtevant, 4.