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

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TEN BEERS IN .TAIL 467 actually Wants to give pleasure to his companions. It is difficult to imagine so depraved a character. The minds of college students are shockingly unstable. They frequently neglect their work to go to the Hmoviesl' as these degrading exhibitions are called. I have actually seen students spring up utterly neglectful of the fascinations of Taussig or Thermo Dynamics, to see a girl pass by the window. Think of it! To Waste time looking at an ordinary human girl when one might be learning that two differential equations have in common a number of integral curves which are circles, and an infinite number of integral curves of both differential equa- tions touch these circles at two points. O tempora, O mores, O mercy! This unstableness which is so characteristic of their minds is also a marked feature of their outer mien. They dress fashionably. Many have sunk to such depths that they appear in checked vests. It is a well-known fact that no one can be truly good or earnest who wears a checked vest. The author of this book never Wears a checked vest. They have a subtle undermining induence on the character. Many an unsuspect- ing youth has donned one little realizing that one day it would lead him to the degradation of wearing silk shirts and green hats. C45 A good teacher is a great man. The author of this book is a good teacher. That is Why he left Yale. I-Ie Was too good. Egiw HW, HAw,HAw! A??E-: ' ef ,few gi' Qi r 3.- ,f 6' if ,Q MN A-. . .et ' - sf 4 We 2 ' if 5' is ' fl ' w i t 1 if .. me because hc got an A in Railway Transportation

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E il A 3 ? as he an C r umctmmumescttli than S sm, 5, GGEQE ec Q if '3 Taj E 5 MM. 00 fy ' M ar e a 2 Q7 is - T M5 '.n.AimuMmiiNcef. ,wt INSANITY C15 There are tvvo distinct kinds of insane persons-college undergraduates and those who write plays on college morals. ' C25 That writers of college morality plays are insane, needs no substantiation. If you do not believe me, read my play, The Ice Cart, published by the Saffron Publishing Company at 515150. Itls Well Worth the money and I could use the 391.50 very Well. C35 College students are also very insane. Oh, frightfully so. Got any tobacco? says one to another. Could any better evidence of insanity be desired? Just imagine asking a man Whether he has any tobacco. No true Christian gentlemen should ask for tobacco. He should steal his tobacco and retain his self-respect. Again a student Will ask a classmate, Anything good down at Poli's this Week. Raving crazy! Pause to consider the mind of a man who will ask Whether Poli 's is any good. Students have even been known to say Come along down to Heub's and have a drink on me. This is a vvell-known symptom of the worst kind of insanity in which the patient

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468 HISTORY OF 1916 S. Raphael was a pretty good painter in his way but he was not a great man. I-Ie never wrote a great soul stirring Quiiproducedj play. All he ever did was to paint the Sistine Madonna. Pooh! C53 Matter has three forms-gaseous, liquid and solid. A gas has no fixed shape. A solid is fixed. All this has really nothing to do with the subject of this book but it ills up space and shows that the author knows all about physics. He can also write plays. DISRESPECT Foa ScHoLARsH1P C55 The boy who, after Christmas vacation, believes that he came to Yale to study is the laughing stock of his class. Many a time I have seen a jovial crowd of students gather about a man and laugh uproariously for several hours at him because he got an A in Railway Transportation. They scorn the boys who do well in their studies. A Yale man will walk two or three blocks any day to scorn a Phi Beta Kappa man. Indeed, many men have refused elections to this society on account of the opprobrium which goes with it. UD This lack of interest in studies is not always due to natural indolence. It is very often the result of excessive indulgence in ice cream soda. Many students are so in the clutches of this vicious habit that their minds refuse to work except when under the iniiuence of chocolate sundaes. I have seen students of astronomy who had to resort to the use of Malted Milk before they could even determine the solar parallax. These noxious drugs stupify both mind and body. It is a common sight to see even youthful Freshmen rolling in the gutters while under the influence of this habit and their fellow students, instead of trying to lead them from the depths to which they have fallen, sneer cynically and leave them to their fate. Is it