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FRESHMAN YEAR E were a singularly well-blessed Class from the beginning. Previous classes had asserted their rights as members of the great University from which we hoped to graduate in time. QThe Yale Guide to the contrary, we didn't have to wear hats, we could play marbles, roll hoops, or roller skate. Who among us did?j A week after we arrived there seemed to be some argument about the blue tie ruleg large men with larger Y's peeping coyly from be- neath carelessly draped coats insisted that at least one rule was in effect and would be enforced. Of course, they were willing to help us out by letting us have one or two regulation blue ties for the purely nominal sum of a dollar each. Your roommate will want a couple, too, won't he? How many did you buy? But all this came ages later as time went in those days. We had first to absorb some of the attitude and atmosphere of Yale. Two days of conferences with counselors and Dwight Hall and organiza- tion meetings were supposed to give us this proper spirit of Yale. Cf course, the crowning climax was the Freshman Rally in Woolsey Hall. Remember the awed feeling at the number of Y men and wise men? Professor Harper and our very own Dean Waldeii man- aged to insril in us just the right amount of spirit, ably seconded by
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I4 CLASS OF NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE S. AND E. the efforts of A1 Og- den for the Newry Ed Rotan on behalf of the student organizations, Albie Booth, athletics, Bill Abell, manager- shipsg Duke Henning, Glee Club, VanBen- schoten, debating, Brank Ql3ull Sessionsj Fulton, Dwight Hall, and Sam Williams, Student Council. After Dean Walden's speech about the College Plan came the climax among climaxes, the President himself. No, not Hoover-Angell. Guard Yale's Good Namen was his inflam- matory text. After this inspiring speech eight hundred and fifty-four new Yale men emerged as the Class of '35. Right then we were all looking forward to four years of Yale life. Even if some of us did drop by the way Qfour during that first momentous weekj, a good many have realized our wish. Our first football game, seen as undergraduates, was that with the Down-Eastersn of 'iStein Songi' fame. Yale and Albie came M1'dn1'glzl Lit Club. Jlhrough with an uninteresting 19-o score. Then, the very ng Wednesday, our own 1935 team held the Varsity to a sin- gle touchdown in an hour scrimmage. Comparative scores showed positively that the Freshmen could beat Notre Dame. It was during the same week that the Class photo- graph was taken. And who was the fellow who ran around to the opposite end of the group to get in the picture twice? Shortly after the reception given the Whiffeilpoofs in the old Oval Qi.e., the shower of penniesj the Budget Commit- tee, so encouraged, dropped NfwYf1wkuw-
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