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

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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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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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FRESHMAN YEAR I5 around to polish off our cash reserves. But this was not to be the end: Term bills came out. It's a good thing we had already bought our books of tickets for the football games, otherwise we might have missed seeing Yale beaten by the gentlemen from Georgia and Catfish Smith to the tune of 27-6. The first in- tersectional win for Yale was that over Chicago, and then came the Army 6-6 tie, with the tragic death of Cadet Sheridan. e It wasn't all football games in those days, though. We did do our class work -well, anyway, some of us didg we went to movies, ate oysters, and drank He instilled spiriz. beer fshhlj in the Oyster Bar. We even elected a Student Council of twenty- five members, with Keith Brown as chairman and George Vaill as secretary. We shouted Fire! from the windows of White, Haugh- ton, and Fayerweather at the passing dolls in the Oval. QOr what was the slang for girl four years ago?j Were you there the night of the near panic in one of the local movie palaces? One of our number couldn't stand the sight of the girls in the Oval in that picture, theoretically taken at Yale, and consequently let out the usual yell. The invasion by Dartmouth that next Week was awful to behold and the second half of the 33-33 game was even worse. But as al- ways fso farj the jinx did its duty and the town was saved again. About this time the word heel fthe verbj became important to us. The News held many charms for many-and how marks suffered during that time! When the shout- Builder-HPPHM ing was all over, the living were found to be Lyman Spitzer, Ben England, Bill Walcott, and Ted Hale, and to these went the prize. During the fall our Class was not lacking in high-calibered ath-