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

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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-

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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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16 CLASS OF NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE S. AND E. letes who proved themselves worthy in many a joust. The 1935 foot- ball team showed a fine fighting spirit and, though the scores were not particularly im- pressive, there were men of merit develop- ing on the team. Ioe Iohnson, the captain, Iimmy DeAngelis, Ben Grosscup, Clare Curtin, Andy Callan, and Strat Morton showed what they could do when they de- Sfmign,gC0unC,'1, feated a highly touted Princeton team by the decisive score of 31 to 13. This victory was only partially overshad- owed by the defeat suffered at the hands of the Harvard 1935 team on the following Saturday. Captain Wolcott led his men to a preponderately successful sea- son in soccer, with four successes and only two losses. Among the F rank M e1'1'z'wcZ I . S