YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY
H. Sherrill, and Samuel H. Fisher,
Henry S. Robinson and Lewis
Welch, were requested to act for the
Class for the next reunion. It was
voted to have a meeting of the Class in
connection with the Bi-centennial. At
this meeting Mr. H. A. Smith called
attention to the publication of the
poems of Thomas Buchanan, a former
member of the Class. It is the inten-
tion to send a copy of this book of
verse to each member of the Class.
The cost ‘of publication is defrayed by
subscription. The average cost of pro-
ducing a copy of this book is two
dollars.
The Class was photographed on the
steps of Osborn Hall at the end of the
business meeting, and very shortly after.
it formed with its band on Chapel street
and went in cars to the ball game.
The Class dinner was served about
seven o’clock in the New Music Hall
on Court st. Nearly sixty-five men
were present. The meeting was in
charge of Mr. Sherrill and Mr. Welch
and the following toasts were re-
sponded to: ;
“?Neath the Elms,”
“Ten years ago I made a mock
Of filthy trades and traffics.”
Reciting on “‘General Information,”
D. M. Barstow
“Not prepared, sir.”
Collateral, and its Pursuit, C.S. King
“On the Banks of the Wabash.”
Sweethearts and Wives, George Coggill
“No matter what you do,
If your heart be true.”’
Expansion, W. D. Sawyer
“?Tis not so deep as a well, nor so
wide as a church-door; but ’t is enough,
’t will serve.”
Decennial, J. C. Griggs
“Here’s to Eighty-Nine,
There was never Class so fine!”
Dr. Barstow’s response was the fol-
lowing poem:
Hear ye the lines as I have wrote
By order of The Secretary.
Whether to criticise or quote,
Hear ye the lines as I have wrote;—
Being as how I am the pote
Of this here anniversary.
Hear ye the lines as I have wrote
By order of The Secretary.
T. S. McMahon,
Hark to the unaccustomed noise -
Of mid-day shouts, and mid-night
revels! ,
More merry than a hundred boys,
More noisy than a thousand devils!
Rent are my ears with beat of drum;
Blinded my eyes with bonfires burn-
ing.
What? Can it be decennial’s come,
And Eighty-Nine’s again returning?
It is, it is!)-—-Welcome with cheers,
This day for which we’re long been
waiting, |
To set New Haven by the ears
And set ourselves to celebrating.
From fair Chicago’s peaceful rest,
From rock-bound Maine-coast’s
foggy weather,
From north, from south, from east,
from west,
We come to-day, all boys together.
We “lure the morning finger back
To cancel” all of ten years’ writing.
We smooth our foreheads of the track
Of work and worry, fun and fighting.
We walk again in boyhood’s path,
And morning calls us forth, to
grapple
With Greek and Latin, “Lit” and
' “Math,’—
And bow to Prexy: in the chapel.
The campus greets us with a smile,
Kind as of old, or kinder, may be;—
Once more the happy hours we wile
With marbles, tops, and “Nigger
baby.”
On Alma Mater’s spacious lap
Her sturdy sons are snugly sitting,
Nor care a continental rap
How fast the merry hours are flitting.
Our sturdy athletes lead the crews,
Our graceful striplings lead
“4 danees,
Our ready penmen, in the News,
Bring forth each day their strange
romances.
Our deacons, in the halls of Dwight,
Expound what sins a man should lay
the
for,
And, in the darksome shades of night,
Our “antis” give them things to pray
for.
Oh happy, careless times of yore!
Oh days of play, and nights of revel,
When fun was always to the fore,
And atra cura to the devil!
We liked our friends, and fought our
fights,
And drank our beer, and sang our
ditties, oS
Nor hankered for the sweet delights
Of life, and love,and—cup committees.
The shining vision fades away;
I see a row of older faces
That come, on this rewnion.day,
To greet the dear familiar places ;—
To roam the campus’ holy walks,
To feel the elm trees arching o’er us,
To hear, perhaps, some old-time talks,
And sing, perhaps, some old-time
chorus.
We’ve all begun to live our lives;
In college fields no longer grazing,—.
We've finished
knives,
And through the world our way
we're blazing,
We did not smell the battle’s smoke;
Not ours the fame of noisy warfare ;—
We stayed at home, like quiet folk,
And worked for bed, and bread, and
car-iare.
sharpening up our
We're getting on toward middle age,—
We've cut our teeth, and dropped
Our fattie,
And some have heard the heathen rage,
‘And some have heard their babies
prattle.
And some of us have lines of care,
That tell the tale of thoughts that
harry ;—
Some doughty .deed we didn’t dare,
Some merry maid we mightn’t marry.
But for to-night at least, were young.
Our old class yell, right loud you
hear it,
No quaver in the songs we've sung,
No chilling of the old-time spirit.
Let every head keep holiday!
Let every classmate pledge his
neighbour!
To-night we drink, to-night we play!—
To-morrow, back to life and labour.
And oft, in many a coming year,
May we good fellows clink our
glasses.
And when at last the time draws near
To sleep beneath the waving grasses,
The cup of darker drink we'll quaff.
With that good sand that never fails us,
And be this line our epitaph—
“A good old class of loyal Yaleses.”
_ The following is a nearly complete —
list of those attending the reunion. :
The following is a nearly complete
list of those attending the reunion:
Ames; Austin; Banks; Barnes; Bar-
stow; N. W. Bishop; Bradner; Brew-
ster; Brooks; Browning; Coggill;
Cook; Corbin; Crummey; Cullinan;
Daniels; A. H. Day,.’89 S.; Dickinson;
Ellis; Ensign; Fisher; Francke; Gavi-
gan; Gill; J. C. Griggs; R. F. Griggs;
Hull; R Huntington, Jr.; Keefe;
Kent; King; Lefler; Lucas; Luce; Mc-
Mahon; McQuaid; Matson; Merrifield;
Merrill; Moore; Mosle; Parsons; Peck;
Peres; Pinchot; Richardson; Robinson; ©
Sawyer; Scott;= Sherman; -Sherrill;
Skiltens:-it: 2A. Saiths.-S. 6G. Smite
Snipe; Stokes; Tuttle; Underhill; Wal-
lace; Waring; Welch; P. Wells; Win-
ters; “Hy HH. Withams: |
NINETY-THREE.
About eighty members attended the
business meeting of Ninety-Three held
in Ai, Osborn Hall, Tuesday noon.
Noah H. Swayne, 2d, was. re-elected
Secretary and W. E. Dwight, Roby and
Gardiner were chosen as a decennial
committee. A telegram was read from
Gallaudet, regretting his inabilitv to be
present. ;
The Class dinner was held at Har-
monie Hall immediately after the ball
game. Mr. Swayne acted. as, toast
master and the following toasts were re-
sponded to: “One side of the question—
Phe: married= man; E.cT.: Mathison:
“Our new President,” Ralph Birdsall;
“Both sides of the question,’ Henry C.
Allen. The following men were present:
‘Abbe, H. C. Allen, J. W. Allen, Ander-
son, Bacon, Barnes, Beadleston, Bird-
sall, Bixby, Bliss, Boardman, Bristol,
L. E. Brown, Brownson, Bull, Bur-
chard, Chisholm, Clark, Clarke, Cooke,
Creevey, Crouse, Day, Dickerman, Don-
nelly, Dorsey, W. E. Dwight, Eccles,
Ewing, Ficken, Field, Gatchel, Gibbs,
Hackett, Haldeman, Harmstead, Hay,
Heermance, Hickox, Higgins, F. A.
Hill, Holbrook, Hurlbert, Hutchins, A.
H. Jones, C. D. Jones, Jordan, Judson, ~
Klimpke, Lloyd, McKnight, Maffitt, A.
J. Martin, G. G. Martin, Mathison,
Merritt, Morgan, Murphy, Nadler,
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