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Note and Comment.

PANDEMONIUM AT YALE.

The Boston Globe prints the following account of some queer doings of Yale freshmen:

"To-night was one of the biggest nights that any freshman class of Yale University has seen for many years. It is well understood that on Washington's birthday the freshmen usually begin to carry huge canes, called bangers. They had a holiday to-day in the college on the distinct understanding that there was to be no rush. A day or two ago, a committee went to Horace Wall, the proprietor of the New Haven Opera House, and desired his co-operation to put up a flag belonging to the class of '89. They also purchased nearly 200 seats in the front row of the opera house. Mr. Wall accepted the latter, but declined the former proposition as he had been warned by Fire Marshal Kennedy that such an exhibition of the flag would have the same effect on the sophomore class as the showing of a red flag to an enraged bull, so he told them: "No flags, boys, if you please." The boys consented. One of the freshmen then obtained employment as a supe from Lizzie Evans company, which to-night played "Sea Sands." He had the flag of Sheff. '89 concealed about his person. Just toward the middle of the first act a boat crossed the stage as a part of the play. Two persons are in this boat, and when it came in full view of the audience, there was the obnoxious flag mounted in the stern of the boat. Then pandemonium broke loose with a vengeance.

The freshmen rose en masse and shouted like wild Indians. They waved their hats and pounded with their "bangers" until the rest of the audience became timid. The flag remained in full view of the audience for about ten minutes. But this could not last long. The sophomores began to get wind of the affair and they came from all directions and tried to move on the flag. But the faithful supe had secured the flag and made himself very scarce. The sophs could not approach through the barricade on the front seats. They tried to get in at the rear and at the side doors of the stage, but they met freshmen at every point. The freshmen were too numerous, and the sophomores were forced to swallow their indignation and endure their defeat like men. Then the freshmen, at the conclusion of the performance, marched up Chapel street 200 strong, defying the Sheff. juniors and Academy sophomores. But the matter will not end here. The sophomores and the Sheff. juniors will find some way, they declare, to rebuke the audacity of the freshmen of both Sheff, and the Academy department.

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