1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

534 THE SCROLLexhausting .the visible supply of English in the graduate school and hisinterpretation of the part was entirely original. The "Dean" first turnedthe introductory spotlight on Waldo Harvey Blackmer, Amherst, '13, who isone of the social incandescents of the university and who has a track recordthat Is going to give Yale the name of being a college without a speed limit.Waldo spoke on the subject, "G; Washington as I knew him", and he didthe thing so well, you know, that when he got through, George was elected anhonorary member of the Yale Alumni Club of Phis.Ray Moody Moose, Southwestern, '12, was the next speaker. The fact thathe is a scholarship man is a lot to his credit but he has the additional distinctionof having lived in Divinity Hall for three months without havingonce appeared in the New Haven police court. Ray,, wbo is later goinginto medical school, dissected the topic, "Philings", ahd" though his voicewas a bit raspy he sure did carve that topic with skill and aplomb. {Take alook at that last word. Editor. We think It fits all right, but we wantthe sterling stamp of genius impressed on this story).Curtis Titus Franklin, Lehigh, came next, and the inlaid floor of theHofbrau trembled as. this gridiron warrior who has fit and bled for Yale,as G, W. is said to have done for his country, arose and bowed acknowledgmentto the remark that he was to speak on, "It's a Way Phis Have at OldLehigh", and we might say that Patrick Henry never done better. Thesmoky rafters rang with his eloquence. The leafy fronds of the modest fernstrembled as he spoke. Tears trickled down the sides of the big stone steinsused as receptacles for ice water. Pegasus walked with a limp before C,Titus got through.And then arose Robert Donald Lorenz, Dickinson, '11, now one of themost popular men in the Yale law school and one whose genius is soongoing to startle Professor William Taft Into knowing who will be presidentin 1923. Don sang an ode which was written by himself for the occasion,and if we do say it, it was one of the worst vocal outrages that we haveheard for many years. The atmosphere was fractured in three distinct placesbefore he got over it, and it was only through bribing the head waiter that thepolice were not called in.A sensation was created among the guests when Wallace Hogarth Pettijohn,Washburn, '12, the artist whose creations have made the covers of the YaleRecord famous and sought after, and whose drawings have sent a shiver ofhope and expectation through foreign and domestic art salons, soared from hisseat and took a swat at the sphere of rhetoric that made it rebound likean echo in the Alps. There was a topic assigned to him on the toast list