Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Haven, Conn., May 15. Despite the appeal of President James C. Braden of the Yale Athletic Association, the Tap Day exercises will be held this afternoon, when the forty-five juniors will be elected to the senior societies on the campus in the annual picturesque exercises. Braden, who is also captain of the track team, has warned the university that he fears that the excitement of the ordeal will have such an adverse influence on the track athletes that Yale may lose the dual athletic games with Harvard on Saturday...
...Haven, Conn., May 15.--As a result of the annual Tap Day, the following men have been elected to the Senior Societies at Yale. Skull and Bones: DeForest Van Slyck, James McHenry, Joseph Weir Sargent, L. G. Adams, Daniel R. Winter, Henry R. Luce, John M. Hincks, Harry P. Davison, Theodore L. Safford, Morehead Patterson, Briton Hadden, Alfred C. Schermerhorn, Frank P. Hefflefinger, Francis T. Hobson, and David L. Ingalls...
...puzzle is how to realize the ideals of college democracy and still give men a chance to enjoy to the full precious fellowships that are possible only in limited circles. Harvard considered the matter when the Freshman dormitories were established. Yale tried to eliminate certain abuses when it made tap day a college affair and not a public exhibition. Now Princeton is dealing with this very human question, and very likely the end will be not a complete revolution but some measure of real reform. --Boston Herald...
...playing better baseball the Freshman team defeated Brookline High School, 5 to 2 on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. T. H. Enwright '18 did good work at the bat, lining out a clean three base hit in the last of the sixth inning and later scoring on Boyden's tap to second. R. M. Loring '18 pitched excellent ball, striking out nine men in eight innings...
...score was 2 to 0. Neither team was able to score in the third but each garnered one in the fourth inning. The Freshmen scored again in the sixth inning. Enwright lined the first ball pitched to deep right centre for three bases, scoring later on Boyden's tap to second. Another run followed in the seventh inning. G. A. Percy '18 singled, W. J. Murray walked, and Enwright hit to right field, scoring Percy. Brookline earned the last run on singles by Prendergast and Kendrick...