Query: "Sheff." at Yale (1899)

[Jesse Sheidlower]

>
>    I now have another question, and I suppose Larry Horn would be the
> most likely one to be able to provide an answer: What is (or was)
> "Sheff." at Yale?
> Barry Popik, while researching "hot dog," turned up the following brief
> item:
> Feb. 18, 1899-- humor magazine _The Yale Record_, vol. 27, no. 8, p.
> 79:(title): 'The Serious Obstacle Surmounted':
>  '"Lots of men coming down to Sheff. next year, they say."
>    "Yes, they have a dog wagon there now, you know."'
>
>    Would anyone have an idea about this "Sheff."?

19th century Yale was split into two schools, "Ac." and "Sheff.",
or the Academical Department (liberal arts) and the Sheffield
Scientific School (scientists and engineers). There's a lot about
the rivalries etc. in any Yale history.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED