Hobart College - Echo of the Seneca Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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I'j'ftn • tf ih Vr ft ft . J miiar (This$. OFFICERS. 1‘. CHAMBERLAIN 13,.........................Pkesiuest. FEED. 1). BAHTO,..... ......................Vice President. BEO. T. FINCH...............................Secretary. BYRON ANDREWS............ ..................Treasurer. C. I CONGER,...............................Orator. E. II. BANCROFT,............................Historian. OH AS. L. ARNOLD, ..........................Poet.

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Ii» fJt fu Xr ! f f',f. (B(lirovini of '7J. T is not proposed to invite tin kind readers »f 111 Echo to pernse liorc i' a lengthened eulogy on tin class of 7.'). nrn to listen while its eon .. o quests are related. We do not presume that onrs is tlie class whose eonrse 1ms marked ;m er;i in college h’Mor : hut tin1 monotony of our course, tints f.-tr passed, we have endeavored to destroy by interspersing it with many pleasing ineidents. These incidents. although too insignificant to he related here, are till retained in memory hy every one of us. and in our retrospects of college days will often appear before itr«. Of those more important events wliieli have marked the course of so many predecessors (and which we must believe really happened, it their editorials are not fiction) ’To has hut little to tell. On one occasion, well remembered by those present one of our elass (who lias since left us) wisely said that Hobart had gathered ns from the Xorth and from I he South, from the East ami from the West. Then certainly is in this fact a proof of an high appreciation of our. Alma Mater's worth. Many have t urned from institutions of greater mime and lame to seek inst ruction witlun these truly classic walls. We hope the college recognizes this fact as an honor. It is a well known fael that 75 lias not ns vet done less Ilian others to honor the institution : and the future, we think, will he nothing'to ho ashamed of. Two years, half of our course, is past, and yet we can not light upon anything in all that time, which would 1m of interest, that 1$ not already known; but v Kniin theme to theme with serret pleasure tossed. In all the soft variety, T’m lost. Topic after topic comes lip, and the number makes choice more diffi- cult'. There are the freshman sports and sophomore labors, and “the training. for it. cannot be said the being trained. From speaking of this latter matter a fear of being impartial restrains, as we tasted only the pleasant part of it. Many of those who have had the honor of being enrolled as members of ’75, have tired of the labors and left, and our kind wishes follow them wherever they 111113 go. We bid them know that there arc many pleasing incidences of the past from which their memory is inseparable. But why say more 1 To its friends, ’75 has many redeeming features, and their esteem is ail we desire. If we have enemies, it is notour wish to change t heir opinions by debasing concession or supercilious eulogiam.

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Ilrjii t)J tin St nrff. (Editorial of 76. 1 : =•. rfi S is generally known. '70 lias reached t hat eventful stage of its class existence, Sophomore year. Soon will its class action during this • year he a thing of the past, the material for college traditions; it will show of what ‘■‘stuff’ '70 is made, and will fully establish its class character. Wo indulge in the hope that we shall not be found at all in- ferior to our predecessors in our career as k Sophs ’ judged with refer- ence either to the work of the class-room or the daily intercourse of student life. On our return to these classic, perhaps, hut certainly battered and ghost- haunted halls, we find not only our own position hut that of our fellow- students greatly changed. The new-comers have been welcomed by us with rather less than the customary ardor of Sophomore courtesy. What has occurred is acknowledged by i he class in ijuestion to have been sought by themselves, and is not likely to mar the unity of college feeling during the years to come. Tn re commencing our college tasks we have discovered to our sorrow how true is the common saying as to the difficulty of our part in the col- lege curriculum. Still with regard to the severer position of this term's work, we can already say 14 wm w.’’ and when at the close of the. year we look back upon the ground passed over by us it will doubtless all seem light. One of our number has left us, and there is none to till his place. Whe- ther received hy the arms of another Alma Mater, or seeking his fortune in business life, be is followed by the best wishes of his classmates of '7G. Having thus briefly recounted our doings as a class since we emerged from the crvsalis state, of Freshman year, it remains but to assure the hon- ored friends of Hobart that the class is still alive and 41 flourishing liken green bay tree,” and so to bid farewell until the lapse of another year enables us to greet our friends, us ourselves, the editors of this time-honor- ed Annual.