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

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6 EC IIO Jl ! !-iK SENECA. will be so sad and full of grief to us. When gathers around us fast amid the purple gloaming the sad, sad evening of our college days: when in th drrp and tearful draught in whirl) we drain the cup of sweet remembrances and happy days gone In . »1 boyhood s recol- lections and associations dear, we e’en must taste the dregs of bit- terness at parting, let not the hilling thought that we have accom- plished nothing, that four of the sweetest years ol our life have been thrown a wav, add one more drop to the cup already overflowing with grief. My task is done—my song hath ceased—my theme Hath died into an ECHO; The torch shall he extinguished which hath lit My midnight lamp,—and what is writ is writ— Would it were worthier. Farewell !

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ECHO OK THE SENECA. 3 altogether unrepaid, t )ne or two boats have already been promised us, and by the beginning of the next college year we fully hope to see several crews upon the lake. ['he Gymnasium is to be connected with the boat-house, and will be yen' handsomely titled up and most liberally supplied with all needful apparatus. We feel assured that immediately this great want has been supplied, its good effect will be perceptible not only physically blit intellectually. It is the old and homely saying over again : J cns sono in corpore sono.— Mental culture the offspring ol Physical, and both combining to make the perfect scholar. Then, perhaps, before long we shall have those contests of strength and skill between the classes, which are ever so beneficial to both stu- dents and college. Our base ball nine has this year been unusually successful, and indeed we may say has carried everything before it. Matched against the superior forces of Cornell and Syracuse Universities, she has still come forth victorious. While bearing with becoming modesty the honor we have thus gained, we do not feel it overbold or improbable to say, should the ensuing Spring evince such mark- ed improvement in base ball as has this season been shown, that beyond a doubt Hobart will be represented at Saratoga next Summer in the contest tor the intercollegiate championship. To the citizens of Geneva, who have with such open generosity con- tributed toward the expenses necessarily incurred throughout the season, and who have moreover at different times so kindly extend- ed their courtesies to the Nine, we would express the gratitude and esteem which is so justly due them ; and to repeat an old toast—• may our success in the field be commensurate with their liberality.” The new College Hall, in what was formerly the Medical College, which is to be used for till College exercises and gaities, will be commenced in the Spring. It remains forus but to point to the growth and welfare of the College and we are done. More eloquent than I might tell of future greatness which is hers, of the great achievements which Hobart has already performed, of glory which is due her, ot strength and wisdom which years have given and shall ever give. Ami now as we close, sadly we fall into a reverie, and muse- how as Freshmen and Sophomores we looked forward with awe and reverence to the time when it should be our duty to publish this lime-honored annual; how, now that duly is over, we are two years nearer the goal which we have hoped to reach, and yet which

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ECHO OF THE SENECA. 7 EDITORIAL OF '75. m iHE prophet with his ever ready wit again attracts our atten- tion hv his somewhat Hurried countenance: and having admit- o ted the revered personage to our sanctum we ask • What will •P the gentleman have?” In a very plaintive tone he replies: Ye men of Seventy-Five, your course is almost run : twill soon be time to pack your “Saratogas ' and tear yourselves from your dear mother’s apron strings. Hut before this, ye are permitted, through the medium of the Echo or the Seneca, to extol your many no- ble acts, to review your past life, and to speak a kind word for your Alma Mater. Tis indeed an easy thing to suggest, oh. Prophet! but how diffi- cult to do ! “ IIor opus, hie labor is . But il ’twill please you. tho’ causing sorrow to us, the sacrifice will be gladly made. When, having escaped from the name and place of school boys, we entered Mohan, a College not only remarkable for its age and standing, but also famous as the alma mater of a large number of the most eminent men that have ever adorned our country, there was an all-important era formed in our lives. From the first we had a character to sustain, and how nobly have we sustained that character ! That we have “ profited thereby is the humble wish of the prophet. Our college course may now be looked back upon by us all with mingled emotions. The retrospect of its advantages, its pleasing associations both with professors and fellow students, will never fail to inspire gratitude. There may be recollections of main mistakes, many failures, many losses of prTt ious opportunities and many false steps, which shall cause us a great deal of sell-it pioach ; but how unspeakably more would we profit by the privileges dieted if we could be p rmitu d to enjo) them again. But we are run to be cl ejected In this reflection, lor we leave be- hind us a glowing record. Our lour ears of labor ha t been but the st dpping-stom to a higher field of life, to which we are now l nding, and whie h lies t}J i.lt I U re us. 1 or nil this, O, mether !