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

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ECHO OF THE SENECA. I 1 We welcome to our ranks this year The noble J. H. J.— May he among the honored be On that evenilit 1 day When we shall leave these classic walls To brave life's ocean broad. And follow in the noble steps Our predecessors trod. But thou who wast with us one year. And (for no fault of thine.) Wast taken from our company In the far West to pine, •• In Dies Meliora be As ours, thy motto bright, •• While life is all before thee,'' When comes chill age's night. i And if no more in this short life We meet as classmates true, Be ours to dwell in that blest home— Jerusalem the new— Where we shall hear by the Great Judge This benediction given : Blest be the tie that binds in one The Class of '77.

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ECHO OF THE SEN EC A. EDITORIAL OF 77 f'm glad I am a Sophomore. And with the Soph‘mores stand, plug hat on my forehead. A rnne within my hand : And though the Juniors are above And Fivshmen are below. We'll show them all we re up to • biz.' And mean to hoe our row. To us who came a year ago The name of ' Fresh was given : We at our work in earnest went— Hurrah for Seventy-Seven I Greek Testament low at our feet Fell like a timid boy. While with “Greek roots, as Prof. Mac. knows We fought the wars of Troy. With Latin Prof, we took a ride In “ Mood Subjunctive's car. But, unlike Icarus of old. Came down without a scar. Geometry and Algebra Arose “with terrors new, But these were vanquished at a blow, While Bain was cut in two. Farewell to thee. O, Freshman year! With all thy tasks so pleasant. We turn us now with right good will To grapple with the present : • Paley” we all by heart will learn. We’ll never smouch in “ Trior..” O f In Latin, Greek, “Bain, (2d part). We’ll still maintain our “ dig.

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r 2 ECHO or J‘HE SENECA. EDITORIAL OF '78. 7 y Tj u • .v—• hjj HE Class of Seventy-Eight has commenced its college course 3 with the resolve to make its mark, and that a high one. As vet we have only begun, and it may be too early now to pro- ’vjSi phesy as to what the result of our eflorts will be ; but rest as- sured. that when the class, which old Hobart is to send forth in '78, does break on the world, its effulgence will dazzle the eyes 0! all beholders. Thus far in our course, all has run along smoothly and quietly. The Sophomores, from some unknown motive, have allowed us to do much as we please : so there have been no disturbances in that quarter. And of course the Freshmen have had nothing to do with ringing the bell, and painting the buildings, at dead of night. Having been here now some ten weeks, most of us have ceased to speak of college as “school, and invariably call the instructors Professors. Some of us cart even smoke quite a segnr without sick- ness ; and we all have made rapid progress and improvement in the branches of learning. Keeping up this state of affairs, we intend to be a class which shall never reflect discredit on our College, hut rather bring it praise.