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

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I'A'ho of the Seneca. 11 if upon the Campus, is yet free from the lingering dread which characterized it a year ago. As Sophomores we begin to appreciate our advantages and to understand what College life means. We are oppressed no longer by the fear of approaching examinations which like '• Black Care is never absent from the Freshman. Having learned that most important thing how to study intelligently, what was formerly a task has now become a pleasure. Let us not however be carried away by the proud dignity of our position. Let us not be boastful, but rather feel that these moments ol self culture are golden moments, which must be improved, and lliai our rank hereafter among men depends in a large degree upon the use which we make of our time while in College. So. with hearts full of determination to make the best of our op- portunities, and courage to grapple with the duties of the present year, undaunted by any obstacle when difficulties arise, and we leel almost disheartened, let us say with the brave Teucer: Cras ingens iterabimus aequor. Seventy-Nine.

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JO Kvho of !h • Snu-rtt, EDITORIAL 79. other year has passed. G.r A ■ Once more '79 makes her ap. pearance in the classic columns of the ICc110, and as Sophomores her members find themselves enrolled in Jhe College Catalogue. 'I'he second year of our College course, with all its duties and responsibilities, lies before us. Al- ready, however, have we become accustomed to our position, and our new dignity sits easily upon us. As we come back to Hobart's familiar halls, we sadly miss the faces of three of our number to whom our heart's best wishes are extended. May their course of study, though pursued elsewhere, be as thorough and as intellectual as Hobart ever extends to her sons. May time gracefully and prosperously carry them from height to height of earth's pinnacles ot fame, and may the days they spent with us be not the least among the pleasant memories of life. The class of ’79 has always been distinguished, and always hopes to be, by the warm personal friendship of her members. They are firmly bound together by a three-fold chain of honor, truth and love, which, growing brighter day by day, will survive Time's cor- roding touches, and remain a joy to all eternity. To the lower class we extend a cordial welcome to the “time honored walls of Hobart. As Freshmen, they have in the main conducted themselves with becoming modesty'. We are confident that any little evidences of greenness peculiar to Freshmen, will soon disappear under the refining influences which here surround them. As a large portion of our College course has passed, we may safely congratulate ourselves upon having discharged our share of College duties, whether physical or mental, on the base-ball field or in the class-room, thoroughly and well. So far we have made ample advancement. Text book after text book has fallen low at our feet. Mathematics has for us no longer any terror. We even enter the Greek recitation room with a step which, although not so elastic as

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12 I'h hrj of Ih‘‘ ,S'rurrn. EDITORIAL ’80. “Thus fur our fortune keeps an onward course And we are blessed with wreaLhs of victory.” ■?; he present Freshman class entered upon the arena of College life a band of sixteen, and, although two have fallen from the high state to which they had attained, it rj st.II marches on with closed ranks. The class of ’79Stood round with dire awe and reverence depicted on every countenance, as the class of '80 made its debut on the first scenes of College life. Sad it was to see their additional dismay, as gazing-upon one after another of that solid phalanx, the pride and strength of Hobart's coming years,— ' All parts resound with tumults, plaints, and tears, And grizzly death in sundry shapes appears.” To such extent did this at length proceed, that they decided humbly to beseech the President to serve an injunction on the Freshmen for intimidation. Our pugilistic and physical attainments have been no more marked than our application to the pursuits of learning, or the un- feigned astonishment of the several Professors, as they noted our surprising proficiency in the acquisition of knowledge, in math- ematics, in the Greek, Latin and English Language and Literature. Other successes we might name, but our modesty prevents front proceeding further. Our only desire is to be as successful in the future as hitherto, while we bid our readers Vale pro tempore.