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

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10 ECHO OR THE SENECA. «“0js-!-i!jm-!:iiRi0F¥|s.’ The last scene has come. We walk on. the heights, hand in hand, with Bntlor and Berkeley as familiar friends. French we speak not, “ after the seolo of Stratford at-te Bowo” but ‘‘Fronseh.of Parys” “fill fairo and fetysly.” -Bowden and the Bard of Avon we account as naught, for well can we scan and woll indite (in examination). De Iterum Natum, oiu- course in history and constitutional law will not quite unfit us to sup at last with Plato—wore pardons plentiful this year, wc would add, to feed o' him even till he gorge «, but we for- bear. For this brief retrospect we have made wc crave indulgence. We Salute the readers of the Bcjho for the last time. Like Prospero, shortly we’ll, break our stall and. drown our.book. Our college life lias been pleasant. Its memory will not pass from us. The years may come and go, but we aro suro that, in the hereafter, only tender thoughts will stir our hearts when we think of Hobart, her Presi- dent, her Faculty, and those we have known within her honored walls. Itromains but to speak the parting word: Salvete! Valete! Srvknty-Nsne.

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HO HO OF TUE SEN.KCA. ■0 Editotoih-’79 «“W K+wa KSpaP ’ » 3 FKTCSfOTEN wc lived laborious days. We strove to illus- trate the first half of the maxim, a good beginning makes easy a good ending. We never shrank from a Greek ov Lath root, an algebraic formula, a geometric theorem, a rhetorical trope, or a vocal element. All aglow with passionate longing to see arise within us the stately structure of academic culture, wc spared no pains to lay a broad and. dee}) foundation. 4“1P 9PK W6)UeD.’’ ■ A Sophomores a change carae o’er us. We were children no longer. We were in the world, - yet scarcely of it. We listened to the voice of Calculus , but its soft, persuasive utterances found no echo io our souls. Our thoughts were far away. The natural guar- dians of ’80. we meditated only upon local topography, upon hydro- graphy and. barb(e)rism. We would acquit ourselves according to the traditions of the world of letters in whicli we live, and we did. The meekness and refinement of ’80 is our lasting monument. • “‘©M 0K tS pK D£ WpS ' A new year broke and wo put away the things of lower Jifc. But no sooner had the TTobarlian course of p hpftuas taken a Arm hold of us than we sent up a cry de- profmidi-8. And the bitterness of that cry deepened as we passed forward into the two logics, were £ 1 favoredJ; with an ‘‘'easy ” examination in English, and made the acquaintance of the language and literature of the Teutonic fatherland. Though wearing the crown in Greek, in Latin we became tacUiom(forgive us,, husband of the daughter of Julius Agricola), As the year began to w;vne. and we began to see the stars (in the observatory), our marks dec! i i icd and fell i Sic tram i I■ glor i a m ui id i.

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ECHO OF THE SENECA, 12 . .. ’S0.3N- HE Oass of ’80, in attaining the rank of Juniors, experience always brings a feeling, of satisfaction. Another year of college life has passed, and with it much of the drudgery and weariness of lower .class cars. As we look hack upon the past two years, many pleasant occa- sions come to our memory, The historic customs of . the college have boon, observed by us with due regard. We remember with pleasure that as Sophomores wo celebrated the “Crematio Calculi,” whieh had been allowed to become a thing of the past; and with the proper solemnities we bade adieu to many “items” of our Soph- omore experience. As Juniors we have always striven to improvo upon the past. To us belongs the honor of restoring to the college one of the advan- tages of former years—the “ Hcrmeati Literary Society.” From the Hermean much benefit has already been derived, and with our added numbers and increasing enthusiasm, we expect still, greater improvement will be reached. While for the class of '80 wo claim the honor of the revival of the Hermean, wc gladly accord to the under classmen the erodit which is due for their effective help in numbers and talent. Would that wo might say as much for ’79, but alas! the labor expended by them upon the “ Echo” of last year so impaired their mental powers and diminished thoir numbers that no courage remained to cope with vigorous ’80. They have chosen to havo no part or lot in this mat- ter, for the spirit, of enterprise has perished from among them. The studies of this year open more widely the regions of thought and reason, and furnish a new interest in student lifo. We realize the change from lower to upper classmen, and find upon the whole both pleasure and regret. Pleasure, because advancement “Sie non sit nobis.