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

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8 ' ECHO OF THE SENECA, inns, who, unable to get a College Degree any other way, elects the Scientific Course. The Trustees also ordered the publication of a Triennial Catalogue in Latin, containing the names ami a short sketch of all graduates upon whom degrees or- honors.have been con- V. f erred since the foundation of the College. Til is includes all the degrees conferred by the old Medical College; As straws show the direction of the wind, so these Tacts, unimportant perhaps in them- selves, serve to indicate the firm determination of the Faculty and Board of Trustees to place Hobart in the foremost, ranlc of A merican s Colleges. And that they may accomplish all th $ir designs is the sincere hope of us' all. Then added years shall bring but- fresh honors with which to wreathe the brows of the dear old Alma Mater.

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ECHO OF THE SENECA. 7 Sophs have done their duty by- the Freshmen this year, or at least they tried to, which of course amounts to the same thing. After the usual time spent in preliminary having, a day was appointed for the grand cane-rush. The • twenty-five Freshmen, by dint- of great exertions, succeeded In overpowering the six Sophomores, and after a fierce and sanguinary fight of about- two hours’ duration, they gained the victory. The grief and rage of the Sophomores knew'no bounds, and One of them was so angry that, that ho ——well, never mind what ho did Some time ago there were vague rumors of mid- night ambushes, of. kidnapped Freshmen, and of victims toiling all night at the oar and employing the next day in walking ’round the foot of the lake. Anxious to procure particulars, wo delicately inter- rogated several Freshmen, but each one stoutly denied that he had taken the voyage. Doubtless the Sophomores could “ a tale unfold,” but with a praiseworthy regard for our feelings they have refrained. There are a few facts which may prove interesting to the friends and Alumni of the College, and that serve to show that at. least we are moving and that not with a retrograde motion. We have a boat house and a navy organization, but the boat house contains no boats and tho organization exists—on paper. Even if we had boats, there has been hitherto no suitable place for a crew to train in during the winter months. This state of things is now to be remedied. At the semi-aumial meeting of the Hoard of Trustees, it was resolved to build aud fully equip a gymnasium, and in a few months tho resolu- tion will become a reality. The Trustees also resolved to build at the same time a chemical laboratory for the use of the students These are indeed news which the Editors fool it a privilege to com- municate. An oilier important matter engaged the attention of the Trustees. For some years past tho College has boon accustomed to give the Degree of Bachelor of Science to all those students who successfully pursued tho present so-called Scientific Course. Here- after any such student will receive simply an English Diploma, and the Degree of Bachelor of Science will not be conferred until the College has a Scienti he Course more worthy of the name. This should be a matter for congratulation among tho Alumni, who may now rest assured that their ranks will' be swelled by uo lazy ignore

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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.