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

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 ■e= 7, s EDITORIAL ElG T¥ OXE. Thanking the many readers of The Echo for their kind attention to our words; thanking the Faculty of Hobart for their patient, untiring labor in our behalf; with an expression of our friendship and our respect for the' other classes with whom wc have been thrown during our college days, the Class of Eighty-One turns with a sigh from the pleasant certainty of the Past to the stern uncertainty of the Future and savs to one and all its friends—slowly, regretfully, hopefully—Fahewell. 4

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EDITORIAL EIGIITY-OXE. regret. In years to come they will be to ns a dream-like picture of earlier days, a picture from which all darker shadows and all blemishes are obliter- ated by the kindly agency of intervening space. As to the more important items of contemporary college history. Since the entrance of Eighty-One into Hobart the laboratory has been built and fitted up; the Navy has been organized and partially equipped; The Hobart Heram has been called into existence and strongly established; the Gleo ' 01ub hns been organized and done efficient work; the rising enthusiasm for utblotics has culminated in the establishment of semi-annual Field Days, creditably sustained; the complete survey of Seneca Lake has been planned and partly executed by the College; the number of students lias been in- creased two hundred and fifty percent. We make no claim to all the credit of all this list; many hands and hearts beside our own have been interested in tile fulfillment of its various enterprises; of course with some of the items wo have hud nothing whatever to do; but in any and all points of un- dergraduate enterprise and endeavor we have borne our full share. The way has not always been smooth and pleasant. Probably no class that over entered Hobart had more to contend with in the way of dissension and party strife than we in the earlier years of our course. It seemed some- times as if all circumstances combined against us to prevent quiet and har- BM ny. Entering college with five men, graduating with thirteen, V esprit du corps has strengthened with our number, so that no class ever gave bet- ter promise of future unanimity and concord than does Eighty-One. As one stands at the door of Old Hobart on a clear, quiet evening, he may see the golden moon rise liigher and higher before him, casting a long, shining path of light across the rippling waters of the lako. The path touches the shore just below his feet; it stretches directly away, like crink- iing gold, to the gleaming goal beyond. And in every other direction- the darkness and stillness of the surface is broken only by faint gleams of light reflected from some brighter star. As we stand at the college door and Jjaze out across the dark and unknown surface of our life that is yet to be, We too sec, rising higher and liigher in the East, the shining goal of Fancy, Imagination, Ambition, Love. And, from the feet of each one of us, thither leads a smooth, straight, brilliant path. No oue of ua would ex- change his path for another’s, for is not his own the only bright ooel Thank Qod that it is sol Many a man would sink down with despair were it not. 10

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I -€ENI0RCL1SS Class Colors, Silver and Blue. •--- 4--- CiSSS OFFICERS, M. A. BROWN, PRESIDENT. B. SYMONDS, Vice-President. H, MACBETH, - - ..... Sbchetabt. A. MANN, - - Treasurer, E. K, BUTTLES, - - - pOET. P, CUSHING, .... Orator. P. J. ROBOTTOM, .... Reading-Room Officer. 3 $= ■V K