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

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EDITORIAL EKr STY-THREE. HEDIT0RIAL ’83.t- § T A I ifi could write a very brilliant editorial if we cliose, but modesty is A one of our strong points and compels us for the present to “ hide -V--JL our light under a bushel.” Perhaps this diffidence on our part is a mistake. We are half inclined to think so ourselves. The ave» age liter- ary ability, which finds its vent in class editorials, is so poor that it would doubtless be quite refreshing to the readers of The Echo to peruse a mas- terpiece from the pen of Eighty-Three. However, since our retiring dispo- sition will not permit us to gratify them, they must be content with a brief glance at our history and a condensed account of our numberless achieve- ments. We entered, the largest class that Hobart has boasted of for fifteen years. We won the rush, rang the bell, and passed the year unmolested by the Sophs, whose courage had been effectually dampened by the canc rush. Our marked ability in our studies is evidenced by the fact that we arc the first class who were considered capable of undertaking extra work for “honors.” We began this year- reduced in numbers. We are “ small, but oh, my 1 ” The cane rush wo pass over in silence. That usually most interesting event of the fall term was, this year, for some unaccountablo reason, a complete, fizzle. As Sophomores it devolved on us to instruct the infant mind of Eighty-Four in all things pertaining to college life. We accepted the trust with confidence and have discharged our duties with honor. The Fresh- men now show their respoct for us and their appreciation of thoir inferior position, by treating the 8ophomore class to cigars, offering to wait upon them at the college supper and numerous delicate little attentions of like character. Our only error in training them, if error it can bo called, has been that we were too tender with them. We rang the college bell for them and gave them the credit. Wo seized upon one of their number, in the night time, for a little necessary discipline, but let him go when lie cried. That 18 m

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THE CLASS OF EIGHTY-TWO. TME4LMMF !82,3 NAME. RESIDENCE. Ernest Fitzhugh Ayrault, 2. t . Geneva. Walter Ayrault, Jr., 2. 4. Geneva. Charles D. Bean. Geneva. John B. Blanciibt. Kankakee, III. Joiin Porter Bowman, 2. »! . Rochester. William Wood Collins. Lyons. Alonzo Norton Henshaw, k. a. Batavia. William Francis Humphrey. Geneva. Robert Lynn, X. 4 . Pontiac, Mich. Eugene Pierre Mallett, 2. l . Brooklyn. John Wheeler Mellen, 2. •. Geneva. Charles H. NrcnoLS. Geneva. Albert Lay Noble, 2. t . Bath. Henry Axtell Prince, 2. J . Geneva. Richard Francis Rankine, k. a. Geneva. William James Robinson, Sterling, III. Clarence C. Tutiiill, 6. A. K. Penn Tan. William Gordon YerPlanck, 2. 4 . Geneva. ROOMi Dr. Avrault’s. Dr. Ayrault’s. Maple Hill. 19 G. H. 21 G. H. 19 T. H. 18 G. H. 13G. H. 11 T. II. 13 T. H. Mr. Mellon's. 57 Genesee St. 14 G. H. 184 Main St. Dr. Rankine's. 2 G. H. 24 T. H. 285 Main St. ' v; m

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EDITORIAL EIGHTY- THREE. was perhaps a mistake; but our tender natures could not resist his infant wails. The Sophomore Exhibition has come and gone. Although it was with great hesitancy that we made this our first appearance before tho citizens of Geneva, still we think that we reflected great credit upon ourselves and tho College in keeping up this time-honored custom, considering that we were so few in number. The Freshmen, thinking it incumbent upon them to burlesque this entertainment, with their proverbial vordaucy caused much ill feeling among their own ranks, since a certain Freshman claiming that the program tended more to indicate himself than any of the Sophomores, now threatens to withdraw from his class which appreciates him so highly. We are looking forward with great pleasure to our class supper and the spring surveying. And now, having finished this very brief sketch of our career, we make our bow and retire. The next time wo appear it will be as upper classmen. 4