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EDITORIAL EIGHTY-FOUR. HEDIT0RIAL»’84 She start»,—she moves,—she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning with her foot the ground. With one exulting, joyous bound. She leaps into the ocean’s arms: ” 'X0 '} tei ill: m W M? ...W i- ONE can scarcely find words more appropriate than tliese to depict the launching forth of a new class into the ocean of college life. Like the ship, the class starts, mores, and seems to feel a thrill of life, which.none but those who bare entered college for the first time as “ Fresh- men” can appreciate. Like the shapely ship, well riveted and launched, she plunges forth, exulting and joyous, into those waters that like the ocean itself abound with storm and calm alike, that contain treasures hidden to the uninitiated, and-in which we experience pleasures innumerable. It begins a voyage, where, if dangers are not well guarded against, destruction may use her strong and terrible hand; but where also if danger-signals are care- fully kept in mind, and well looked after, we may reach the harbor of graduation in safety. Thus the Class of Eighty-Four, though of medium size, but built of a material to withstand the tempests she might encounter, and fearlessly meet the attack of any enemy, bound by strong bonds of friendship which became firmer and firmer as the voyage advanced, was launched forth on her cruise of four years. No class has ever entered college under better auspices than Eighty- Four, Launched at a time when .nature is most beautiful, the early sum- mer, she passed the shoals of the entrance examination with a feeling of the greatest security; launched amid the pleasures of one of Hobart’s most en- joyable commencements, she exulted to roll on the ripples of gaycty; launched at a time when all the college was rejoicing at the return of her well-beloved and honored President, she was joyous at being able in her infancy to welcome him home. And this is not all: those characteristics pf “class feeliDg,” evenness of temper, harmony and strength in action, which have been, with her thus far on her course, were shown even at her birth, giving her increased courage to encounter the trials that might await her. And as our start was so promising, our course thus far has been move prosperous than oar greatest anticipation. Despite the animosity of old Neptune (the Senior class) in stirring up (the waters around us, many ready hands have been opened to lend us aid,- and more ready tongues to point out our defects, and tell us our timbers Mfc..... sitWv5»: ; ■ fflj m Mi w mmmMc 22
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EDITORIAL EIGHTY-FOUR. were all loo “ JErcah.” None the worse, however, did we passthrough the storm of the “ Cane rmh,” and pushing aside the angry billows reached old “ Port Trinity,” leaving our ‘i friends, the enemy,” in the condition of the boy whose beauty had been spoiled by fooling with a spirited colt that kicked—not so good looking as they were before, but knowing a great deal more. Bravely we encountered the piratical hazere, and though .at first taken, by surprise, we at last conquered and dispersed them on all sides. Having captured several we intended to execute theusybut thinking a severe enough lesson had been given to prevent their further molesting us, wo did not carry out our design, although the “ropes were around their necks.” One we were forced to leave in a distant land (not) among savages. Our trials for the moment passed, we commenced industriously our re- searches into the beauties of the Grecian poet, into the sublimity of Cicero’s disquisitions, into the arcana of the “Vailed” oracle of the middle build- ing, and into the difficulties of “casting out nines.” Our plans being well laid out it was with ease that we travelled through these hidden mysteries; and it was with the meter of Iiomer, and the thoughts of Cicero running in our minds, a new idea of how to smougo the “vowel triangle,” snef hopes that the Senior Professor would soon go “surveying,” that we entered the lists of Field Day. Unluckily for us these sports had not been put down among the requirements for admission to college, so we were not as thor- oughly prepared in running, jumping, etc., as wo had boon in Greek and Lathi, and though wc took sevoral well-earned prizes, we willingly, allowed our honored seniors to carry off the greater part. And now being well advanced on our journey with calm sea and favor- ing winds, we approach the end of our first term, none of us regretting his choice of “ Old Hobart.” Eneouroged by our past achievements, we antic- ipate a bright future, especially when all around us are exclaiming: “ Sail on, O Ship, so strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes-of futuro years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!” ■
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