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

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 -£= 1 SALUTATORY, SALUTSTORY.h T ----— ' f HE Sonior, clad in his dressing-gown, with slippers on his foot, his liis head surrounded by a halo of the fragrant smoke that is con- stantly issuing from the fantastic pipe in his mouth, sits in his warm and cosy room before a table piled high with books. In front of him lies his manuscript and the freshly-dipped pen tells of his work. A knock at the door Is heard. He says, “Como in! ” and as Tub Echo op tub Seneca, which has come to make its yearly visit is handed in, he takes it, lays down his pen, and wheeling his chair to the radiator is soon absorbed. The opening of the Junior's door reveals a figure reclining in an arm chair, his feet on the radiator or the window-sill, his eyes resting lightly on the bosom of the lake while his thoughts wander far away and he dreams of “eyes so blue and heart so true”; or olso with cigarctto in mouth ho reads with intense interest the amorous odes of some love-sick poet. He, too, waking from his abstraction or throwing aside liis book is soon devour- ing the contents of The Echo. In response to a loud knock at the Sophomore’s a chorus of discordant voices cries, “ Come! ” and there around a table sit four or fivo Sophomores ostensibly studying. On the table are a text-book, grammar, lexicon and a carryall for those who wish to ride. One translates a few lines, another criticises, a third breaking in changes the topic and soon all are discussing some reminiscence more congenial perhaps than the lesson. A mental struggle stops the digression and they return to the translation with much the same results ns before. Yet the appearance of The Echo moots the same welcome that it had at the doors of tiro upper classmen. A knock that echoes and re-echoes from the bare wails of the Fresh- man’s room brings his door open and ho is seen sitting before a large table alone spending his time in ceaseless study. He takes The Echo with a “thank y'ou,” and laying it aside as a treat for some leisure time in the future resumes his study. 8