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

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elisi v,—- wff EDITORS. H. S. PRINCE, W. F. HUMPHREY A. N. HENSHSW, C. C. TUTMILL. pfiERT LYNN, J. P. BOWMAN, W. AYRSULT, JR.

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SALUTATORY, 8s= Such Is the picturo of every-day life in the College, and it is well that once a year comes the duty of preparing Tins Echo and the pleasure of re- 'Ceiving it. Now is the third year of the College course of the Class of ’82. Our feelings are the mingled ones of pleasure, regret and anticipation. Upon vtho past we can but look with pleasure, freighted ns it is with pleasant mem- cries; yet there is a regret that it is gone forever. To the future we look with anticipation. Even now we realize the feelings of the Seniors who 'are.about to step out from College life into the world, and we look with re- gret at the rapidly decreasing interval of time that separates uh, too, from ■that leave-taking. You say, Enough of this mournful strain; but then, you ’know it is characteristic of the Junior year that these thoughts, more sober, ®»re reflective, should begin to fill the mind. ■Hand in hand with these reflections goes our interest in College and ■Class Our Alma Mator is once more in active condition. Our President Ihftfl returned and is managing the helm with his vigorous hand. The stund- . JMd of the College has been raised, and for honor men there nro provided i 'Social biennial examinations. The students publish a college monthly, and flourishing literary society is in existence. In sports a like movement is felt. The navy, so long a paper' organization is now a reality; base ball and foot ball find ready support among the students, and a gymnasium now hnflnisked will, we trust, before another year be completed. Two emi- nently.'successful field-days have boon held, and interest in athletics gcncr- • (Illy is on' the increase. Witli such surroundings as those what wonder that the students are sat- And what wonder that we, the Class of ’82, are especially satisfied, i Ploto iiho time In which wo first set our foot upon College life there has %en‘in the Class of 82 4 marked aversion to discord; and so dear to tho i .teorf.of one of us is class harmony and class interest that mutual con- : yces fis are made to avoid ill feeling. We are now the only class that rep- , v£e ent8 an essentially republican form of government with no ruling party. •€ «?■ intention was to publish The Echo during the fall term of 1880, 'ixiif ibeing delayed in regard to our cuts were forced to postpone its publica- ns till .fhe 'holidays. This delay cannot fail to bo productive of good to Thb EoSOj and We submit these following pages to tho student world as a of-ChriStmas present, expecting just criticism, yet anticipating at least p8S$ia-i' Approval. Ere another Eouo is published wo shall bo Seniors. Then 4