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

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we can look down upon the work of our younger brothers of ’83 with ap- preciation of their toiJ ns now do tlio men of ’81 upon us. , Tho soliloquy of Xerxes when reviewing his immense armament finds a parallel in college life, for four years works a complete change in the members of the college and the places of those who are gone are filled up by new faces. Yet the guardian angel of Hobart ever hovers over Iter time-honored halls and in- stills into each new class that esprit du corps without which college life is so dend. But our philosophising is perhaps unnecessary. Reader, imag- ine nil possible benediction and good wishes and tako them to yourself and you will thus save us the trouble of writing to you our thanks and best wishes. Farewell.

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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

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FACULTY: •«FACULTY. - The Rev. ROBERT GRAHAM HINSDALE, S. T. D , President, Trinity Professor of Christian Ethics: Skartin Professor of the Evidences of Christianity, and Acting Prpfessor of Intellectual Philosophy JOHN TOWLER, M. A, M. D., Professor of Civil Engineering and of Chemistry, and Acting Professor of Mathematics and Modern Languages. HAMILTON L. SMITH, M. A., LL. D.? Pendergast Professor of Astronomy and Natural Philosopl . Joseph h. McDaniels, m. a, Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. CHARLES D. VAIL, M. A., (Adjunct) Horace White Professor of Rhetoric and Elocution, and of the English Lan- guage and literature EDMUND H. SMITH, M. A, LL. B., Hobart Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. DAVID F LINCOLN, M. A., M. D., Acting Professor of the Latin language and Literature. Professor of History and Political Economy The Rev, CHARLES Fn. KELLNER, Pn. D., Instructor in Hebrew. The Rev, WALTER AYR AULT, D. D., Chaplain and Pastor on the Swift Foundation. CHARLES D. VAIL, M A., Registrar and Librarian GEORGE McCOY, ; Janitor. ' • r ' m ' tt