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

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And so the unfortunate victim retires to his study and sits down at his desk to write an editorial which shall ill! a page and a half of the Ectto arid, if possible, do justice to the class. But- however that may be, the apace must be filled. What can lie write? Shall he speak of the satisfaction, the dignity and gravity that come with the Junior year? Of the zeal with which the class is follow- ing out the labarinthine arguments of the “Do Corona?” Of the enthusiasm with which they delve among the treasures of the mother-tongue? Shall ho describe the awe. and reverence inspired in the timid Freab. by heating from Junior lips the “ Mnemonic Lines75 quoted and. discussed in preference to the idle, bootless chatter of less highly favored mortals? The unquenchable thirst of knowledge w'hich prompts a thorough investigation of the Nat- ural Laws as laid down by Ganot? Or, belter still, shall he assume a vivacious tone and tell of the conquests made by the Junior, gal- lant and gay, and then grow pensive as he mentions the sorrowful fact that for the Class of ’81 the course is more than half completed and the end draw's on apace? It cannot be that he write of these, for when the book comes from the press some college antiquary, well read in many preceding u Echoes, •5 will exclaim, “ The Junior editor has smoag- ed ’GO’S Sophomore editorial;” or “He has mixed ’75’s Junior cd. and ’75-s Senior effusion.” And old files will be produced and the hapless writer condemned, because, forsooth, the experience of one class is much like that- of another [ Bo the present- Junior searches in the house of his intellect for some item of class interest that is not an echo, and, finding none, heaps imprecations both loud and deep upon the mover of his election, and yows that, so far as he i.s concerned, the. Class of ’81. will have to do without its editorial. NZXZhl i

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10 ECHO Of THU SRN'ECA. T editorial for the Echo! ’ and the Junior class assemble “ ( Iemu conclave to appoint some one to -write it. A nomination is made and seconded. In vain the Presi- dent waits for the name of another aspirant to the high honor. , The vote is east, the tellers make their report, and, lo! a miracle! j; The class is unanimous, with one exception, the nominee himself 1 j i We would, not for a single moment be understood as implying that | •’ the class is not always unanimous; the wonder is that the unity of jthought, purpose and. action is not manifested by each man’s voting j.’ for himself! Surely the editor e.lcot must be a man of immense intellect and |influence! If we may believe what he says a« ho rises to his feet, j t he is incapable of framing a single line. He is very greatly grieved 1 that he .must decline, so high an honor, but his loyalty toward his class imperatively demands that he resign, in favor of Mr.---------. Brave, modest, magnanimous youth! nominations are now made with rapidity and are with charming modesty as ra.pidly declined. Matters arc growing desperate; all the nantes lathe class have been proposed and withdrawn excepting one, when some individual who is destined to become a brilliant success as a crafty, treacherous, pettifogging member of the Bar, proposes that the class shall accept no more resignations; the motion is eagerly seconded, en- thusiastically carried; for the only negative vote comes in a sten- torian tone from the member whose name has not yet been proposed. Alas, his doom, is sealed! like tiger crouching for his prey, the “artful dodger ” makes a nomination; but who could suspect from the courteous tones of the nominating voice that the owner is gratifying a personal antipathy? Alas for the duplicity of class elections!

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,f: P i i n ; !i H g P f | j ECHO OV THE SENECA. , ...- - 1c EAR with all its vicissitudes, its joys and its sorrows, i' A'- ias PaF sec hearing with it into the unalterable past our actions, whether good or bad, and once again are we called upon to appear before the readers of the Echo. Wc now enter upon this task with more confidence than we did a year ago? for what then were hopes are now facts, and wc speak no longer of what may be, but of what is. A surprising fluctuation has taken place in the Class of ’82 dur- ing the past year. Of the original number of the class but one half remains at Hobart. ' The rest have betaken themselves—some to schools of medicine or theology, others to business. With pain- ful regret do we recall the death of one of the most respected of our number, who, though with us for so short a time, by his noble bearing won from us our love, and whose example we- may well; imitate. To compensate in part for these losses in number, ir) place of those- who have gone five have joined ua, hfotwithstanding all the changes that have taken place, the char- acteristics of the class have been preserved, and it is with pride that wo point, among others, to the entire absence of discord of ill feeling in all class business, though before aud behind us wc sec repeated instances of faction, disagreement and the like. As to our interest in all college matters, we need only say that we are fully represented in each organization: in the college choir, in the glee club, in the base ball nine, as well as in the foot ball team', while in our own number we have a base ball nine, a double quartette, and an orchestra From our proficiency in athletic sports it may be- well to pass to our mental characteristics; and while we would not boast, yet we confidently say that not in vain have wo grappled with the intricate subject of coast surveying and naviga- tion, a practical application of which was given in a cruise last term. Demosthenes has failed to terrify us with liis ringing argu- ments 7T?pl rov rre j avovj though so early In the course have wc met him. m A-A. r . £- £• .... 17 ' rr ’-Viv v Wr'i -V ir.V.'s -' Ac -1' V N ■iwhr.i-tJafUismtvG'