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

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editorial: eighty-three. «=■ . -EDITORWti+’SS.- 9 ........................ ------------------------------ I ! tlE Junior year of ’83 rounds out the silver cresent, that another year will bring to the full. We have passed the turning stake of college -- life and now pause to take breath while we review with pride the achievements of the last two years and gird ourselves anew for the tasks that yet remain. And as we survey the past we hardly realize that half of our college days are over and we are Juniors, for two years ago the elevated position ap- peared very distant. It has been our fortune to figure during one part of our course as the largest, and during another ns the smallest class in college. • As Freshmen we mustered twenty-seven, a number insuring our success on every field where the timid Sophs, dared to meet and cope with us. But at the begin- ning of our Sophomore year the hand of time and the vicissitudes of fortune had removed all but twelve of that number and we marched on with closed ranks. Now again fortune has favored us and our class roll is increased to fifteen. We may smile when wc review the victories of our past two years, the exciting cane-ruslies, the unexpected bed-liftiug, the dreaded examinations, the conquered Todhunter and the baffled Calculus. But none of us can over forget tile jovial class-suppers or above all the two weeks’coast survey; and it is with sincere regret that we realize that so many pleasures have passed by. The taste of ’83 for the classics has been very marked, so strongly de- veloped ns not to escape the notice of the Faculty. We were the first class to undertake extra honor examinations. But this was not sufficient to ap- pease our thirst for the dead languages, and the Faculty have kindiv en- deavored to satiate us by adding extra recitations in Greek and Latin during the present year. But we still enjoy our Junior year, and consider it the happiest of our course thus far; for it adds many a strand of good social feeling, jollity 38

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THE CLASS OF EIGHTY-TWO. THE 0jA8S OF ’82. NAME. KRSfDKNCK, ROOM, BnNiiST Fixznnan Aybault, 2. J . Dr. Ay fault’s. Geneva. Walter Aykault, Jr., 2. l . Geneva. Dr. Ayrtuilt's. Charles Danford Bean, Geneva. Maple Ilill. John B. Blanchet, i . K. f. Kankakee, £11. 22 G. H. John Porter Bowman, 2. 1 . Rochester i2 g. ir. William Wood Collins, Lyons. 11 T. II. Harry Camp Heddes, z. f-. Newark, N. J. 8 William St. Alonzo Norton Hensiiaw, k. a. 18. G. H. Batavia. Robert Lynn, X. . Pontine, Mich. 18 T. II. Euoene Pierre Mallktte, 2. I . 20 G. II. Brooklyn, L. I. Charles Henry Nichols, Geneva. 57 Genesee St. Albert Lay Noble, 2. J . Bath. 20 G. II. Henry Axtell Prince, 2. 3 . Geneva. 12 G. II. Richard Francis Rankine, k. a. Dr, Rankine’s. William James Robinson, Geneva. 20 T. II. Geneva. Clarence Coan Toth ill, e. A. X. 1 G. H. Penn Tan. 200 Main St. John VanRbksselaer, 2. t . Qeueva. William Gordon VerPi.anck, 2. I . ’Main St. IS Scientific Course.

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 EDITORIAL EIGHTY-THREE. and warm friendship to the bonds that unite us as u class. Wc feel that wc os well as surrounding circumstances move on, that another rear has not passed without carrying us a few steps further toward the manliness with which Hobart endows all her faithful sons. We have brilliant hopes for the future and anticipate in onr Senior year less of the drudgery of assigned tasks, and space for general reading and united improvement. Four gems gleam on the crown of our Alma Mater and ours brightly among them. Of It we arc not ashamed and may it ever be our strongest desire to dim by no breath of 'dishonor the luster of that gem. May it ever shine! M i M '•i)]. ' W§ or . .; • Ill c.;