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

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 -!PtfE+]tINI0R+CL7I3j3- HOBART SOLLEEE, OEREVA, N. Y. VOLUME XXII. FEBRUARY, Jggg. 7 r 4» =%- GENEVA, N. Y.: PRINTED AT THE GAZETTE STEAM PRINTING IIOTJ8E. 1882.

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SALUTATORY. ft i -jSflliUWWQRY. —-------- SGA1N has The Echo, reverberating from the eastern hills, crossed the lake, and again, we trust, do the tidings of Hobart which it brings fall pleasantly upon the ears of student and graduate alike. This time it resounds the events of Hobart’s fifty-seventh year, and the earnest voices which give them utterance arc those of Eiglity-Three. For two years wo have watched the efforts of preceding classes and commented on their publications. Now it is we who attract the attention— our’s the production which must be submitted to the close scrutiny and unsparing criticism of the college world. We take one look before we leap and then we do it boldly, for we are confident in regard to our little book that while our fellow-students will “ Be to its virtues very kind.” they will carry out the other line of the couplet and Be to its faults a little blind.'' The current college year has been marked by two rather significant events. Eighty-One graduated the largest class in ten • years and Eighty- Five has entered the smullcst class in five years. The natural conclusion would seem to be thut the prosperity which the college has enjoyed for the past few years, and the increase in the number of her students, were merely temporary—the result of spasmodic struggles for life on tlio part of a dying institution. We hope that this conclusion is a mistaken one. Wc think it is ; but we have simply stated the facts. However it is not the mission of The Echo to find fault or indulge in idle regrets, so let us turn from this rather disheartening consideration of our numbers and look for n moment at that which has brought Hobart into greater promiuence during the past year than any other one thing. We know that our words but echo the general opinion of the college, when we mention the Base Ball, and the stripling university on Seneca’s sister lake whose chief pride is in its mushroom growth, was twice forced to ac- knowledge that old Hobart had not yet forgotten her cunning but was t ■sMs==s 8 m