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

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ECHO OF THE SKNHCA. including the Freshman editorial. was all done :it. flu .Gazutto-cdljce, Geneva, N. Y. Every one talcing ten copies wilt receive a cliroino in addition. Any one taking twenty copies will have his name inscribed on the college records as a public benefactor. Each editor clew’s 500,39 and is exempt from any further writing of essays and orations for the rest of his course. The report that the Prof, of the Latin department proposes using the Echo as a text hook is true. Before closing wc desire to call the attention of our subscribers to the fact tliat some degree of originality is due us, If they will com- pare this Echo with former publications of the kind, they will And that the imposing figure which has headed the Senior Smoking Club for the last quarter of a century 1ms been omitted in this number. With the modest ussuranee that this book may safely be perused by the Freshmen and other children, we recommend you all to criti- cally examine the following pages.

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WHO OK THE SENECA. Preface. tfjc? N(JOURAGED l .v the success which has attended similar previous 4{f efforts, the class of '8« has been induced to publish the Echo of Cp THE Seneca. a hook which, while it contains in a condensed ° form nil sorts of student organizations, shall also furnish an ex- tensive course of reading for such students as are desimus of acquiring mental cultivation beyond the limit of what facilities the college cur- riculum affords. At least, the general ijnpression seems to be that such was the intention of those who originated the ECHO; but one member of the present boant of editors is of the opinion that the Echo is tin institution established for the purpose of developing whatever tendency-to insanity the editors may have. The board, however, have decided that they publish this book for these reasons: (11 Because it is sure to be lintmcially successful, and therefore each editor will receive a small fortune which will carry him through life easily; (3) Because they will attain literary fame: and Cl) Because it is only just that the scholastic ability displayed in the editorials should be allowed to reflect favorably upon the Faculty. (The gentlemen of the Faculty will please note this last mason, and also remember that every editor smokes HuvHand Hemiup s best. ) We should not forget to mention that the Junior year is the happy period of our college life, when it becomes our duty, by means of such a publication as this, to unmercifully slug all the Profs, and students, including the young ladies of the “ Annex” across the way. If the students want to know who wrote the grinds, in the words of Solomon or Sullivan let them come on and grapple with ub, we have a slugger on the board. If the young ladies across the way are curiou they will please notify us and we are willing to visit them and explain all. To prevent being annoyed by the inquiring Freshmen who have subscribed we will make a few statements in advance. The EoHo is published by the Junior class of Hobart College, but the literary work.

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ECHO OF THE SENECA, |HE pleasant though somewhat arduous tusk of publishing the Echo 1ms at last fallen to the Class of Eighty-Six, while to us— her representatives—luis been allotted thS burden of preparation. We enter upon onr editorial duties cheerfully and fearlessly, sin- cerely hoping that our publication when completed will be fully up to the average standard of merit, and that it will in an humble way add something to the fairness of the fame of our Alma Mater, the doings of whose sixtieth year it now records. We have made many changes in both form and matter. Such organizations as have here- tofore existed only on paper we have excluded, it being our ebief aim to make our book, as far as possible, a true picture of college life; a picture which will represent to our graduates and friends the exact state of affairs as they are at Hobart to-day. The portrait of the mem- bers of the Faculty has been procured with much difficulty and we now present it for the first time. With onr issue appeal also the societies new steel engravings, which boar testimony to their pros- perous condition here at Hobart. Our readers will notice that our pages are wanting in vulgar and mean remarks concerning different gentlemen of the Faculty. We speak of this because there has been a growing tendency in the past few years to make this publication a mere satire upon that body, and if without such style of composition, -our efforts are judged to be .good, we will feel rewarded. Header, we leave the verdict with yourself. In reviewing the doings of the year ouv thoughts are naturally first turned towards athletics. Boating has never been made-very much of at Hobart, but this year it really seems as though some interest is beginning to manifest itself, particularly in ithe 'lower classes. Base Ball has always been ouv strong point, and the