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

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long desired Gymnasium has become a certainty; tl e largest Freshman class for some years has entered; a learned and popular gentleman has been added to the Faculty; athletics have again taken their old place as a feature of the student life, and many other events of the greatest interest have transpired. If by the publication of our Annual the warm class feeling, that has always characterized Eighty-seven has been increased, and we have been brought more and nearer together, in spite of its many short-comings and weaknesses, we will consider our “Echo” a sueeess; and it is with that hope that we resign our place as Echo editors to the class of Eighty-eight. EDITORS.

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P ditori al. AT LAST it has become the duty as well as the pleasure of the Class of ’87 to observe the time honored custom of publishing an “Echo.” Now that, our work is completed and ready to go before the criticising eye of the public, wo become painfully aware that in spite of the time spent and trouble taken, “wo have left undone many things that wo ought to. have done,” and that the pages of onr Annual reflect but faintly and imperfectly the life at College and the many happenings of greater or less importance that have made. this the most interesting and eventful year of our college course. Wo have endeavored to make the. twenty-fifth volume of the “Eeho” have one feature to which, we would respectfully call the attentiori of our critics, and that is originality. The senseless pagos of “grinds” havo been omitted ; to the Geneva young lady we have by our silence said, “ requiescat in pace;” those monuments of the past,, the cuts used by the previous Echo editors, have boon presented to the new museum, and original electrotypes have been used throughout. The engraving of the buildings will, we trust, be of interest to the Alumni and other friends of the Oollogo. May it inspire them to add another Hall to tho “How” for the accommodation of the rapidly increasing number of students. The past year has been of unusual interest to Hobart and her friends. Within the short twelve months the handsome new Library has been erected; the old Middle Building, hallowed by so many tender recollections of English recitations, has boeomo a heap of smouldering ruins; the

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