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

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To fke Reader. To all whom chance may cause to look Within the pages of this book, Tlie friendly word we wish' to say, We hope they’ll take in kindly way. With sages wise we don’t intend In these few pages to contend, But simply strive to show to you What students here are wont to do. So if herein you chance to find Aught incongenial to vour mind, - Make no remark unkind or mean But pass it by as though not seen. Of yore when writers gay or grave Forth to the world their fancies gave. No wood-cut ever caused a smile, Engravings too were not in style. But we poor moderns these must use Or else in vain we call the muse, And such things cost a goodly sum That from poor pockets has to come. Therefore wc beg of yon dear friend Your aid to us in this way lend ; The price is small, you’ll not say no,. When asked to buy one more Echo.. 6

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]$oard of Editors. Literary T oard. 4 E. H. VINCENT, K A Editor-in- Chief. W. E. Hti.ls, 0 A X 2 J- H. Perkins, K’t W.i.O.tlyAPHAM, 5 (' 7 E. V. Collins. fastness IJoard. 2 j. H. Perkins, Chairman. ' ■ W. S. Norwell, K A 6 )•'. W. Chamberlain,

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Editorial. It is difficult for the present generation of students to conceive that our Annual was. not always such as it is . now; with a j ust pride.in its past, an aCtive and aggressive, present, and a. well grounded confidence in its future. It is difficult to think of it at a time when it had no past, but only a struggling present, and a future which was doubtful, almost visionary. Two fleeting years of our. College course have passed—j ears filled with deeds of. glowing heroism—when wc return to undertake the work which the previous classes have done so well. And we now. present this; the twenty-ninth volume of The; Echo of the; Seneca, for your careful consid- eration. In sending our publication forth, it is but just to sajj. that wc have labored long and earnestly; if we have failed in any particular, it is because of our inex- perience. We have attempted to give an account of the inner life.of the College. We have endeavored to make this volume commend itself by its worth to the students and to the alumni, as a book of reference, and at the same time we have attempted to add such features as we hope will make the ■ work attractive to the ■ casual observer. If in the future ;this shall cheer the spirits of some College man and aid him to look back with happy rec- ollections to..his College, course, we shall feel that our work was not altogether in vain. . '7