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

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glass P|isfc©i , ’91. THREE and a half years have passed, since the class of ’91, then numbering twenty-eight members, entered the walls of dear old Hobart. Three years have wrought many changes In us, both as individuals and as a class — changes so great, that only four of those, who originally entered with the class, yet remain. They have been years full of toil and pleasure, sorrow and joy. Death and misfortune have come among us, and have taken from us men of brightest promise. To others, however, the blind goddess has granted a draught from her golden cup. When we look back upon the early days of our college life, when we recall our victories on the campus and our successes in the recitation room : in spite of the training time has given us, something of the old spiritof Sophomore boastful- ness is aroused within us. We do feel proud to think that the wine and blue twice adorn Hobart’s classic cane, and that many members of Ninety-One will leave behind them records of scholarship and of athletic skill and prowness, If Ninety-One has lost many of her old members, she has also had the pleasure of welcoming new ones. The wilds of Minnesota have sent us one. Another, from the Buckeye State, whom a New York powder mill failed to elevate, has joined our charmed circle. Even Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, has sent us a subject from the frozen North, to show us how they do things at Me Gill. But, laying aside all pleasantries, Ninety-One looks back upon much work well done. At the beginning of our college course, we chose as our motto, Hct'pa 6tjv Travru. rcXeirui. and truly many of us can appreciate the force of the word “llcipp” jn our struggle for the goal. This, however, has made us stronger, better, and we hope, wiser men ; and, as we approach nearer and nearer the end, we realize that we have but gone over a small part of the road to knowledge and wisdom. The vast field of the world lies before us. Of learn- ing we have only tasted, not drank deeply. The practical problem of life is yet 19