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

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John Kehle Burleson, K A, . Oneida, Wis. 9 T. H. Moses Hale Douglas, K A, East Wareham, Mass. Kappa Alpha Lodge William Alexander Evans, 2 t , Florence, S. C. Sigma Phi House James McCaw Johnston, K A, Geneva. Col. Johnston’s William Poyntelle Kemper, 2 X, Milwaukee, Wis. 16 G. H. William Bruce McPherson, K . Aquasco, Md. 2 G. H. Walter Moray Pegram, t K 'F, . New York. . 20 G. H. Samuel Rand, 2 I», . Pittsford. Sigma Phi House Harold Sturgis Rankine, K a, Geneva. Rev. Dr. Rankine’s Arthur Jarvin Sill, .... Geneva. Mr. Sill’s Louis Matthews Sweet, . Geneva. Dr. Sweet’s Francis William Whitwell, f Geneva. Mi. Whitwell’s Joseph Taliaferro Taylor, K A, Charleston, S. C. . 23 T. H. 20

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jfaforg, '93 How hard it is to realize that the third year of our sojourn under the shadow of Hobart’s classic walls is already ebbing ; and that the character of our college days has alreadv received its distinctive stamp! As we look back through the scenes of the past years and see how the vast, well nigh boundless, though somewhat shadowy and crude aspirations of the Freshmen settled down into the more distinct and tangible though still Titanic expectations of the Sophomore and these again have ripened into the mature and more rational purpose of a Junior, which if more limited than that ot the under-classman is at any rate more earnest and substantial: then we realize how much of history our class already has. But it would be in vain for the Historian of the Class of Ninety-Three to attempt to recount here the story of its experiences and its successes, nor need he undertake it for the reader is doubtless already informed and the class will not ex- pect it. AnK-ctr kul etyiu has always been their motto, but they have never been under the unfortunate necessity of placing the chief emphasis on the “ seeming ” but tn»m the start they resolved not only to “ seem ” on all occasions but actually to 4’ be” Christian men and gentlemen. How far they have succeeded or failed is a matter of individual history, but they try to aim ever at this ideal and hope to keep as a motto through life the Sokw teal clvai ot college days. The student’s life is largely one of development and expansion, and his chief difficulties perhaps arise from his ignorance of his exact qualifications or disquali- fications. In these days when science is beginning to discover that different men have different minds and require different methods of instruction to insure the best results it behooves the student to beware of attempting to stretch himself too closely to the Procrustean bed of a lime-honored curriculum and on the other hand not to give too free play to his mental proclivities lest he fail to gain that discipline and power of continued attention necessary to successful work in after life. These difficulties and many others are first realized by the Junior, and it is doubtless well that they do not intrude themselves upon the already well filled brain of a Freshman. o I HISTORIAN.