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

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Quotations have been carefully chosen and applied to whomso- ever they best fit. If any feels himself unjustly “ground,” we crave his pardon; but if the simple truth hurts, we make no apologies. We cannot claim to be free from error; we have done our best to avoid all such and have endeavored to profit by the experience and advice of others. For our work we anticipate nothing in the phenomenal line, but express the hope that the Echo may serve to relieve the dull monotony of college curriculum and to carry the alumnus back to pleasant memories of former days. All in all, we have done what we could, and if our ability seems small, we deprecate the generosity of our more talented friends who would advise us of the fact. We deem it hardly necessary to urge upon our fellows, and particularly our successors, the importance of maintaining the Echo in its present high sphere, as with some degree of thankfulness we lay aside our editorial duties. These, truly, have been no easy task, but we have been glad to perform them for our Alma Mater and for the class whose best interests we are ever eager to serve. Vobis adest Echo ; pro se elloquatur. (S

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Sciitorial. NOTHER year is fast slipping into the abyss of eternity and it devolves upon ’95 to present to the students and alumni of Hobart the Echo of the Seneca. In presenting this, the thirty- third volume of the Echo, it has been our purpose to maintain as far as possible, the general make-up of previous issues that the book might the more easily lend itself to purposes of preservation. The College Annual, aside from the fact that it is a book of reference and statistics, has gradually assumed a character which is literary and artistic and humorous as well; which character, indeed, has become the leading feature of such a publication. Wherefore, to compile a manual of mere statistics would neither be satisfying our aim nor producing anything of interest to others; but in that college life is made of many phases and incidents it is possible to utilize these and by some method of treatment put into them that subtle flavor which characterizes student life, so as to impart to those outside of college halls a faint idea of their interior. This we have tried to do and hence the free and easy, as well as the more serious, are both herein presented ; more ink being added, only when wishing to give a pleasing likeness of the original. We depart a little from the usual course in the matter of our drawings and pride ourselves that we are able to present the work of artists of skill.

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Speed, ECHO OF THE SENECA! Thy race proclaim afar, As when the Sun his coursers yokes To Phoebus’ glittering car. Be off! Nor fear the World’s rude gaze; The God of Fate is stern. Far lesser lights than thou, do shine, And few more brightly burn. Up! ECHO OF THE SENECA, As Indian Warrior bold, And haste thee on thy yearly course; Woe him that bids thee, hold!