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

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Senior Histon . OR the last time the members of '98 address the indulgent reader of The Echo. Many changes have taken place since the class first arrived in Geneva, ignorant of what was before it and yet confident that a worthy record would be made whatever came. And now almost at the close of that life, to which we so eagerly looked forward, a retrospective glance shows much of which to be proud. In all branches of College life, in the broad character-forming student life, which well prepares us for conflict with an unfeeling world, as well as in the classroom, where we get the material with which to build up from that foundation, in all this, ’9S has borne her responsibilities well. She can feel that if one and all continue to do as well in the future as in the past, without doubt a glorious future is in store for her. A word of remembrance and of regret must be said for those who, starting bravely with us for one reason or another could not complete their College life. They are with us in spirit and though they have not stood shoulder to shoulder with us through the heat of the whole contest, yet their example and devotion are ever with us to spur us on when we “ close up,” to struggle hard for victory. What the future has in store for us none can tell, but whatever fortune may be ours we will always look bach on our College course as the happiest and best spent years of our life. Historian. 24