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

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Foreword “Oh!.............that mine adversary had written a book. I' SEEMS almost inevitable and customary that we should explain just why we are, and what we pretend to be, but. good reader, we know that you will excuse us if we for- bear to charge such unnecessary windmills, for “why wc are” is sufficient unto itself, and “what we pretend tube” no one would believe, so we will not try you with any “why” or “wherefore” of our just right to exist. But, good reader, any institution, that has for its purpose the training of young men to a higher usefulness in material, mental, and spiritual ways of life, should bear many records of itself. And we believe that what is contained in this, our volume, is, in the merest outline, the sum and substance of a many sided education. It is the bare record of ourselves and our contemporaries in college life, and such a. work that of itself it forbids original and imaginative endeavour. But such as it is, we offer it to you without hesitation or fear. If it is to be unfavorably criticised, we hope for good matured criticism, and if well taken, we hope it worthy f your esteem. “Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the good natured man.” Editor.

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This Book is Affectionately Dedicated to WILLIAM PITT DURFEE Professor of Mathematics and Dean of the Faculty, Whose Wisdom and Gentleness of Character Have Endeared Him to the Hearts of the Class of Nineteen Sixteen.

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 § f ■M w f • • f; 1 f, f; fy ft I « • - £•’ 'r ; yu ; 1916 ECHO BOARD Kenneth C. Hyde Editor-in-Chief Kenneth L. Rutherford Literary Editor James B. Post Club Editor Robert W. Evans, Jr. Business Manager William H. Pascoe Art Editor Paul J. Weller Athletic Editor Herman M. Battey Assistant Business Manager