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

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Long ago in the days of the Indian legend, a great two-headed serpent lay coiled around Bare Hill. Before its death, effected by a surviving Seneca, the monster had swallowed all of the tribe; but when it died it spewed forth, liv- ing, all the Indians that it had once swallowed. This tribe, formerly a part of the wise and crafty serpent, became endowed with a part of the intelligence represented by and inherent in the huge snake. Strangely enough, an analogy may be clearly indicated between college life and legend. Consider for a moment our engulfment in a selected group of wise, intelligent men, well- schooled in all fields, and our subsequent release after four years of acquisition of knowledge and development of mind intended to make us more cognizant of Truth. It becomes evident that a decided similarity exists, one a feature of imagination and the other strict realism. Through the sanction of their own and divine intelligence, the Senecas killed the giant bloodsucker which spanned New York State, fought their enemies more skilfully and became more powerful. As these added powers, possessed by them alone, are repre- sented by legend, so are our endowments resulting from intellectual activity and its ramifications soon to be evinced in a like manner. L10]

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THE PRESIDENT Although his presence on the campus was greatly missed during the past year, William Alfred Eddy has been continually with us in spirit. His frequent cables and pleasant letters have given us the feeling that he still has a genuine interest in the college family, and have also revealed to us a more personal picture of life on the other side of the world. While Dr. Eddy has been working for the perpetuation of the democratic system abroad, Dr. John Ernest Lansing, acting president, has been doing a fine piece of work in keeping an institution vital to that democratic system, the American Col- lege, running smoothly and efficiently here at Hobart and William Smith. William Alfred Eddy, Ph.D., LL.D., L.H.D.f President. Litt.B., Princeton, 1917; A.M., 1921; Ph.D.. 1922. Hon: A.M., Dartmouth, 1934; LL.D., St. Lawrence, 1936; Col- gate, 1936; L.H.D., Wooster, 1937. Lhn., Dept, ot hng., Univ. of Cairo, Lgvpt, iy23 28; Asst. Prof, of Eng., Dau- mouth College, 1928 34; Prof., 1934 36; President, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, since 1936. Member: Phi Beta Kappa, Mod. Lang. Assn, of Amer. Author: Gulliver's Travels A Critical Study, 1923. Editor: Samuel Butler, Erewhon, 1930; Oxford Standard Edition of Jonathan Swift (2 vols.), 1932, 1933- Lieutenant-colonel, U. S. Marine Corps, 1941. Contr. prof publications. 690 South Main Street John Ernest Lansing, A.M. Acting President; Professor of Chemistry. A.B., Harvard, 1898; A.M., 1900. Instructor in Natural Sciences, Phillips Acad., Andover, Mass., 1901-03; Asst. Prof, of Chemistry, Hobart, 1905 06; Prof, of Chemistry since 1906; Acting President, first semester, 1941 -42. Member: Phi Beta Kappa, Amer. Chem. Soc. Author: Notes on Qualitative Analysis, 1910; A Short Course in Qualitative Analysis, 1939; Laboratory Experiments in Chemistry, 1940. 65 Hamilton Street See page four. fResignation, tendered because of the pressure of duty with the United States Marines, takes effect in August, 1942. cm