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

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PROLOGUE Hobart College, born at a time when the land around Seneca Lake was a primitive vastness, is today an institution teaching modern con cepts in a modern environment. And yet beneath this site of modern concept and environment lies the foundation of tradition and antiquity. Agayentah and the Seneca tribe arc this tradition of which Hobart and her sons are so proud. The antiquity is the Agayentah legend whose moral gave to the Seneca tribe a spirit which was to make it mightiest among the Five Nations. Upon these foundations of antiquity and tradition, Hobart College and her sons found their meaning. Of the disobedience of the young chieftain Agayentah. two songs are sung by the people Seneca. One tells how Agayentah defied the tribal code banning fishing during the spawning- period. went by canoe to the great lake, and was borne to its depths by a monster fish for his dis- obedience. The other tells how Agayentah, chief among the hunters, killed a buck, cursed Manitou for having caused the meat to spoil during a storm, and was burned to ashes by a bolt of yellow- lightning. When the storm clouds gather, and the great lake begins to swell and pilch, it is told that Agayentah’s cries of defiance against law. both man and spirit-made, can be heard booming from the watery deep.

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ECHO OF THE SENECA HOBART COLLEGE GENEVA, NEW YORK

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