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

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 i But as we graduate, we do not feel cheated in any sense. We have each chosen our paths of education, as we now must choose our paths in life. In retrospect, many incidents mark our stay. We remember the exciting times the best. It is the crazy, zany episodes of our student clays which stand out. They will grow with intensity as we grow older, along with the. . . Personalities. . .Progression. . . Honorific . . . Activities . . . Social . . . Ath- letic. 29

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In September of 1950, one-hundred and fifty high school graduates, assorted in size and demeanor, gathered under the auspices of Hobart College to “further their education.” All, in a particular fashion, have become educated. Some left to serve their country in the Korean crisis, some left of their own volition- submission, and others simple “left”. By our Senior year, the original group had dwindled to less than a hundred. The object of this group had undergone a change. Now, the urge to graduate had transcended the earlier, foolish urge to be educated. 28

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Pesii (utoliti i As Frosh, we were united against the Sophs, given purple lies, and HLA. . .We didn’t realize that Dom Gregory Dix was fighting with the HLA Department of basic tenets of the church...We learned of Agayentah, Art Kenny, rushing and beer at our First Fall Weekend. . . We noticed, many chicks, one called Omar in Silver Whistle”...A bald-pated mentor, named Spike, came to Hobart. . .As Sophs we didn't hear Brooks Otis swallow his conclusions at the bell...The Korean Police Action took some of us, the ROTC took others, and most of us look to Terry’s or the Seneca. . .Dave Moriarty left, to fly in the Navy Program ... As Seniors the Baer’s Lair strips pride front the Orange Key . . .Climax pitted Free press” against the Board of Control; . . Saleh Assad attacks Jews, Temple Club, and Dr. A-Z. . .Novelist Cary tells us our age is muddled”, but there is deeper hope. . .Union Col- lege gives away a potted Ivy”, and there is talk of a league. . . The Oaks gives away little green tickets... We beat Colgate anti lose to Le Moyne by I . . .Fabian Bowers and vivacious wife insist we must under- stand Asia. . .We go back to “Fin- gers ... and lest we forget, The Pot”. 30