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

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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

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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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P'UHfted.diatt We went to Columbia and felt humility, but we got a new chaplain, and a new frater- nity—Phi Tail. . .Passion moved some” to a Franklin, but Franklin and “some” were re- moved . . . We heard of Quals, and the For- ward Program, Hunks, Keuka and ihe cool sounds of the Hobarteers, in “Coney Island Baby . . .As Sophs, we watched the remnants of the barracks being taken away, and moved into the new modern dorms—no closets. . . ALS moved and we stopped throwing things at the waiters; no more waiters. . .As Juniors, Anderson, Tiger and Evangelista ran the ROTC. with some help. . .As Seniors high- way moves Phi Phi’s to Sig Chi house and Sig Chi goes to Nash. . .with panty raids a thing of the past we finally get girl cheer leaders at Fall Weekend, but snow gets Fall Weekend as major Festivities arc called off. . .Board of Control pushes officer election proposal... Ping Pong disappears from ihe N.S.U., and we look to grad school or the service. .. oLlo+ta u)ic Our high school honors rested lightly on our heads as we were one—the freshmen. . . We were given the honor of wearing the ties as Frosh, but we disdained. . .The college curriculum was approbated by the Episcopal Church...A Hobart Alumnus got a Stalin Peace Prize . . . Marg Mead explained to naive Frosh the causes of Anglo-American babies during WW II. . .we were shoved into HLA with the Sophs. . .As Juniors. . .tuition was made to ascend, Griff was elected prexy of the N.Y. Collegiate Drama Association . . . Hobart got . 40,000. . .We read Bellamy Partridge’s “Salad Days” about Hobart. . .Eddie Tryon coached the best football team since the ’30’s, and we saw Bill Lee’s article in the Hartford Courant about Ed and Red Grange. . .Prof. George Calingaert finally got the lead out of his gas... Morton, Bruno make Little All- American. . .Alumni Frank C. Moore resigns as Lt. Governor, leaving the Wicks-Dewey controversy in his wake.