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I Bishop Hobart JOHN HENRY HOBART “It was gray in the pre-dawn of that September morn in 1820 as the six men approached the crest of a gentle hill. Walking in pairs, the men noted the mist rising from the Lake below, but it being too early for conversation, each maintained his silence. The two who led reached the crest and quick- ened their pace. Then one, whose garb marked him as clergyman of the Episcopal Church, held up his staff and paused. The others quickly gathered round. “Standing near the edge of the bluff, the men conferred, each in his way expressing an opinion. But just as the first rays of sun danced across the mist, the talk ceased. The one whose bearing, as well as the cross and ring, marked him a leader of his Church, took a dozen brisk steps away from the bluff. As the others came up, he slowly raised the staff and struck it into the ground saying, “Here, gentlemen, this is the spot for the College.” “With those words John Henry Hobart, third Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, chose the site for the College which was to perpetuate his name.” From “Twenty Generations of Hobart 20
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tl The new St. Mark's Tower and Spire which will join the Hobart and William Smith Library at the left and St. John’s Chapel at the right in a physical union symbolic of the relationship between religion and learning at a church college. The Tower and Spire will rise 128 feet into the air over the Hobart green to dominate the campus scene. CONVOCATION AND CONSECRATION OF SAINT MARK’S TOWER Late in the afternoon on October 24, at a special assembly in the traditional commencement tent on the Hobart Green in front of Coxe Hall, Senator Keating told his audience that Hobart and William Smith Colleges face as great a challenge today as they did on the day the doors of Geneva Academy opened. Climax of the Convocation was reached when President Hirshson conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Humani- ties (L.H.D.) upon Bishop Lichtenberger, and the degree of. Doctor of Laws (L.L.D.) upon Senator Keating. 22
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