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

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Hftlbrl'vii- ! Senator Keating and President Hirshson Chaplain Crump chants the Litany at the Convocation and Consecration. Directly in front of Chaplain Crump is the Reverend Norman A. Remmell, Rector of St. Peter’s Church in Geneva. To the far right is Reverend Edward C. Rorke, Rector of Trinity Church, Geneva.

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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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The Litany procession moves towards the site of St. Mark’s Tower.