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with v e ry slight modifications from the report published in the Geneva Daily Tim es. The twelfth dinner of the Hobart College Alum n i Association w a s held at t h e University club o n Fifth avenue Tuesday evening, January i A b o u t one hundred men gathered around the well laden table a n d whooped i t up for Old Hobart. Grey heads were well scattered among the younger ones, but there was no age in the enthusiasm— it was th e enthusiasm of youth. The grey heads greeted each other with slaps on the back and bear hugs that must have started the blood of th e ir college days flowing through their veins. As one old classmate m e t another h e would say, “ D o you remember the day, etc.,” and so the question went on round the tables during the whole evening, and the reminiscences that were engendered were sweet with the mellowness of time. Songs that were dear to them in their college days rang out here a n d there during the evening. One pleasant touch w a s the s in g ing at on e table o f “ Solomon Levi,” a song written by W itt D a v is, Hobart ’ 8 1 , and which has for years been sung in every college from coast to coast and claimed b y many as their own. Between the courses of the dinner the Hobart Quartette, which accompanied D r. Steward son to New York, showed how songs are sung in Hobart now. D r . S t e w a r d s o n ’ s A d d r e s s . The toastmaster was Jones Armstrong of the class o f ’55. He called first on D r. Langdon C. Stewardson, president of H obart. Dr. Stewardson’s speech was full of the inspiring movement and vigor which is so characteristic. H e said that this banquet was the high w a ter mark, but he felt sure not the culmination o f the alumni movement. He told of the spreading and growth of th e movement from th e germ a t Geneva, to Rochester, to Buffalo, and finally to New York. \W e have come down to New Y o rk , not as a political party, t o be made o r wiped out, but to be received and united in one party to make H obart what she should be— a great sm all college. And w h a t The Hobart Herald
