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as§ is+crvj cind R roplicev ?T ' WAS not so very long ago ; only four years ; and yet it seems much longer to us ; since we began our course at the college, a lot of green and unsophisticated Freshmen, unacquainted with bedslats as weapons of offense, and unac- quainted with the customs and habits of that crowd of dignified individuals whom we soon learned were the Sophomores. Experience is the best, if also the most severe, of all teachers, and e ' er long we began to look upon that gang of brutes, (as we then considered them) as being hardly fit to be classed among civilized beings. We thought that it had come to an issue and that the biological law relating to the Sur- vival of the Fittest would surely be most appli- cable to our class. It was painful in the extreme to be obliged to rise from our comfortable cots in the dead of night, and address a crowd of persons who were masked beyond recognition, meanwhile suffering all the torture that a strong arm, with a bedslat at the end of it, could inflict. Some of our members had, it is true, suffered all this the previous year, in the Preparatory Department ; but that feeling of class fellowship, which has always been a noticable char- acteristic of our class, made it hard for them to see their fellows mistreated. All things com e round to him who will but wait is an old adage, and when the September of another year rolled around, we found ourselves as dignifled and as overbearing as our predecessors had been, and woe to the vile and verdant Fresh- man who dared to cross our path. New faces appeared among us that year, Gardiner, Lewis, Heward, Posey, Queen, Welty and Dorsey were added to our list. 27
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Gardiner, we are sorry to say, being afflicted with weak eyes, was obliged to leave us early in the year, leaving behind him many friends. That year was not particularly eventful for us in any respect. The various studies with which we had to deal were laboriously passed over, and many were the sighs of relief when, examinations over, we dispersed to our homes for the summer vacation. But more numerous than the sighs of relief at vacation, were the sighs of sorrow drawn from us at the news of the death of our class mate, Richard Luke Dorsey. Completing his course in the Sophomore year to the perfect satisfaction of every one, with life and all its promises bright before him, he was stricken down during the summer of ' 95 by lightning. We do not like to refer to this painful subject, yet we owe it as a tribute of respect to his parents and friends, and to his spotless character. We, as his friends and class mates will ever hold him dear in our memory, and the name of Dorsey will evtr be tenderly revered by us. One new face greeted us in our class-rooms upon our return, Weedon, of Baltimore, being the individual. Owing to various causes, too numerous to mention in detail, our number had now decreased to seventeen, and the roll of our class for that year was the same in every particular, that it is to-day. Calvert, Cronmiller, Gill, A. S., Gill. N. H., Graham, Heward, Lewis, Lindsay, Nelligan, Posey, Queen, Schenck, Sherman, Watkins, Weedon, Welty,White- ford. How easy it is to recite the roll by heart ! How firmly has each one impressed the others with his character ! Another nine months battle, another victory won, and when we returned the following autumn, all seventeen were present to answer to their names. Yes, we are proud of our record. Have we not the right to be, when, after so long and hard a struggle we have succeeded in bringing the entire class to graduation ? This year, like the rest, has been, in most particulars, without especial interest. Our fears and hopes have alternated in their rise and fall, but, as perseverance always wins, so we have at last won the race, and stand before you, a class of seven- teen, united in good feeling and class fellowship, ready to take ovir place before the world, to conquer coming difficulties. Calvert, of College Park, has been with us throughout our college course. His livliness and fun have been highly appreciated by us, and 28
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