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PAGE TWO The Gold Bug, Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md. iAii!1tnry nf lII!Il'!1tl'rtt \ 1Jutl'r-QInlll'giutl' ]lJuril'tl! ~aryluull NI'lt1!1 A REVIEW OF BOOKS, PLAYS AND LIFE (Note: A series of historical sketches We eee by the "Bucknerlian" that the of Western Maryland College will be Bueknel l debaters will have a forensic Another Victorian Reappears published in this eorumu for the next skirmish with the Oxford University From time to time we have had the few weeks. The first article of this tenm. "Beat 0' Luck," Bucknell! oceasiou to point to sometlling like a Official newspaper of Western :Maryland College, published on Thursday during series follows.» gradual revival of interest in and ap- the academic year by the students of Western Maryland College, Westminster, III the Trinity College "Pripod" ep- preciation of the authors of the period Maryland. Entered as second-class matter at the Westminster Postoffiee. ORIGIN OF WESTERN MARYLAND pears t'lria view of the two outstanding called Victorian. Thorc was, of course, Subscription Price, $2.00 a Year COLLEGE presidential candidates, Mr. Hoover and a day when it was fashionable among It is hard to visualize College Hill "Mr. Smith. large groups of readers to regard any without Western Maryland College on "Two men equally lacking ill ideals, mun belonging to that era, however 1\'TANAGTNG STAFF it; yet a little over sixty years ago it both susceptible to indust.rial and com- massive or important, as simly a ease Editor-in-Chief .. . .... Casper P. Hart, '29 was just a wocdlnnd-eovcred hill like mercial enfranchisement, are, never-the- those which we see everywhere around less, better qualifled for the position of Managing Editor .. . .Joseph L. Mathias, Jr., '29 uS now. There was always something President than the average suceessfnl Asst. Managing Editor. .Edwin Warfield, '29 different about our Hill, however. From candidate has been. It seems to follow the first, it had a more intimatc eon- quite naturally that much squabbling Business Manager . .Paul Bates, '31 tact with people than any of its neigh- nnd mud·slinging be brought into the Asst. Business Manager ... J. Hammett Simms, '29 bors. It was a favorite spot for pte- machinery. One has resorted to the em· Advertising Manager . .Marvin B. Sterling, '30 uics; strolling lovers found it an en· ploying of clubs, enurches, organiza various old organs; Circula.tion Manager . . .. Roy L. Robertson, '29 elmnting and place for to hear long "loves' nearly sweet all tions, lias and blurted out other his attacks in his tI,e other time song"; a James A. Stach, '30 public poltica l assemblies of the eom- own straightforward manner. One np- Asst. Circulation Managers. . .. Thomas Braun, '30 munity, with Democrat pitted fiercely peals to the so-called perfect English { against each other. were held on the speaking public, and the other talks Leslie Grover, '30 Hill. Some see that our college wag with the average man on the street." as a power in his own day, he Art Editor .. . "Pete" Gomsak, '3'0 built on a green hill that was not real W:lS held to be tlre very symbol of a Sports Editor .. . . . .L. G. Ekaitis, '3.1 ly a "green" hill . Voting has been called a privilege. It UlflWki8h scutimcntality, a shallowness For many years before 1865, West·. is more than that. It is a duty. For of and a Iongwlnd- REPORTORIAL S'rAFF minster had been a center of education- _rour own nnd Fcr-f.he good of Lhe t o fhia gener- News Editors al interests, and several prtvatc aca nation, and community in which And ",v. G. Eaton, '30 Margaret Mar tiguoni, '29 demies town. of a Mr. high Fayettc grade R. flourished wlJO in you live, are you ought and to vote. will some you, who educated, day Buell, the moved to Westminster from New York apart of responsibility in the life that ill one of them-an interpretive Associate Editors Statu and opened an academy for boys community, should feel that biogr:tph~' wisel~' find rightly passing Mary WaIzI, '29 Curvin M. Seitz, '29 and was tho first person to con- a very special obligation in- as II fiction-he is not n hero in the Edith Kinkead, '29 Roy C. Chambers, '29 ccivc idea of enlarging his school cumbent upon you to voice your senti- sense t ha t Dickens himself understood Evangeline Lathem, '29 Charles E_ Rensch, '29 into a eo-cducutionnl college. The idea n1('nt in the conduct of the nation. Ii heroes. But it is significant that of was just. about all that Mr. Buell did vou, who are schooled in tbe matters the three books this one has received Reporters IUn-e; for he lacked the means, the ex- of government, disdain yonr right to the notices and the least sym- and the substantial support vote, what. arc we to of those jluthy reviewers. One of the other Virginia Merrill, '30 Hoy T. Edwards, '31 arc essential elements iu found· who come under the of il· yolumes is a neW edition of the famous Sara Freeman, '29 Roby Day, '29 literate! -The Fordluun Halll. by the Helen G. Dennis, '29 C. E. Funk, '29 ing a college. He was not content, and the vanish to like Catherine Heed, '30 Jnckson "\V. Day, '3] howevcr, pipe·drenm, let his but idea earnestly tried an to Immaturity in rare cases means a third is a short~>r and vigorous biog idle 'l'hehna Reid, '30 Paul IIoward, '29 get othcrs interested in helping him to permanent illcapti'eity for growth; but, based on "new sources." Elizabeth Clough, '30 f'llll"cnce W. Koochogcy, '32 mnterializc his hopes. In February, as applie{l to eollege youth today, it not our purpose here to compare Dorothy Johnson, '29 Brancll Phillips, '3G mny mean that the moral and intellec these books or to consider them, sa,·c Grace Armstrong, '30 Wilmcr V. Bell, '30 1866, l,e called together a meeting of tual snp is flowing freely and it is yet as possible further indications of a re· Helen Wheeler, '29 -William Bro"'n, '30 some members llnd friends of the Methodist Protestant Church, with ulll"<:-strieted by those tougher fibre~ awakening to the importance of the whidl l,e W cd by strallgers, lIlany times they fail the loan ,,"as nnpaid, and tI,e propert~' 11etlJOdist Protestant Chutch. The col· ill the Museo della Villa, and is only hnman, yet interesting withal. The was covered with mechanics liens. At planni:lg other investigations. In phrase "free and eqnal" is thonght up to enter into the cheer. If tickets were this when the outlook was ao lege received its eh!t.rter Oil "March 30, America, photographs have been made 1868. 801d in a. manner to insure that all stu· Conferenee decided to take Thus Western Maryland Col· of the pri"ate collections of Albert Gal· on !Ind found to be contrary to laws of dents sit togetlter, the spirit so evident a in preventing an utter failure was ellabled to open its second ses lit an, New York City, and of the late nature aud man. Audiences no longer albeit unrler unfavorable .6.nan· swallow without tllOUght all that the in the pep meetings could be obtained of the plan. AccordiHgly, thirty·three Joseph Clark Hopkin, of Han'ani Uni speaker has to say upon his subjeet. in the stadium, men were incorporated by the Maryla.nd circumstance3, versity.