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both sexes have been admitted ami have received the sallie degree at graduation. For both the course of study is nearly the s~1U'~. the difference being that the ladies take French instead of Oreek. The plan separate recitations, of sepa- rate residence, of moutbly receptions to the male students, or "parlor nights," iu the presence of teachers; in short all the regulations which provide for and safeguard the presence of both sexes in the school come down fr0111 the early days of Dr. Ward's control. The arraugemeur has been amply vindicated its success. In the twenty- six years during which young men and women been educated at western Maryland College, with a town at 110t from the usunl propensity to gossip, 110 whisper of scandal has been heard. Silence, surely, was never more eloquent. From the beginning, too, hazing was firmly sternly discouuteuanced, so that 110W it has become in the school to meet the new students with courteous welcome instead of the jocose brutality so often practiced elsewhere. Difficulties between" town and gowu," so common where most colleges exist, have never occurred here, and no case has ever been known in which complaint was lodged against a Western Maryland student for disorderly conduct within the corporate limits of Westminster. Under the fostering care of the faculty, early in the history of the college, the four literary societies now existing were organized, two, the Irving and the 'Webster for the young men, and two, the Browning and the Philomathean for the young women, and have always been regarded as valuable adjuncts to the regular academic course. The Irving was formed on the opening of the college, in September, ! 86 7 ; the Browning followed, in 1868; in 1871 the Webster came into existence, while the Philos date their anniversary from 188l. 1he presidency of Dr. Ward lasted froru the organizatiou of the college until Jnne, 18$6, when, at his own request, he was relieved of the duties he had so long, so faithfully and so ahlv performed, and transferred to the important, but less burden- some charge of the Westminster Theological Seminary. Few men living arc so widely known and so well beloved as the first president of Western Maryland College. Born in Georgetown, D. C., August er st, t Seo, of sterling English and Scotch stock, carefully educated, and always studious, he devoted him- self to the preaching of the Gospel, and From 18-11 to 1866, he led the life of a busy and useful pastor, at Philadelphia, Washington and other important points. Aduion. ished by failing health to abandon the arduous work of the itineranny Dr. Ward, in 1866, sought retirement and rest in a beautiful home which he had purchased in the western suburbs of Westminster. and thus, prcvideutiall y, he was on the spot, "the right man in the right place," when the college was first projected, became it'> first president, carried it safely through the times of early trial and handed it over to his successor an institution of learning solidly founded, widely and favorably known. The successor to Dr. Ward chosen by the trustees was Thomas Hamilton Lewis, who, as the org.al~iJ:er and fi.rst president of the Westminster Theological Seminary, had already exhibited execuuve talellts of a rare order. He was born near Dover, Delaware, December I rth , 18~z j graduated, with the highest honors, from Western Maryland College in 18 75 j entered the ministry of the I\'L P. Church j was stationed at (jurnherlaud , Md., for two years, and for the five years from rB77 to r882, filled ,8