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selves to challenge the interest of the outside worlel. 'What the world mainly sees and judges by is buildings and other results; causes and processes lie hidden from its view. From sickness and death the college has always been exceptionally free; the perfect system of stealll"heating and the abundant supply of water furnish ample security agaiust fire; its lofty situation, far away from streams, renders damage frOI11 flood an impossibility, but against the powers of the air the best of human precau- tions are feeble. On Sunday evening, the rqth of February last, at half-past nine, a wind storm of unprecedeuted violence swept over 'Westminster and tore the roof from Smith Hall. The young ladies, happily, received no injury, aud were promptly quartered for the night in the society rooms and library. The damages wrought by the cyclone were SOOl1 repaired, but it took a thousand dollars, which the treasury could ill spare, to do it. "The history of a college," it has been truly said, "is best read ill the lives of her sons. '1'0 take in the grand sweep of her influence, we must follow them as they go forth into the world to mould and direct the elements that surround them." Western Maryland College is willing to have ker history thus read. Nearly two thousand boys and girls have been under her fostering care, and, including the class of '<)3, two hundred and ninety-two students have graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 1'0 these, her SOliS and her daughters, she can proudly point and, like the Roman matron, exclaim: '