Page 116 - YB1896

filstory of '99. O N nine rqth and women, of September, sections thirty of the young country, men packed '895, 15th and the yO\1ng in different trunks, bade their College. Maryland ones at and home with and heavy took hearts and leave sad for faces Western farewell to the dear On the t nth, a bright September day, they arrived in Westminster, and were kindly directed to the college members of the higher classes. Soon after their arrival at college. the hell rang for dinner, and they at once marched into the room of "strap and lubricator,' and various other articles of substantial food, with smiles for dessert. And some-cot course very few- seemed to lay more stress upon the dessert than anything else. This habit of smiling of course the '99's caught from the higher classes, as boys and girls will copy after older persons; but it seems that the habit has grown so strong with some of the '99'S that they will never overcome it as long as they are at \'V. !I'I. C. The next day this same body of young people assembled in the female study-hall to stand examinations for entrance to the Freshman class. Although the writer was, at that time, an entire stranger among them, he looked around over the crowd and noticed that the faces of some were a great deal brighter and more cheerful than others. He afterward found that the sad-facer! ones were those who were away frOI11 their homes for the first time, and did not yet realize what it is to be away from" mamma." This homesickness, however, rapidly wore away, and they were soon one of the happiest and most cheerful set of boys and girls on College Hill. They are not only bright-eyed and cheerful faced, but they are considered by all as being bright intellectually. Their re- ports for this year show that they rank as high in grades as any class of \V. :M. College. In fact, the whole school was led by a '99 for a greater part of the year. They are also strongly represented in every worthy movement that is undertaken all College l-lill. In athletics, both all the field and in the gym- nasium, they are unsurpassed. As members of the Orchestra, the Banjo Club, the Glee Club and the Choir they show quite an amount of musical talent. As members of the different societies the '99's are always ready to do their part; and as members of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. V'l. C. A. they are ever faithful to their trust. The higher classes accuse the '99's, both in Smith Hall and in Ward Hall, of being the noisest class in college, but the writer has observed that the noise . made in Ward Hall by the '99's is almost invariably during hours of recitation,