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SbarJ)s and flats. I to give a history suggests perhaps it is that and this such article an inference is going title F the above of the college; of the is 110t, tit17 sug- 011. the But .while whole, gests musical affairs and an incorrect one. we think that the for whole I1l1l$IC and 0111' for this year the first of the is mere suggestive than the la st ; for this at least, has abounded 1110re ill sharps than in flats, more or in short, as Mr. Micawber would we have successful year. Of course, the great crown- ing event of the year [rom our if not [rom that of our audiences, was the Christmas trip-the first ever by the Western Maryland Col- lege music clubs-during which we that were sometimes overflowing and and 011 which we paid all our expenses and managed in fact to get back sufficient surplus to buy our music for the rest of the year. But before we tell you about the crowning event of the year, let 115 go back to the beginning. When in September, seven of our "old" men were back: Messrs. Freeny. Nelson, Revelle and Mather. and Professors Crockett and Black'. At the first meeting of the year, Professor Black was elected president, and Mr. Freeny secretary and treasurer; and 'it was decided to inaugurate a new in regard to the election of new mem- bers. Heretofore men have been 0\1( in a haphazard fashion. that some- times gave us good material and sometimes very poor material; when they were elected to membership nobody had any very definite idea whether they could really sing or not. This year we have said that any mall with any ability or 13.1