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Introduction. ;!.: Cb~ C~s~nd011M " cmck-a-sc-runk." [ClH~REKT, A. D., 2500.] There was at Western Maryland College, Far back in ye olden time, A class who wished to record their deeds 111 pictures, in prose, and in rhyme. they elected a staff, and girls were they, have charg-e of the work to be done And the expenses prepare to defray. These boys and girls, as we have said, Went to work with a will, And although the road over which they must go Was 1110St all the way up hill, There was courage and vigor in every heart, For were brave lasses and lads So they a meeting and out a plan For the literary work and the But there was needed yet something more To make the book a Sllccess~ It must have as a name a single word, Which would its contents express. They scratched their heads and thought in vain, They read till their eyes were sore; They sought in mythological tales- In the books of ancient lore.