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good student, but for sickness. Unfortunately very often when the class had to recite in philosophy, Mr. Lakin would b~ absent, dreadfully from a severe cold, contracted by attending church the previous Although such a regular attendant at church, his morals have been ruined by the of ethics, and from a firm believer in several different theories of the end, he become a confirmed skeptic. The daughter of the President of Western Maryland College, Miriam Lewis was born in Baltimore, but when young her residence was changed to Westminster. No one has more than she to be called a thorough Wester-n student, for she has been to this institution for just ten years, and one of the few that never any other school. Though an excep- tionally good student in all the branches taught here, she has paid particular attention to, and made great progress in the of elocution. To her classmates she has been of assistance, especially her Junior and Senior years, in relieving them from all unnecessary for she has always kept them notified whenthere would be 110 philosophy. \Ve feel that we cannot bring her history to a close without mentioning the fact that though not the first, she had a desperate case with one of her own class during the first term of her Senior year, but after the first term's examina- tions were over, the" strike" was declared off on the young man's finding out that her father hadn't passed him in Hebrew. Although now a resident of Seaford, Del., William Orion Livingston came originally from Salisbury. His age is somewhat doubtful, but may be placed approximately sorncwhen, between twenty-two and thirty. In a conversation with him on one occasion, he told LIS confidentially that the first recollection he had of himself was that 11e was in a public school, getting off primitive puns, and if we may be pardoned for trespassing on the territory of the Pythia of '96, we will wager that some far-fetched pun will be the cause of his death. He has been called the" silver tongued orator" of '96, and indeed has bee» known to talk three hours on a stretch without saying anything. But what 11<15 rendered him most famous is the establishment of a barber shop ncar the begin- ning of his Senior year, in Room 145, Hering Hall. This room has become a favorite resort for all classes; and one may see there at any time some boys en- gaged in smiling at an opposite window, some in philosophic discussion, usually