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There are many points of interest in its struggle and many acts and achieve- ments worthy to be reckoned in the measure of its success that will have to be omitted in this short sketch. All of this country lying between the P. 'vV. & B. Railroad and the Blue Ridge-the principal geological divide in Maryland and the most important topographical feature of this section-is known as Parr's Ridge. The elevation at the end of Westminster, on a beautiful knob of this Ridge, is known as ALUlHNI HALL. "College Hill." A better place for a College could never have been selected. In the midst of a country of fine scenery and great fertility, with the picturesque Blue Ridge conspicuous in the western horizon, with air pure and invigorating, the site chosen for the College is certainly one of marked adaptation and unsur- passed loveliness. On this spot, which has now become classic, the sixth of September, r866, Prof. James W. Reese, master of Door-to- Virtue Lodge of Freemasons, assisted 24