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the best possible under the trying circumstances. With this explanatory state- ment, we begin with the first on the roll. Holmes Davenport Baker entered the class in its Freshman Year. Nineteen years ago he was born in Frederick, and with the exception of a few year ' resi- dence in Baltimore and Buckeystown, has lived there ever since. As a boy Billy was fond of mother earth and her productions, especially of grass. One day while out walking with his uncle, he said, "Uncle Charley, want to see me eat grass like a hort," and with this he hurled himself on the ground and began to nibble grass, as he supposed, but Uncle Charley had to pull some thistles out of Billy's upper lip as a consequence, and he has had no aspirations to be like a "hort" since. Perhaps, though, those who know him best will contradict this statement, knowing the aspirations of his Senior Year. Billy is known throughout the State as a football player and feared accord- ingly. He was elected captain of the team in '97 and again in '98. He played full-back and his loss to the team will, no doubt, be a great one. The two requi- sites for a successful football player are a big, hard head and big feet, especially the latter. Billy has both. He can also sing well. When at his best his notes are strangely like unto pathetic strains proceeding from a bullfrog on a cloudy night, or from a lowing he-cow knee deep in mire. Two things he says he will have as soon after graduation as possible, namely-a wife and a moustache. Three efforts for the latter have failed, and a continued effort bas caused four failures in the former, with two still pending. May the innermost desires of his heart be granted. The home of Ida Evelyn Briley is in East New Market, Md. She entered College as a Freshman and has continued uninterrupted in her course of learning. She is what the boys call a bright-light. One branch of her work she has accom- plished well, and in which she has made a great record. Students by the score have fallen victims to her charms, and it was whispered a few years ago that even professors were want to do homage to her. However this may be, we know that she has many friends among her opposite sex. The only child-she is now twenty-she has been accustomed to do pretty much as she pleased, and everyone knows' what that means. She will have her own way or-or well, she usually gets it. She is called "Reddy" by girls-boys dare not-and it .takes no theories to account for this title either-it is perfectly evident. She has the auburriest hair that it has ever been your historian's luck to see. White horses are usually associated with such-in this case they are 44