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his heart, and even then he'd come back. He told a joke once when the boys were eating ice cream, grapes, apples and so forth, and has had the deadwood on them ever since. It was truly funny. Barber shops have been paying institutions on College Hill. Grand-Pa started one in his Sophomore Year, and the next year, business being so pressing, he took in a partner. This partnership is still in existence and the firm is 'rapidly becoming rich, or else not. In consequence of his business he has also become a banker, but he is liable to become banked at any time. He was president of the Young Men's Christian Association for a year and was one of Webster's winning orators in '98. When Claude Cicero Douglas entered College, he did so as a member of the Sub-Fresh Class, but, being dissatisfied, he made up the work of that class in one term, and by Christmas went one step higher and joined the Freshman Class. Colonel, the name bestowed upon him by his classmates, came from the mountainous districts of West Virginia-Montrose. He has come in contact with a grea.t deal of the world, and comes to us with a head full of experience. He says he used to teach school. We can see him now standing very erect, his square shoulders well thrown back, his eyes ablaze, and with the rod of correc- tion in his hands. How those children must have trembled. He says he never had any trouble with them, and no wonder. It is said that even his room-mate here in College is afraid of him. No man in College has had more success as a student than has the Colonel. He has been the leader of his class every term since his entrance, and graduates as the valedictorian. Twice has he been one of Webster's winning orators, and in his Senior Year was chosen as the representative of the College in the inter- collegiate oratorical contest and won it. But the Colonel won't eat raw oysters. He argues that they are alive, notwithstanding that the heart has been cut-and he just will not cat live oysters. There is something else wrong with the Colonel, too- "He has no hair on tbe top of his head, .D~ place where de wool ought to grow." 48