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ing those of his more unfortunate contemporaries. The man who has furnished the class with milk, grapes, cherries and apples for four years is Horace Greeley Reese. Horace is a charter member of the class and has distinguished himself throughout his career as a student. His home is about two miles from Westminster, on a farm, and here he has kept up his home duties in addition to his studies. Great credit is due him when we think of this, and he no doubt has a bright future before him. His greatest ambition is to enter the Navy or Army. During our late war he applied for entrance into the Navy as gt1nner, but was unable to get such an appointment. The authorities knew that Greeley was cross-eyed and offered to make a common seaman of him, but this wasn't what he was looking for, so he declined, and is still Jiving in hopes that his desires will some day be realized. "Rube," as he is sometimes called, is only twenty-one years old, but he is wonderfully developed for that age, especially his feet-and the peculiarity of this is that he wears a ten shoe in winter and a twelve in summer, the size varying with the seasons. This is no joke, either. When anything of especial importance is going on during the summer, Greeley makes use of the ice-box. He has played football, too. For two years he has played right guard on the team, and right well did he guard his position, too. It was seldom indeed that when his sign was given to "open up" he didn't respond. In fact, Reese has got t.hat "push" about him that a person likes, and his success as a student and football player are only mani- festations of what he will do in the service of Uncle Sam. Vernon Norwood Ridgely hails from Eldersburg, Carroll County, Md. Twenty-five years ago he was born in Howard County, and from there he moved to his present home. It was in the fall of '95 that this wonderful piece of mechanism entered the Freshman Class. He came from Penington Seminary, where he had been a student for nearly a year, and was already a college student when he lodged his trunk in "Brute Hall." Impressions are hard to make sometimes, but Ridce ely p-ad no tro p ble in c », eati = g 0110'0 at th r.- very be o.oinuing-t...d at of r.;J =blo ~ er." . H 0'0 is about f ve feet fo p r inc,c es tall a::::d ~ eioe hs one hundred and veig.e teen po s n.-o s. For,..d is si N e he can "blow" more of what he is goi::i g to .-00 in t..c::e fi blJhti::i g Ii;::; e and create more disturbance to the square inch than any man in the class. Edison says of himself while crossing the ocean during a storm, that he was nearly driven mad when he saw such a waste of force. Had he seen our "blower" and been with him for only a few hours, he would to-day be a raving maniac. When Verny says 54