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Ilisto'ry of £Iass of 1901. Rickety, rackety, rah! rah! ree! Rickety, rackety, who are we ~ SUlliUS fortissimi et nobilissimi, 1901, 1901, siss! boom! bee! UST as every nation, organization and corporation, guided by the hand of destiny, passes through the regular routine of rise, decline and fall, so each ] of them has found it essential to its welfare to keep a record of its career. Therefore it is but natural for us to regard the history of a class as nothing out of the ordinary, but rather as a part of the class and as something common- place. But we are proud to say that this is not true of the history which we now have the privilege of recording. For we here draw your attention to a class sur- passing all its predecessors, the largest ever known at Western Maryland, and one whose star will ever shine forth the 1110stbrilliant in the geni-strewn diadem of our Alma Mater. And now let us turn back for a moment and notice the progress of this great class during the past year. Rejoicing in the name OIfSophomores, we returned in September filled with new zeal and determined to surpass our past excellent record. Soon, however, we discovered that there were five classes in our col- legiate departments-the fifth, a large class of seventeen, we found desiring to join ur ranks and to call themselves Sophomores. Of course we gladly wel- comed this large addition to our class, and with our forces joined into one united class, we will go down upon the records as reaching a number which has never been approached by any class in the Sophomore Year-fifty-three. Indeed, so many did we enroll that on the boys' side four halls were required to hold us. In due time we elected our officers, and we are glad to say that foe integrity, determination, zealousness and those other qualities which go to make up a great leader, our choice could have fallen upon no more fitting man than he whom we have chosen our president. The Freshmen, as Freshmen will do, soon challenged us to meet them in athletics, and we gladly took advantage of the gridiron to teach them a lesson. Galled by their defeat, the brutes resolved to obtain vengeance by securing a garb for their effigy. Suffice it to say, we foiled every legal attempt which they made, and we did this 'longer than had any clas before us. And only illegally and by methods pursued only by brutes was their aim finally reached. The way in which the trousers and ve t were secured has been pronounced 89