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IlUlebster $ociet\? .. .. .. ROGRESS is the index to a successful career. It always P represents patient labor combined with enthusiastic ambition. And we can find no more fitting applica- tion of this word than when it is applied to the work of Webster Literary Society during the past year. "Ve believe that never since 1871, the date of its birth, has the society experienceda marc profitable year. The debates on the whole have been interesting and instructive. The great battles engaging the attention and the skill of our statesmen and philosophers have been fought out in Webster Hall. And the discussions, usually dry and uninteresting, have been made attractive and at times intensely exciting. Beginning our career for this year in a new hall, we have "worked steadily on. Largely through the unselfish efforts of those who left us with last year's graduating class, the hall has been furnished and put in a much improved condi- tion. A careful revision of the constitution ancl a stringent enforcement of the rules has placed the society upon an un- usually sound basis. The annual entertainment was given in union with the Philomathcan Society on the tweuty-seco?d of February This was the first entertainment of the kind ever given in Alumni Hall, and the success of it was unexpectedly good, the societies being hampered by severe restrictions placed upon them by the Faculty. Prom a financial standpoint also the anniversary was eminently successful. The society libra0' has been well" used, and due advantage has been taken by the members of the periodicals subscribed for by the society. This is an important feature of literary "work. Now with the past year's good record behind LIS, let Webster ever press forward true to her motto "Adhuc FilrO." -:-124 'i-