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jfresbman. The year of 1896 was eventful in the lives of many, and especially in the lives of those who then decided to add to their incomplete training the polish from a college course. In that year, and perhaps before that; flashing hopes and bright prospects would loom up before the minds of many wishful youths, and as a result of these a crowd of boys and girls from different parts of the country arrived at Westminster in the fall of '96 ready to take a course at W. iVI. C. This crowd, with a few persons who were already at the college, was to form itself into the Class of 1900. Here was a crowd of young people destined to do wondrous things-and to "get done," by the Faculty, of course; a crowd which, though small in number, was destined to undermine some of the fuudarnental principles of the institu- tion, and to be the cause of the change of some of those things which had even been" the custom for thir-ty years!" But as promising a crowd as this was, it was at its en- trance into college a 1110stconglomerate band of young people, representing different sections of the country, and displaying diverse temperaments and ideas. It is only ...von~ derfu l that a crowd of people reared under so different cir- cumstances, and manifesting so many different facts of human nature, should form themselves into a harmonious, systematic, and orderly body. Here were some from the country who had always been used to the open, balmy air, which didn't fail to have its effect 011 them when they came to college-for the air was fresh. Here were others from some isolated districts which had not the advantages of a polished and elegant life,and were, to use a new expression, a little" green;" and some. indeed, were so ver-y"green" that they would hardly smoke-but they soon learned how after being here awhile. Others had always been reared in luxury, and had always lived on the" fat of the land," but -:-48 +-