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Webster Literary Society. NeE more the ever-encircling """round of years has completed a revolu- tion and another year of schola stic work is ended. Has it been a failure or a success? Have and time been wasted or used to good account? As Literary Society her members can one and all testify with a ready answer in the affirmative. For of all the organizations and lines of work open to the student at Western Maryland we consider the literary societies to be the most valuable, and the in them to be the most lasting and beneficial to the student when he shall have gone out to face the graver and more serious questions of life. Classics and sciences may be axioms and formulas leave no traces of their presence, but the to express one's self before public, and to convince and defend when upon the rostrum, or the seat of honor, are which go with us through life, and which always stand us in stead. Webster Literary Society stands ever ready to bestow these g-ifts upon whoever will take of the opportunities which she offers. And her sons scattered far and and achieving honor and distinction, look back with fond remembrances of the past upon the days spent in Webster Hall, and place r!ten: the beginning and foundation of their careers. Throughout the past year Webster has held her own, and gone on advancing in the good work in which she is engaged. Our debates have instructive and beneficial work. and the showing made by the under-classmen deserves especial comment. The and capacious haJI now occupied by the is a great advantage, the efforts made b) the members to furnish it the right direction. The members of Webster Literary Society, like those of all college never suffer from financial overflows, and all work done in the manner is neces- sarily somewhat handicapped. But we for better results in the future. Five have elapsed since the first entered 'Webster Literary Society, in that time success, marked and indelible, has crowned her efforts. Whether on the stage in public contest or in the hall, our beloved society has never swerved. Her star of destiny has ever carried her on to fame and making orators of stammering youths, and shedding a radiance of literary to all who come within the scope of her powers. And as a parting and certainly a heartfelt wish may I "Go on in thy good and noble work, 'may Fortune ever favor thee, when at last standing un- daunted and triumphant upon the threshold of time yet boldlv declare: AOHuc VIVO!" .