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Our New €lecti"e Course. rmiESTERN IVIARYLANDis ever abreast with the times. Upon seeing Ill! in the" Sun," of April 24, 1902, an account of a newly created Col- lege in Tennessee designed to teach "courting," and to confer upon completion of a definite course the Degree of Doctor of Love, "Heap Big Chief" Lewis, thinking of the most favorable conditions for such a course at Western Maryland, issued a call to his trusty council to convene in special session the same afternoon. Promptly at 2:30 P. M., the great "Council of Modem Red Men" met. I11 a few well chosen words" Heap Big Chief" outlined the plan of the new course in Love at Wester-nMaryland, and then asked from the other "Councillors of the Tribes" their opinion upon the proposed change in the Curriculum. "Big Baby" Watts suggested that the boys and the girls meet from dismissal-from supper to the" study "(?) bell. At this point" Pow-Wow Medicine Man" Holton said that he favored the change, as the students would be anxious to get out from supper, hence would eat less, and then he could take 1110retrips to Baltimore and give his " Papoose" a bicycle. And in favorable sounds the Bcl1(e)srang out->" Nor I catch cold while learning a modern Romeo and Juliet conversation-close my window dur- ing the midnight hours." But just-a-little-Mtojore-." While I was at V. M. I. an epidemic broke out, and if the boys and girls meet too often I fear a Love epidemic here." "Sic 'em, 'I'owscr;" shouted the Council. Here" Heap Big Chief" saw his plans would be frustrated if he allowed the Council to indulge in debate, and so put the motion and it was carried. So the boys and girls were to meet on the College porch in the evenings instead or in the Library once a month. "Eagle-Eye Bill" suggested they meet ('I'CI], evening, but here" Big Baby" Watts cried because he said on Wednesday evening the Christians must attend religious meetings. Every knee bent in adoration as "Totem. Pole" Wills entered and began: "I, YOl1rDivinity, am tired of teaching the boys and girls English 179