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Besides the religious exercises of the college proper, there arc branches of the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations, which conduct separate mid-week devotional services, and a joint ser- vice on Sunday afternoon. So the months glide by, and ere we realize that the year has well begun commencement is at hand, with its contests, its reunions, and its various exercises, all of which we must leave to be chronicled by another hand. To give, in the space devoted to the subject, any complete picture of our college is manifestly an almost hopeless task. But if tJ1C reader would catch a glimpse of a quiet spot where each hour has its duties, and where duties are rendered so pleasant as to seem almos tpleasur-es j where habits of regularity and thoroughness are unconsciously formed, and so thoroughly impressed upon the mimi as never to he forgotten-ifhe would inhale some fleeting fragrant breaths of such an atmosphere, let him take a journey to these balmy hills, and spend some days among the courts and corriders of West em Maryland College . . . 22 ..