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For four years we have struggled, failed, and succeeded side by side. During this time friendships have been formed, broken and renewed. Pleasures have been ours, which shall ever bind in those subtle ties which only death can break. Our deeds, our words are written in each comrades heart in letters bright as fire and come what may, their future as wen as ours must bear witness to their association with us. The past is gone, and gone forever. Perhaps in the light of the present we look back and wish some things differ- ent, but our history as students of Western Maryland CoHegeis written in characters as indelible as eternity itself. And yet, although the story cannot now be changed, although each thought, each act, each word must bear its own peculiar fruit; stlll its lessons are ours to use or neglect as we may choose. Then let us not sit down to vain regrets, but, schooled in the experience of the past, let us go forth dauntless and to conquer. For:- On the dizzy heights of fame, You will never find a name, Whose possessor has not striven, Who has not his best thought given, How each failure of the past Might insure success at last. Then surely:- Howe'er often you may stumble On the steep incline of IHe, You shall have no cause to grumble If that stumbling wins the strlfe. But let us turn to the record which has been prepared for your scrutiny. We have endeavored to treat each in an impartial manner and we feel confident that whatever may be the nature of the numberless other faults you may find in this record, each one must admit its fairness toward all. If the record pleases you, rest assured your historian shares that pleasure. But H in any respect you feel slighted remember that we can only judge for ourselves, however wiHing we may be to see through other peoples eyes. Now for the findings of the court. 34