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WILLIAM GOOCH SIMPSON ...........•...........................................• Westminster, Md. Webster Literary Society. After a two years trial of the Class of !903 "Simp" decided that our class was more to his tastes and joined the ranks of !904. Needless to say, we received him with open arms, as we had already found him to be a jolly good fellow and worthy of all men of accept ion. His record among us has not been so much brilliant as uniformly good. The only one of the boys who lives in town, we have spent many pleasant hours at his home, and can thank his hospitality for numerous rifts among those clouds of college through which we saw the sun once more. As an all-round athlete, Simpson is perhaps the first among us. He can playa game of basket-ball which few college men can equal. His specialty however is base ball. For two years, captain of the college team he has served his Alma Mater well upon the diamond and won a record of which he is justly proud. "Simp" never played much foot ball, yet, when he did go out, he easily made the first team. His probability as to a life work equals x, Yet we might add, we have reasons to believe that his posstbtlittes are great. Among the ladies, "Simp" is a general favorite. Whenever he sees the picture of a maiden who is dark, slender, tall, and yielding his first remark never fails to be "That's my woman fellows. That's what I call a man." BESSIE BRADLEY SLOAN Lonaconing, Md. Browning Literary Society. From the thriving city of Lonaconing, which is situated in a valley between the numerous moun- tains of Alleghany County, came the bonnie Scotch lassie, Bessie Sloan in the year !90L She was greatly surprised when she came to W. M. C. and found no coal mines there; and so much did she talk about the wonders of the mines at Lonaconing, that her classmates named her "Miner." As soon as she entered the college, she began her duties as a Sophomore, working industriously and has continued doing so ever since. She was one of the famous rivals of Sheridan and Sellman in German and English. Some days these ladies would take the whole period, in answering questions for Professor Wills, but "Bess" always excelled the other two in brevity and clearness? "Bess" is one of the '04 pianists, and is a special favorite of Sampaix, who told her she played like a Freshman, but we all know that this is not so for she plays very well. As I have said before, "Bess" has been an industrious student, but she always took one hour to sleep and an hour and a half to write to Irwin every night, from whom she always received a letter in the morning, and amused us at the breakfast table by talking of Irwin and his wonderful doings. 45