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PAUL CULLER WHIPP ...........•................................................ Frederick, Md. Webster Literary Society. Last but not least (nay! perhaps the ablest) man among us is Paul Culler Whipp. Coming from the historic hills of old Frederick this mighty advocate of peoples rights entered our class at the beginning of the Sophomore year. Quiet and undemonstrative as he is, it was some time before this genius made his presence felt. But when his true worth was known, his popularity was unbounded. In rapid suc- cession he was elected, class poet, foot ball manager, Editor-in- Chief of the College Monthly, and Editor of the Aloha of 1904. Besides all this, his clear logic and unaffected style soon won him recogni- tion as an orator of ability. And although he has never represented his society in her oratorical con- tests, yet he tied for first place in the inter-collegiate preliminaries of his Junior year. This is a high honor, to say the very least of it. "A still tongue makes a wise head" has a strong influence on Paul and he is a good example of its truth. Paul's time is so well taken up that he has little time for hob- bies. In the Junior year he used to take an occassional balloon ascension. (That is whenever a certain young lady's name was mentioned.) But later he seems to have discarded this mode of recreation, even. Then all one ever saw of him do was "to take "Boose" out for an airing" and then hurry back to work! work! work! GEORGE LEROY WHITE " Princess Anne, Md. Webster Literary Society. "When first the rosy fingered Aurora" rolled back the clouds of mist that enshrouded the Atlantic coast and danced across the sands of old Worcester to smile upon the countenance of a certain infant man; there it was that the mist-laden air was rent in twain by the vociferous shouts of a possible(?) Daniel Webster, whose parents unknowingly called him G. L. White. After this young hyena had de- veloped his lung power to an enormous degree his fellow-countrymen, feeling that patience had long since ceased to be a virtue, met in popular assembly with a unanimous voice decided "That said G. L. White be transported bag and baggage to that place renowned for unbounded patience, Western Mary- land College." Thus it was that on a fine September morning in the year 1900, the reverberating walls of Ward Hall announced the arrival in our midst of, The one, of all men, loudest; And, of his voice, the proudest Of any freaks, whose Roman beak Has roared within these halls. After some discussion we finally elected him class president with the hope that responsibility might somewhat tame him. A1as! the hope! We next sent him on the gridiron and even here he stamped and roared. (You couldn't blame a team for making no gains around his end, could you?) But its an ill . wind which blows no man good. And so in this case; despite his patience-trying noise, the evil wind which blew us this pest did not leave some marked abilities behind. As an elocutionist, "G. L." has captured two medals. As a scholar he mixes with the first. As a Christian worker we need no better proof of his ability than to cite the fact than he was elected president of the Y. M. C. A., in his Junior year. 48