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Valedictory. ~ UR college course is over. Our work as a class is done. As Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior, we have lived and worked together on College Hill. Friendships have been formed, associations have been made. The most impressionable part of our lives has been stamped with the seal of Western Maryland. Every corner of the buildings, every angle of the campus has acquired especial significance. The com- panions of our college days have woven themselves into the very woof of our lives. We have had vacations. We have been glad to leave the familiar scenes and even the old faces for a season. But this-this is dif- ferent, this is farewell. We are going away, not to return, grumbling, perhaps, but in reality glad to get back to the life and to the friends that have become almost indispensible; no we are going away to come back-never. We can scarcely realize what it means. Don't you think we mind it? Not easily broken are ties of coHegelife. Not easily forgotten are the friends of our work, of our play, of our joy, of our sorrow. The plant of long growth is separated from its Mother Earth only with the greatest difficulty. Rooted by four years of growth to Western Maryland, it is only with pain and sorrow that we tear ourselves away from our old life. Yet to all things earthly there must come an end. Friends, however dear, must part. Ties of college association and companionship, however dose, must be broken. We cannot always remain here, we would not if we could. But the parting is none the less hard. The farewell is none the less sad. But why prolong the pain? We must part. And so to you, our coHege,we say fare- well. Our school mates, farewell. Our classmates, to you a last sad farewell. 86