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THANKSGIVING SUPPER, AD a stranger entered the dining-room of Western Maryland College at 5:30 on Thanksgiving night, he would have ex- claimed, "Oh Western Maryland, happy art thou among col- ~ leges for thou hast surely solved the a erv a n t problem!" What did he see? Why, gr-acious, bowing young ladies, and gentle- men the most gallant,-twenty-six in all with the acknowledged Saratoga sweep, serving with delicacies the students of this favored college in a style that the Waldor-f Astoria would try in vain to imitate. More wonderful still, these same waiters and waitresses had that afternoon prepared, amid much laughter and brilliant repartee t~~o~fna;~e;!nblss:hl~~ StOhUe~d~h~~~ei:e~~!~~n~a:fr~~outh organ,) thei:-~lf~!~:::::lbe5:~ls a~~~~~fn;: fo~~~r~:dol~~~i~;~~a~~!a:id~ of the dining-room, and the boys a corresponding line on the other, while the teachers and Seminary students formed a third row down ;~; u:~di~l~~i; gthi~~IAi~~,isC~~~;;gS~Yh;~~~~f{j~S~~tda~~d'tt0:~~~1 thin,g in the way of a waiter-the two together almost hidmg his diminutive form, Fearnot, for he is followed by the above named Graces wearing much befr-illed and beribboned aprons and caps beyond the power of leaving the young ladies no other course to pursue but,-what do you think? However, this arrangement works admirably for the bewilder- ing dexterity ar:d rapidity of the waiters not onlyis able to satisfy quickly the desires of the inner man, but also gives the aesthetic ~a~r~I:~, ~h~~~t~~:;;n~~f:uSc~ ~~p~I~:n~I~!i:ell~~:~~eO!f~~.i;li but human and who can say how much the ever-ready tip, like the ~~~e;~:ni~~ff~~;;:s~~~~~~:;;I'e~f;,~~,idfy j!~:rt~\~'o~1h~\~cer~~s~~ Supper being over and the students having retired, these waiters f;;t:~eeseofs:m:~!r~~';t~d a~ee~~ i ~~lost!:-e;e~ubr:~;n~sl~:a~~~~ ~;~ august faculty of Western Maryland College. Filled with amaze- ment, we learn that our twenty-six walters are the members of the Senior class of the college who are merely carrying out a custom of many years standing, 76