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"While at college Tom Smith was always preeminent as a baseball player and I was consequently not surprised to hear that he had made a success at the game in professional ranks after leaving college. The papers are full of his great work in the National League and we are glad to remember him as playing baseball for the Gold and Green.' "You will doubtless be glad to hear alsc what Marshall Thompson is doing," the fairy continued "He has be- come a well-known society man, a red-hot sport" and a heart-smasher. He has had fiancees and sweethearts galore and has their pictures on the walls of his room arranged according to their successive reigns over his highly susceptible heart. You will remember tbnt he was partial to small at one time, but his latest tlame presents a striking contrast to his usual selection,for she is so much larger than would be able to chastise him if necessary. We wish him all the luck possible, but cannot help feeling that should Fortune his suit in this direction, married life would not be 'one grand sweet song' for him. "'Ve often wonder why some people become ministers. One explanation given is that when a man grows too lazy to do anything else, he imagines he has a call to the ministry. He the Conference and gets a charge. That explains why we find William Dolly Tipton in a Methodist parsonage a wife of his own. Isn't it surprising'? Who would have thought that such bliss was to be his? But then the Western always did like Dolly. "Although Et-hel \Velch's name conies at the end of the she by no means the least in consequence. After leaving \V. M. C. she in a small rural school,but it was not long until she had increased in knowledge and ability to such an extent that became the principal of a high school She spent several summers at.Columbia Uni- versity, specializing in History, aud finally, despite the stringent examinations of Baltimore City, she is at present prin- erpal of the Normal School. "Next comes YOUI' class president, Olawrence whealton, and another jolt is in store for you. You remember possibly that in 'Ye Olden Days' Clawrenoe played on the football and basketball teams. He walked about giving direc- tions to others until his spirit became aroused by the cheering of the' 10 girls. 'I'hen he his long arms and went to work. He is now busily engaged in giving directions to budding athletes in one of the large Western colleges. Clawrence has become an athletic coach of the first class and his opinions Oil collegesports of all kinds are respected all over the country. The Fateshave chosen kindly for him,for Clawrence would always prefer to Lellsomeone else how to do it rather than do it himself." As the fairy glanced at the nextnamehe laughedloud and long. "'William Richard Wiley,Physician,' reads the shingle outside the dingy, unpretentious mansion in one of the suburbs of Baltimore. It is here that 'Willie,' having grown weary of women and society, has settled down to 'The Club,' 11 gruesome skeleton, and other people's aches and pains. 67