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THOMAS HAMILTON LEWIS President oj Western Maryland College Western Maryland College, A. n., '75 Western Maryland College, A. M., '78 Adrian College, D. D., '85 Victoria University, Canada, D. D., '11 Washington College, LL. D., '07 Organizer and President. Westminster Theological Seminary, [882-86; Prcsi- dent, western Maryland College since [886. A teacher, a disciplinarian, a preacher, nn orator, a financier, and an executive is t.his builder of Westem Maryland College. A man in ever): sense of its mean- ing. A leader of men towering above those he leads. He has given his entire life and strength to the formation and growth of this college. The large college buildings, massed upon "the Hili," overlooking a great stretch of picturesque mountain scenery, the army of Alumni, teachers, preachers, doctors, lawyers, :tnd business men, serving and directing the destinies of the people of their com- munities, bis great contribution to the educational Iorccs of the State, all form monuments in reality to the life of this man. To surmount. apparently IIIlSur·- mountable difficulties, to hold always to a definite ideal and purpose, to see clearly t.he possibilities of the future, and to make one dollar serve the purpose of two have been his greatest achievements and after nearly a third of a century of service he can say with Horace: Exegi m01Wmelltmn (Jere pC1"cnn-i·us. P(lnel\'ine