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The History of the Class of 1926 HY write a history of the Junior Class? Has it not heretofore led a rather obscure and unobtrusive life in the annals of our college? In the W Fall of '22, when the class first embarked on its higher educational career, it entered into an environment quite different from high school life and correspondingly unfamiliar to many of its members. Never will the class forget that year-a year to the class of 1926 of persecution at the hands of the Sopho- mores. For unsophisticated men and women nominally classed as "Freshmen" to enter into the conditions prescribed for them was, indeed, a revolution in their mode of living. In that year the most notable event for the class was the Sophomore, Freshman Football game, the score of which, after a hard, close contest, was 0 to O. The men of the class were introduced to society in the annual Hallowe'en party, and the stunts which they performed on that occasion were, indeed, enjoyable. The second year was one of utter sophistication when the Sophomores-as "Lords of the Campus," endeavored to bring to light many worthwhile truths which had, before this discovery, entirely escaped all predecessors. The class team won laurels in the annual "Mud, Combat," known in other vicinities as inter' class football, for this time the Sophomores were victorious. In inter' class baseball the winning of the cup by the Sophomore team speaks for itself. The Hallowe'en party can be called the crowning event on the class social calendar, for it was on this occasion that the class made its entrance into society as host to the college. Though several of the most loyal members have dropped from the ranks of the class of '26, their memories will live on through remaining college days. The work they would have done on the "Hill" must be included in the duty of the class. The loss of such men as Gruber, Hall, and Duncan must be apparent to any class. As this third year is closing and the class assumes its rightful position in col, lege life, in the effort to make of the college a "Greater Western Maryland," the real history of the class of 1926 will begin. [l36}