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o Society Halls they have many honors to our class and "Alma Mater" and much pleasure to mscrmuna tmg audiences. o The Class of '26 is a versatile class, for while in extra-curricular activities and interest in social life a scholastic standard has been kept. It been whispered around the campus that we hold the I~ record for good marks. In the spring of our Junior year the first Women's Student Government Association was organized in place of the old system of cooperative student government, a magnanimous step in Western Maryland's modernism. "To- day," the President rapidly gained the cooperation of all the students in making it the greatest organization at Western Maryland. The fact is almost universally known that a college education is a necessity in modern times; when we entered our collegiate life we had hopes and expecta- tions of soon becoming Chief Justices, Arch-Bishops, or Presidents of the United Slates. But now, after four years of hard but pleasant college life we wonder when rhe appointments will be made and wait to grasp with eagerness the only apparent reward of our labor-our diplomas. Our work as a unit ceases, but a greater begins. The members of this class of classes, the Class of '26, go forth to startle the world with new inventions and new ideas. The last chapter of the career of the Class of '26 will finish our chronicle. \Ve entered in the fall of 1925, with a more serious purpose than ever before feeling as our duty the making of a better class and a greater Western Mary- land. Faithful" Bill" Veasey, our president for two years, has piloted us safely through several tempestuous seas and his capable, willing assistants have shown loyalty to him, their class, and their school. Though some of the Professors show an inclination to keep us for a longer time than the allotted four years, we will endeavor to break away from the endearing ties, but will always be here in spirit to help in the fulfillment of the dream of a dearer, a greater Western Maryland. As we leave may our sue- cessors say' "'Nother class has left the Hill. 'Hundred years we'll know them still."