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~P&"MA= ALOHA a"""",=.~ History of the Class of '33 memorable day upon which we were first initiated of college was the nineteenth of September. On that green freshman stood hour after hour, footsore and endless line at the library. Our purpose? Ir was Maryland custom, that of registering. Our Freshman Week, though truly not a week, seemed quite adequate to us, poor bewildered adventurers that we were. Then followed the eventful return of the upper classmen and Sophomores. Who can look back upon" Rat Rules" without experiencing a ting~ing sensation r At the time we considered the Sophs cruel monsters luring us, poor Innocents, into their wily clutches purely for theif own amusement. Then who does not remember the "rat caps" and green ties? Doubtless many an earnest prayer has been de- livered to the effect that those bothersome bits of tradition be abolished by a bolt of lightning from heaven or vy some other superhuman intercession. Then we underwent a long period of adaptation, a necessary factor in the production of perfect co-operation. We participated in the various activities upon "The Hill," such as the Y. W. C. A., the Y. M. C. A., the literary societies, devating, and special entertainments. measles, we all go through them. Some there are those necessary evils for the first time. Never.. bur perhaps that was because Bonnies' aided in page one IllIlIdredsel'enly,/wl)