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n E ~I I N I S 4' ENS E S OUR years gone; and now quickly they have Rownl How things have changed! We've seen a F Greater Western Maryland growing before our eyes, but not until we look back do we realize the differences the years have made. Remember when we first came as freshmen? Girls lived in McKinstry then. Lights out at 10:40 was the order too. And they went out! No warning. no sign. just uuer darkness. Then a mad scramble for matches and flashlights, and the smell of burning candles and oil lamps as we plugged at the books or had our "feeds" and "bull sessions", Or how we sat shivering on the cold steps to study under a dim exit light. The boys had the right idea plugging extension cords into the hall lights. They weren't $0 dumb! And Senior tables at lunch and dinner. Serving yourself; the person in starvation corner getting nothing. Plate service. frowned upon when first instituted. Freezing weather it was in those days too-18° befow for over a week. Frozen ink and fruit. right in tbe donn. Remember the toboggan slide on back campus? A whizz into the dark. a call of "Lean righd'-, the feel of ice cutting your face. and you were buried waist deep in the drifts. And Christmas vacation our freshman year! The Hill a mass of ice. Cars stuck and frozen. Skating on the sidewalk by Alumni Hall. No one could get home. And then the special train they chartered to take us to Baltimore. Sitting three on every seat; the aisles filled with suitcases and laundry bags. On warm spring nights couples walking out to Hilltop. Sunday School picnics at Tramp Hollow, with the boys playing against the girls in a lively game of baseball. At 10 the boys singing old favorites on Mourners' Bench. Suggestions called from the dorm windows. The Alma Mater ringing out as a midnight farewell. Four years older; four years wiser. Freshmen then; alumni now; Western Marylanders always. 160