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OUR HISTORY. • • . Western Maryland was by then a thriving institution of seventy students, and in June of that year seven seniors proudly graduated. With Dr. J. T. Ward as president, the college was beginning to assume many of the trappings, so important to a Victorian institution. The Irving Literary Society of Young Gentlemen and the Browning Literary Society of Young Women held regular meetings, but even "Parlor nights" were still a thing of the future. Neither bad any physical training program been insti- gated. Western Maryland of 1871 developed only the minds of young ladies and young gentlemen. "exercise may be obtained from walks around the grounds and over the countryside." WESTERN MARYLAND COLLEGE ... 1871