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18G8 1943 • • • A LTHOUGH its childhood years were spent within the confining bounds of the Victorian Era, Western Maryland College was able to grow up successfully into a tolerant and truly liberal institution. Cognizant of the demands of America at war, it has adjusted its program to fit the needs of its men and women for their part in the war. Nevertheless, it has not abandoned its peacetime ideals of properly developing the characters, the minds, and the bodies of its students. From the horse and buggy to the convertible; from Old Main to twenty buildings; from seven students to six hundred: this is the growth of our institution. More important, perhaps, than these material evidences are the ever growing and expand- ing ideals embodied in uA greater Western Maryland". By great enlargement of the curriculum as well as by the addition of innumerable educational facilities, the college now offers edu- cation to men and women whose interests are increasingly varied. The development of a college, like that of a person, is com- plicated-often troublesome, and Western Mar-yland did not escape such vgrowing pains". Naturally sensitive to the trends of the times. Western Maryland was affected for better and for worse by the Victorian Nineties and the early 1900's, by the wartimes of 1914-18, by the Chaotic Twenties, by the Depressed Thirties, and again by Wartime--this time the Forties.