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ANNAPOLIS
"YE ANCIENT CITY"
By SARA ANDREW SHAFER
Neither of the North nor of the South,
of the Old nor of the New, the fair State
of Maryland possesses a thousand charms that
are all her own, as she clasps the blue, river-*fringed
Chesapeake to her breast, and stretches
out her lovely leagues of hill and vale, of field
and forest and rocky glen, from where the sun
rises out of the ocean beyond her "East'n Sho'"
to where he sets behind the mountain ramparts
of her western frontier. And of Maryland
surely the heart lies in the quaint old city on
the Severn, where the days are longer, the
nights stiller, the sunshine more full of peace,
and the moonlight more fraught with mystery
than any place else in the world. To saunter
through the streets of "Y^e Ancient City" of Annapolis
is to take a University Extension course
