. The Forester . ation ofcapturing the handkerchiefs which the fair ones docarry in their hands on state occasions. And the objectof all this training is, namely, this: that for the walls ofthe domicile wherein the college youth does abide, hemay provide suitable decorations in the form of remem-brances of past enjoyment; and thus having appeasedhis spirit of conquest, with the trophies of his warfaregathered around him—a practice similar to the NorthAmerican Indians with his scalps—the college youth isready in the fall of the third year of his sojourn to settledown to the steady object of his
. The Forester . ation ofcapturing the handkerchiefs which the fair ones docarry in their hands on state occasions. And the objectof all this training is, namely, this: that for the walls ofthe domicile wherein the college youth does abide, hemay provide suitable decorations in the form of remem-brances of past enjoyment; and thus having appeasedhis spirit of conquest, with the trophies of his warfaregathered around him—a practice similar to the NorthAmerican Indians with his scalps—the college youth isready in the fall of the third year of his sojourn to settledown to the steady object of his junior year, that offalling in love. Now, it happened in this wise; that of all the famousand redoubtable sophomore class there was one 3-outhwho surpassed all others by reason of great manual dexteritv and cun-ning in this noble act of capturing pocket handkerchiefs. So skillfulhad he become that his fame had gone abroad in the land, and themight of his prowess was such that the fair ones did tremble at his.
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