. The Forester. called upon to receive a few who thought it best to thinkout loud some unkind thoughts. the freshmen girls were well-behaved, obeyingall orders from their superior Sophs while going to and from College was on Friday night, when by concentrated action, we placed ropes around-tbe maculine representatives of the class in appoximately nine minutes, and sentthem to their rooms, impressing upon them that they had participated only inthe preliminary exercises, and from now on that they must, as Freshmen, co-oper-ate with the student body of Lake Forest. We spent a good deal of


. The Forester. called upon to receive a few who thought it best to thinkout loud some unkind thoughts. the freshmen girls were well-behaved, obeyingall orders from their superior Sophs while going to and from College was on Friday night, when by concentrated action, we placed ropes around-tbe maculine representatives of the class in appoximately nine minutes, and sentthem to their rooms, impressing upon them that they had participated only inthe preliminary exercises, and from now on that they must, as Freshmen, co-oper-ate with the student body of Lake Forest. We spent a good deal of time and energy on the new men. but we gave agreat deal more energy toward placing our classmates in the various Collegeactivities; and if our future is as successful as our present Sophomore year, wewill be justified in being proud of 1918. In conclusion, we may say that it is ourhope and ambition to foster a wholesome spirit within us which will realize itselfin furthering the up-lifting of our college 62 THE FORESTER—1917 The Discussion Contest Harlan Hall opened the series of Discussion Contests on the evening of Decem-ber 7th, with remarkably well-done talks on Intercollege Athletics. On Decem-ber 14th, the representatives of Blackstone Hall discussed the interesting questionof How to Get Students for Lake Forest, followed by a presentation of TheHonor System, by North Hall. By these preliminaries, Messrs. Henshaw andTom Findlay were chosen to represent Harlan, Maplesden and Boeschensteinto represent lllackstone, and Woods and Willert to represent North. The final was held on Friday evening, January 28th in the chapel. With thereadiness and generosity which we have so often experienced from Chicago pro-fessional men, Mr. W. L. Richardson, Mr. 1. T. Gilruth and Judge A. M. Kalescame out from town to act as judges. Before the main contest they gave threeverv good talks at the Commons, Mr. Gilruth giving an instructive account ofthe earlv history of the Supreme Cour


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