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playing football last fall he was heard to remark that his heart was troubling him. Investigation showed that his love affairs were not prog-ressing very smoothly. Later advices, however, offer a hope for his recovery. Before becoming a member of the Freshman class, Carrie Frances Gladhill experienced an uneventful career, but since that time events have passed in varied succession. It was here that she first learned the conditions conducive to star-gazing, and, needless to add, practice has made her familiar with the heavenly constellations. Her heart has been lost, found, and if extra precaution is not taken is in dancer of being lost a second time. Her experience is sufficient proof that the heart is a safe U) moral guide, for upon its disappearance she considered it no sin to violate rule number CkVI"II, which she had pledged herself to observe. But the moment her heart was recovered the violation of this rule became an unpardon- able crime. From all reports she is wont to hang-mistletoe in some place by no means secluded, and she permits it to remain there all the year round. She considers it her solemn duty to sign each and every pledge which may be presented to her in order that her example may influence others to do like- wise. If the same principle can be applied to her work one would be led to believe that the sole object of existence is to dust pictures. There is one pleasure which she has been denied, a moonlight ride upon the water, for from her description these cannot be enjoyable when the rower must get out push the boat. The distinctive type of the individual known as the "Tar Heel ,. has more than local celebrity. It is to the consideration of several representatives of this type that the narrative now turns. For no accountable reason Carlia Louise Harris receives the first recognition. For three years she has been an earnest student and a worthy member of the class, but we fear that this attach- ment is merely outward, while her heart still reverts to the old" North" state. Her absent manner and the dreamy expression of her eyes tell more eloquently than words of somebody who was left behind. Then how com- forting must those frequent messengers be when even their salutation almost fills a closely written page. In this way she receives such exact information -+ 42 -c-
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