Repository: UIHistories Project: Magazine - English Club The Illinois (1907) [PAGE 6]

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nothing else. However, ho usually docs find time to get his work up and to pass his o.xaminat ions without illegitimate aids. This kind of man will usually make a success in after years. But for the loafer there is indeed little hope. In the fraternity, he is always the man who has more time than anyone else, but always has to study or has an engagement when anv real work is to he done. He is the man who loafs around the house all day, and is calling everj night. He is always t h e man who is spoken of as " a nice fellow, b u t — " Outside the fraternity horn he is the man who watches all the athletic t e a m s practice and play, giving advice freely, but alwa; has some excuse for not using his knowledge in actual play himself. He is the man who comes into your room about eight o'clock and wants you to play pitch, or who goes into a freshman's room and keeps him from working simply by sitting on the table and idly talking about the last cadet hop or the possibilities of the weather's changing within the next t w o days. He may glance through the pages of a book for a while, but finds himself sleepy and ret ires. The next day the program is the same. A t the end of the semester he finds himself brought up short with the finals only a few days away. I t is then impossible to prepare for them, hence, at the examination he turns to cribbing as naturally as a duck turns to water. He is too weak-kneed and cowardly to face the consequences of his folly fairly and squarely He is unwilling to pay for his fun. The loafer is the man whom everybody despises, and stands out in sharp contrast to the man who is identified in university activities b u t does not carry his work with a high grade, [t is difficult, indeed, to say whal ran be done with this type of student. A more t h o r

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