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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 13 unpleasant tasks in whatever business we may b 1 ngaged, < and if we have no love for our work, if it does not interest us. if we can not come to it each day with exhilaration and joy, then we are indeed unfortunate. Do not choose a course of study simply because it seems in itself desirable. Scores of students fail in technical courses for the reason that they have chosen their course of study on its merits without determining their personal fitness to pursue such a course. No course of study, no matter how well planned it may be, is a good one for you unless you have some special fitness for it. Neither should you choose your course of study on the principle that the best course is the one that leads immediately to the most remunerative position. Your future success does not depend upon the course you take, but upon your own talents and especially upon your preparation and fitness to fill an important place. There are always opportunities for those who are thoroughly prepared to take advantage of them. A good many students choose a course of study because it seems easier than another, or because it may be completed within a somewhat shorter time. Such a method is a very foolish one. Often the best course is the most difficult, and the one which takes the longest time to complete. If you have to work for your living in college you will usually show judgment if you do not plan to complete your work within the four years. A year more or le does not matter, provided you have done your work well. You are not likely to earn your living, and do in the same time creditably the work to which other students have all their time to devote. year. You will be sensible to take another There are 1 rtain mental and moral traits, no doubt which are necessary to success in any line. It is quite cot: ceivable that in order to get on Other Traits Necessary v. Hon, pn i- dent of a great railroad s item, or .is a coal In IT, one should have energj industry, also, is necessary, no nutter what trying to a< .mplish. fnttgrity, /•, -If t tni/itli'th ilhin limit are all requited it om
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