Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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FACTS FOR FRESHMEN IO3 MEDICAL ADVICE Everyone at some time during his college course is likely to need medical advice. There are in Champaign and Urbana and about the University a number of excellent physicians and others not so good. Students should not engage a physician without asking the advice of some one who has been in the community long enough to give intelligent advice. This will ordinarily not be another student. The Dean of Men will be glad to advise students on this subject at any time. No more important advice has been given in this book than that contained in this paragraph. STUDENTS' MUTUAL BENEFIT HOSPITAL FUND The Students' Mutual Benefit Hospital Fund, formerly the Hospital Association, was organized in 1899 to provide a fund to furnish hospital care for students in case of illness. Each student pays a fee of $1.00 a semester, and the sum thus raised, so far as the money available will do so, is used to pay the hospital ward fee of such contributors as fall ill. Students must be in good health when they pay the fee, and in case of illness are entitled to care for a length of time not exceeding four weeks each semester. The physician's bill and the fee for a special nurse, if one is required, are not included in the amount paid out of the Benefit Fund. The fee will not be received later than three weeks after the first day of registration in any semester. You cannot spend a dollar more wisely than to contribute to this fund, since it insures excellent care and more rapid recovery in case of illness. The fund is managed by the Dean of Men. INTERMISSIONS An intermission of ten minutes is allowed between recitation hours in which students are to gel from one building or from one class to another. Many instructors mark students ai Hi who are not in the class room by the time the second class hell rings. Students who are unavoidably late vill do well to speak to the instructor at the close of the ( las . pel iod to a\ id bcinj.; mai I al» lit.
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