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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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j4 UNIVERSITY OF ILLIN succeed in the most exalted positions or at the humblest tasks. If after you have entered upon a course chosen in all good faith, it comes to you that you have made an unwise choice, and are attempting something for Don't Be Afraid which you are not fitted, and for which to Change you have no liking, do not hesitate to change. Finish the semester you have begun, and do your work energetically, and as well as you can. It is quite likely that the work you are carrying will apply as electives on another course you may choose, but even if this is not true you will not want to show yourself a "quitter" in the midst of a game, and you will not be so likely to secure permission to change to a second course if you have not done your best in the first one. In choosing a course of study at a state institution like the University of Illinois, which is supported by the people of the State, you should do so not only Service to with an idea of what is best fitted to your the State own talents and tastes, and of what will bring you the most gratifying financial returns, but you should have in mind, also, in making your choice, that which will give you an opportunity for service to the State. Your education will cost the State of Illinoi many times the amount which you will in foes pay to the institution. You are to pay this back by good citizenship; by doing creditably whatever work you elect to do ; by doing it better than other people do it, and better than you yourself would have been able to do without the training you are to receive. When you choose your course, and when you are pursuing your course you should not lose sight oi this f t. Every year I seem to meet more and more young men who want to go to college, but who are at sea as to what sort of work to take. They do n<>t know just what each par ticular course prepares a man to do. and they too ften d >p into something f(,r which they are not fitted just t< tuse > some friend has SUg| ' <\ thai it is a "^nn] i to tul
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