Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914) [PAGE 18]

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The Problem of Living

In the early days of the University students found the most attractive places to live at some distance from the campus, often lodging two miles or more from the University grounds. Now students are crowded as thickly and as closely as possible about the University, no one living more than a few blocks from the campus, excepting as he may wish to find a lodging place at a low price. All the college activities are near the campus, and if one wishes to enjoy these he must pay for the privilege. T h e farther away one goes the more removed he is from the real college life, and the more cheaply he can find lodging. One who has a reasonable amount of money furnished him need not consider these relatively small differences, however. A student coming to the University for the first time should not put off the selection of a lodging place until registration day, or he is likely to have Getting a little choice left him. H e should choose Room early and thoughtfully with regard to his own comfort and convenience. Usually two students live together in one room, and this room is their home—parlor, study, living room, bed chamber all combined in one. It is desirable that it be well located, well heated, and well cared for. All these points should be carefully considered before the room is contracted for—they are much better adjusted before than after one has become a tenant The matter of neighbors is important. It is undesirable for many freshmen to OCCUpy the same lodging house; their habits of study are likely to be unformed Neighbors and they waste each others' time without knowing it. It is unwise to live in a house where more than half the students are freshmen. Con•nialty and community of interest are well worth looking for; the new student is influenced materially tor g» »d or f r evil by the men with whom be lives.