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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 21 When you make a contract for a room be sure you have a definite and specific agreement, written if necessary. The custom in Champaign and Urbana, which Making a for all practical purposes is the law, is to Contract hold students to whatever contract, oral or written, which they have made. If no definite time is set, then, whether he gives notice or not, the student must pay simply for the month on which he his entered, and may leave at any time. If he makes a definite agreement for a semester, or for the year, for instance, then he is held to this, and unless he can show that the landlady has broken her contract, must pay for the full time. Students should keep these points in mind; for the fact that one later finds that he can get a better room at a cheaper rate, or find a more agreeable location, or get into a fraternity, does not absolve him from the responsibility of his contract. Usually, however, if he can discover some one who is willing to take the room off his hands he is allowed to move. As to the payment of rent during the Christmas and other vacations, no general custom prevails. Some landladies make no deductions from the regular price; some charge but half rates for the time students are absent; and others make no charge at all. It is, therefore, all a matter of previous agreement, concerning which the student should be careful and definite. A list of available rooms in both cities, with d< xiption and prices, is ordinarily kept by the Young Men's Chris: .n Association, where it may be >nsi I Y. M. C. A. fr ly by students. The office the I Van List intelligent of Men will al > be glad to furnish any information which ma\ aid students in t i lection of lodging plaa . A comparison of prices will show that room i t is somewhat higher in Champaign than in Urban and me what higher on I . u r n , John. 1 >ani< and Comparison Chalnici streets in Champai i t 1 i of Prices other parts of the eitv. About t\ d\e pel « ent. of (he student* h\ \\ I \ !>. and hout lift live in Champaign it i al usualh tl c
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