Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914) [PAGE 20]

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I N1VKRSITV OF ILLINOIS

that a relatively larger percentage of the upper classmen live in Champaign than in Urbana. This is accounted for by the fact that practically all of the men's organizations have their houses or their headquarters in Champaign. The sensible student will not move often. If in business life three moves are equal to a fire, in college life that many moves are generally equal to a flunk; for Don't Move the man who can not get on with his landOften lady is not likely to be more successful with his instructors. Every student should select such a place to live as will enable him to live comfortably, and to do his work quietly and regularly. The work of a college course is a man's work, and it takes most of the student's time to do it well. It is sometimes difficult to do it even under the most comfortable and favorable conditions. On this most important subject of getting on with the the landlady I might offer a few suggestions. T h e freshman's conduct in his room—and it is most freG e t t i n g on w i t h quently the freshman who has the trouthe Landlady ble—very largely determines the landlady's frame of mind. A quiet, polite, orderly freshman usually hooks up with an obliging, tidy landlady. The student ought not to burn the lights when it is unnecessary. If he makes some effort to keep his personal effects picked up off the floor, the landlady will be encouraged to keep the room clean. It is almost a hopeless task for her it the roomer takes no interest in keeping the place neat. If burnt matches and cigarette stubs and waste paper, and soiled clothing clutter the floor he need not be surprised it She is irele s with the dusting. [f the landlady goes to bed early, the student ought not to practice bass drum solos or tart an impromptu concert at midnight. If he is of such a temper anient as t require large numbers of friends to visit < him, 1: ought to time their calls and the racket incident thereto in such a manner as to leave the other inhabitants of

th< place some opportunity to rest, if he shows courtesy and thought fulness, he is quite likel) to prove an ;ig iM«

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