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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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FACTS FOR I RES 11 M KN 29 It is not surprising that your id \ of college life is an What you know of college you have most frequently gained from the exaggerated Comes With accounts of student escapades which you Wrong Idea have seen in the newspapers, or from the of College stories which you have heard related by your big brother or the local athlete who have returned home from the scenes of their scholastic triumphs. Such tales are usually unhampered by facts, and concern themselves more with the unusual and unimportant things of college than with its real work. If you have visited the college at all it has more than likely been at the time of an important athletic contest, or of an interscholastic meet, when nobody works, or talks of work, and when the main thing under consideration is the victory, and perhaps the celebration which follows. As you saw college then, it was a collection of care free young fellows with little to do but to enjoy themselves, and perhaps occasionally, if nothing more important prevents, to attend a few lectures. In point of fact college life is a strenuous one, where every man has his work which must be given regular and serious attention. If you are to get on well in college, or in life for that matter, the sooner you recognize this fact and adapt yourself to the situation the better. Failure in college comes from a failure to recognize the fact that the aims of the college are different from those of the high school, that tin amount of work required is greater, and that the methods of doing it must, also, be different. You must adjust yourself to these changed conditions if you would get on. As a high school boy you have seldom worked independently. The relations between you and your teacher have been closer, and more personal, than they High School are likely at first to be in college. You Boy Not knew that if your work were not done Independent when it should be, your teacher would remind you of the fact) if it Were not done a it should be, th oft uttei I directions would be repeated, When you were in difficulty there was some one to ret m erroneous one.
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