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out. If the translation was hard, or the theme subject not suggestive, or the problem in mathematics refused to be solved, someone would help. Even if your teacher proved indifferent, or incapable, there were father and mother, or older brothers and sisters, or friends to fall back upon as a last resort. Whatever you did, or thought, was somewhat under the supervision of someone older or more experienced than yourself. You judged of your success, or your progress, by what these people said of you or to you. In college it is different. Everyone must look after himself; much of his training consists in his doing so. If he doesn't hustle, no one is likely at once to call his attention to the fact. The problem of living has not materially concerned you before you came to college. You have lived at home, and your comings and goings have been under Some One the direction of the older members of the Has Thought household. The most of your wants have for You been provided for without much thought or attention on your part. Mother has darned your stockings and picked out your neckties, and father has paid the bills. You have usually had relatively little money to spend, and even your companions, if they have not been directly selected by your parents, have yet C me to you through your environment quite as much as from your deliberate choice. Your habits are as much the result of the conventions and customs of the community in which you have been brought Up as of your own tendencies or inclinations. If y u learned to dance it was because all the fell w

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