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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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1 u rS FOR FRESHMEN 31 At college it is different When your study program is decided upon the disposal of your time is largely in your own hands. Vou may study one thing or anI n College Y o u other, or you need not study at all. You Must Decide may read in the library, or walk down for Yourself town, or watch the team practicing on Illinois Field; there is no one to call you to iCCOUnt If you attend regularly upon classes, and show a reasonable intelligence regarding your studies, you may employ your time as you please. You may choose your own companions, and act with absolute independence. There is a delightful freedom in all this which is sometimes deceiving. You may assume that since no one calls you to account today there will be no reckoning tomorrow, hut in this you are mistaken. Your time is your own, but it is your own to use wisely, and if you fail in this regard, you will sutler in the nal reckoning, for there surely is to be one. I should not want you to feel that the life in college is vitally different than what it has been for each of you in your home communities, but at home your College Life comings and goings have been carefully Not Vitally watched and this fact has shielded you Different and has kept you from having to make many a decision yourcslf. On entering college you will have some definite problem* to \ACC in a more personal way than the\ have e\ r befoi been presented to you. In most cases > HI Definite h a \ e previously been familiar mote or les Problems closely with all the temptations which are to F a c e to be found in college, but at home you have often been shielded from them—tlu\\ have been R M U i name than a rcalitj to you, Sooner 01 4 later < civ man must meet temptation face to face and sa) • or n to its proposals. T o m t young fellows the criti d time comeS at about the age when he goes t college l<«f this tlie coll. • is in no w.i\ i, ponsible, though mail) •n men have tri I to hang the blame there
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