Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914) [PAGE 31]

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FACTS I'OK I'KI HMEN ,,e of final reckoning so far ahead and youth is I 0;

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I seldom call a man for procrastination and negl duty who does not tell me dial ii had been ins serious inter

j 0 n to see me that day even if I had n t call 1 him, a d I resume he is often telling the truth. I seldom talk to 1^ oafer who has not promised himself, even befoi I urge I n 1 k o get down to serious work, that In: will Mop In loafing at )nce. Loafing is a habit easily learned and hard to bit i.. md it ruins more college careers, at the wry run et, than loes any other vice. Then you should ha\ i regul r t ie 'or going to work each evening and in the simple COmmi n't: n which we live this should seldom he later than half past even o'clock. You should not be turned from the habit 1 .Iluring invitations to get into card games, or to Stand around he piano and develop your taste for poor tnusi c to wast he evening in attendance upon a low class vaudeville shov. PJft »r a racy moving picture performance, or even to sit in front : i »f the lire and talk about politics or the girls with your room oft nate. When the time comes for study you should go to : i .s if you liked it, and do this six days in the week and ;. •- hree or four hours a day. If you do this for moi or wo \ there will be little likelihood of your developing : to cnr ipt-r. .:J om'c loafer. I have said all of this knowing that every ealthy young fellow will want pleasure and rel od owing also that he ought to have it. Hut the d. ishos ie enough for class work and study and red U I ni-^P if the twenty-four hours arc intelligently utilized, and

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