Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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14 ome on UNIVERSH Y OF [LLINOIS usually w i n s ; it i. often a neglibl* quantity, and in most ca not more perhaps than you might spend on rst class show or an entertainment of any sort. 1 "What i the harm to me?' a young man asked me not long ago. "1 can afford the time and the money it costs me. Why should I not play poker for money?" I should answer that it is a dan? rous habit, b :ause it almost invariably leads to exec i s. The gambler learns to take risks which he can not afford, to waste time that should he given to something else, to bet and to lo • money which w not intended for this purpose, and he develops at once a reputation for unreliability. N o business man, even if he himself amhles, cares to employ a young fellow who has or who has had the habit, simply hecause he knows the dangers which surround it. I have known few men who hegan the habit in college who found it easy to hreak it, and I have known none who, even though they played for small stakes and won or lost very little money, were not injured by it. If the habit is nothing more it is a time waster and leads you into associations which it were usually better not to have formed. As to drinking, many fellows say to me that they learned to drink at home with their fathers and mothers about the dinner table. This may all be Drinking true, and to such men I have nothing to Brings Coarse say, so long as they drink with their frithAssociations crs and mothers at /IODIC. The drinking habit as I have seen it practic 1 in our col ] < community for many years has never been a help or an advantage to any Student, and it has usually been a distill injury. The only excuse for it is that it is BUppo 1 {,» enCOUraj sociability and to promote good fellow hip [ n 1()1 a law was pai ed in Illinois prohbiting any one fj !U |jm or giving away liquor within four miles of the State I versity, When liquor can be obtained only by \ lating tIn law or by going to some dii putablc or remote pla< L it tie ort of >d fellowship which it en .in,,. Mii( a very high order, The kind f p pie both men ml won
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