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i UTS FOR FRESH MEN

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the pain which he must endure and of the danger to his lit and looking up into my face he said, having in mind the

many fellows to whom 1 talk every year, "Tell them thej always have to pay tor it; they always have to pay for it

Through many years of observations on thousands of students I have come to know that the boy's words are true. The clean, continent life is the only safe one. and those \ouin men who think otherwise and who gratify their physical past€ sions pay tor it" ultimately in ruined health, and ruined Characters, and ruined studies. T h e student with a el m mind and clean morals has the best chance of winning the high scholastic standing. One other thing that you might Very well keep in mind—some d.w \ on are going to want to have a home of your o w n ; and to take to it the girl whom you have chosen to be your wife. If at that time you can come to her with a body free from the effects oi d\<cA>c I a past life clean and wholesome, you may count the < of self control as nothing compared with the satis-

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n you will then feel.

In coming to the University y"( Illinois, you will meet all these temptations which 1 have named, but if you re to get the most out ^i your work, if you are You Can Meet t develop into the sort of citizen which Temptation the state is wanting to educate, you will meet them man full} and you will conquer them it is p ible for e\ ry strong, healthy man to do, and a in t health) fellow succeed in doing No one can hel y u m u c h ; it i part o\ the problem of living which \ U m I urself Ive.

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