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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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^ UN VERSITl OF ILLINOl olle 1 a lor or lc s com chaperonage ver tl n wl le there, do well in their college w< lc A colleg ft" r was ask< m k n g ago by an otherwise sensible n thcr who had hovered oxiously over her young offspring during hi high t hool course and for two years of fa college caret why he never accomplished anything. The repl v that he * is never allowt to D so. Som me or other, if one is to learn to sv. m, he mm be thrown into the water, and allowed to make the struggle alone. It is not likely to v >rk any damage if some one is sufficiently intere ed to :and by and watch the struggle, and if drowning is imminent, which is seldom :he case, to extend the helping hand, but usually the swimmer learns because he has as the muskrat was said to learn to climb a tree. Having been given preliminary training he mi t be allowed to work out his own methods : he may go under a few times, and take on a little wa :r, but he learns in the end to swim. It is equally true of the college man. He must learn independence, and 5 If-reliance, and self-direction in the same way that young people learn to sv m. One of the greates: sources of satisfaction to a college officer is to see how few suffer real disaster in the learning:, and when these unfortunate c urred ter where the young lear: time the value of money. Fev high school boys know how gr Learn Value of experience in expending the mom tl of Money went for their support. If ou arc g ei a regular monthl llov ce, as you ghoul be given, it will very likely at first sec 1 large I \ be iinati care. The fellows who ar most regular!., roke r ha up, are not the ones lally. who ive the * ance. It will be well for you if you re requil an account of your e nditur. r if not requ I to t if you still keep this account for your ov nlightei w t
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