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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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I I UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS better off and safer in the end if you go slowly and look about you before you plunge into too fast friendships, either literally or figuratively. Your friends are most likely to be your making or your undoing. You have your opportunity to choose them consciously, and you should do this with a full knowledge of what your choice may mean. Good friends will lead you in the right direction, will help you to cultivate healthy, right habits, and will aid you in getting out of your college course the best there is in it. Ill chosen friends may easily defeat all the right purposes for which you have come to college. Now, as always, a man is judged by the company he keeps. All these problems which you will meet are difficult to solve. There is often home-sickness and discouragement, and sometimes, unfortunately, defeat; but in most cases the freshman can be relied upon. You know the hopes that are based on your success; you know the disappointment that will come if you fail, and you will meet the situation man full
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