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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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42 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS he becomes liable to discipline unless he has acceptable exuses for each absence. The regulation means that when a student has been absent a certain number of times, his instructor is given an opportunity of saying whether he may continue in class, whether he should make up work missed, or whether he is so far behind with his work that he cannot ontinue with any hope of passing the course. In Military you should have no "absences without leave" on your record. If you must be absent from a drill period, von must get an excuse from the ofiice of the Dean of Men, and you should present this to the military office before the hour of drill, and at latest before Saturday noon of the week in which the absence occurs. If you cannot do this personally or by telephone, arrange with a friend to do it for you and be sure that he does it. It will pay you to read carefully the rules of the Military Department upon this and all other points, for a part of their instruction is in discipline, and you will suffer a penalty if you violate their rules. The Director of Physical Training will excuse students for sickness if the} present an excuse from the office of the Dean of Men. As you grow older in your course you will discover that the temptations to cut class come more frequently and with apparently better reasons for doing so. As you become involved in a confusion of work to be done, you will be sorely tempted to stay away from one class to prepare the work for another, or to stav awav to avoid a failure to recite. This is w m m a bad policy ; it can be compared to the world-old blunder of robbing Peter to pay Paul—a blunder committed only by people whose fortunes are at a low ebb. You will lose immeasurably by it. It is far better to go to class, take the medicine of i.iilui to r< it and reform afterward. Your inci iugl tive participation in outside interests will otYer, also, man rca -us why you might frequently cut clas > * ur frati nitj J Ur reli worl your athletu . debating teams, or your ltt< mptS to r a m money are some of the interests that maj tv as seemitlglj (j > rca us win J u may be ii gul d in da attendance, But e\ n the b I of these an p r c\ cu 'I he most efficient men in >llei tiviti* an usualh
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