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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 47 It is not enough that a student work regularly, he must apply himself to his work with concentration of mind. The fellow who puts in the most hours is not Develop necessarily the best student. It is the one Concentration who works regularly and who works hard as well—who has his whole mind on what he is doing—who will accomplish the most and who will get the best development out of his work. One of the poorest students with whom I have had to suffer was as regular in his work as the phases of the moon and as sure to be at his books as taxes, but Don't Work he worked too much, and he had no conToo Much centration. He would go to sleep while writing his theme as readily as I did while reading it. He worked without method and without application, and so he failed to carry anything. The best student I have ever known—and by that I mean not only the man who was best in his studies, but in the "other things"—put in very few hours at his work, but he studied every night and when he worked his whole mind was directed toward what he wished to accomplish; he did not let anything come between him and what he was doing, and when he was through, he stopped and put his work away. He won through regularity and concentration, and these qualities arc usually to be discovered when any man, student or otherwise, succeeds. But the "other things" are important; only slightly less important in fact than the studies themselves. However much a man may he devoted to his work. Do Some he can not study all the time, and In "Other Things" should not be allowed to do so even if it were possible. As I remember my own COlleg COiir e and try to estimate, as it is impossible justly to do, its pr< enl worth to me, I am inclined to value most highly some of the things thai were connected only remotely with the studies I was pUl tuing, Thi I external things naC tu illy v Uld have been of little value tO me unless 1 had arri I the work I was taking, for matters were so con ducted in our home circle thai a place would readily ha\
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