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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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FACTS FOR FRESHMEN 49 commonplace positions simply from lack of initiative or ability to assume leadership. The lack of ability to handle men often keeps a young fellow from an opportunity t o utilize his educational stock in trade. Social training in college, then, is a very desirable thing. I do not mean by this statement, however, to encourage what is technically known in college as the "fusser." There is little intellectual or business advantages in a college man's becoming an adept in pleasing young women unless he expects to be a man milliner or to run a soda fountation. W h a t he needs is association with men. There are a number of ways in which such an association may be cultivated. T h e ordinary method which simply for the sake of enjoyment takes a man out Do N o t O m i t among his fellows—and sometimes his felSocial Life lows' sisters—is neither to be ignored nor worked too strenuously. Parties and picnics, and social calls, and long quiet strolls when the moon is full are in moderation, helpful, perhaps, but they should not be developed into a regular business. Even a good thing may be overdone. It is exceedingly desirable that a man should learn how to manage his hands and feet and tongue, but it is quite possible to devote too much time to acquiring such information. T h e man who omits all social life of thisort makes a mistake; the fellow who devote a large part of his time to it is mushy. I have a strong belief in the value of athletics. It h true that some of the poorest students I have ever known have called themselves athlete's, but 1 have Go I n for kn wn more Rood students than poor OIK Athletics who hav< b *n prominent in athletic events The man at the University of [Hill is who 1 n • ived the highest class standing ^i any student in tv fl< fiv year' was both ;m athlete and a inusici.m. In minds of many people either fact should have been sufli nYnt to ruin him holastieall) 'I lie man who go int. athl sanely h > good chance of developing a Stronfl body; both tradition and ncceility demands that he live a
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