Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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College Activities Joininj n organi ation, in the common parlan of colleg tudents, is called "making" the m mi ition, A man ! make the football t im, or the Glee Club, I ask 1 M "Did So tnd-so 'make a fraternity ? And making something or other seems to he so much talked about, 1 th in coll re and out, that the freshman is likely to come to think thai "to mak * this or thai club, or fraternity, or t un, is quite the important thing in life* F o r some men it is so. Others, a large majority, after the first rush is over, go on with the daily task quite contentedly, '"making" something if their talents or qualities bring them into notice, or doing pretty well "outside." as the ease may he. This IS especially so with n trd to social and honorary organizations. Every man in the University, however, can belong to sonu- organi ation having to d^^ with student interests. What this 01 ni ation is will depend in some cases upon the man's willin m 3 to join, in others upon some special ability he have, and in others, still, Upon his | i> 1 popularity V iv< hman should early ally himself with in! I in which he will associate with Other men. me organized No matter what may be the primary purpose (>i student organi fttions, the soi d value will be ever pr< ent Men drawn I ether b a single common interest will ass iatc also in other wa\ i his will be i pecially true ^i the freshmen who, without much pre\ us acquaintance, musl expect to make their firs! friend among the men who are broughl cl to them tust 'Ih healthy fr< ihman will d< ire to make friends righl B y among his fellows. The man who holds him If a! fi in the to il idc of the life before him, who keeps to h i Dm, o! S| ids his leisure hours alone, is abnormal, 1 him th< i is alw s a (Ian ci of falling inl the had mental * ph. d luhits that form In men who ai I without th
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