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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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54 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS incoming freshman to make worthy friends, and to get beneficial counsel, is through the Young Men's Christian Association, and the student societies of local churches. One need not avail himself of the privileges of these interests long, he may even leave them as soon as they have given him a working acquaintance, but if he wishes a safe beginning, this is one of the ways to find it. The Young Men's Christian Association is the active men's religious organization of University students. The Association occupies a fine three-story The Young building just off the campus, which conMen's Christian tains lounging and game rooms, bowling Association alleys, and dormitories to accommodate about eighty men. There is also a restaurant, a lunch room, and a barber shop in the basement of the building. The Association holds religious meetings for men on Sunday afternoons, and to these as well as to the building all new men are welcomed. Courses in Bible study are given. The Association is most helpful to new students, and a new student can do no wiser thing than to go to the Association Hall as soon as he arrives. Lists of rooms and boarding places are posted, members of the Association meet all trains, assist students in finding satisfactory locations, and endeavor to make them feel at home. A regularly conducted employment bureau under general direction of the University, has been of immense service in helping students to find work. The Young Women's Christian A sociation performs similar service for the young women of the University. The local churches in Champaign and Urbana make ever} effort to attract students, 10 engagt (hem in the various forms The Churches of church work, and to give them a h :rt\ welcome. Certain churches near the mi- pus, such as the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, the George McKinley Pn hyterian church, the Unitarian church, and the University Place Christian chut ire look I upon < pccially as Indent" churches, and hen the students attend in large nunibci Other Pi nt de
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