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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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58 UNIVKKSITY OF ILLINOIS Law— Van Twiller Law Club Witenagemot Law Club John Marshall Law Club Fuller Law Club In addition to these there are local branches of a number of general societies for the development of learning that are open to the proficient members of the upper classes. For the freshman who has special ability along certain lines, there are open a large number of organizations and activities. The advantages and disadvantages of this kind of interest have been discussed in a previous chapter.* Briefly, the danger lies in participation in too many kinds of activities. The man who is content with an active interest in a single legitimate field outside of his regular work will ordinarily be better off than either the man who keeps to his studies constantly, or the other who goes in for everything. These organizations without regard to their primary purposes have always a secondary value as social mediums. Many a boy, otherwise backward, has come out into a healthy companionship because he could play football well, or blow a horn, or maybe, develop a nose for news on a student paper. Organizations which call for special ability are athletic, musical, journalistic, literary, and dramatic. Membership is usually gained only after a period of probation during which the applicant's merits are tested. Fully one-third of the men students of the University l ngagc actively in competition for places on one or another of the many athletic teams, To b Athletics me member of a squad trying 0U1 for an athletic team is isv, and usually entails nothing more than appearing for praeti- . and becoming a*' v quainted with the < ach In charge. 8tudfa -ml nthoi Things.
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