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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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vm STUDENTS AND STUDENT LIFE Characteristics of the Western University Student. Physical Sports and Military Training. Student Journalism. The Fraternities and Sororities. Religious Activities. Discipline. The College Year. IT is a frequent remark of faculty newcomers from the East that the Illinois student is perceptibly more earnest than the average college undergraduate. This earnestness, however, does not carry with it a greater ambition than is to be met with elsewhere. The student's industry, his intentness on problems of actual life, his practical interest in everything from making a dynamo to the theory of economics, are not given their due edge by a desire to strive towards high goals, and are accompanied by much of the limitation of outlook that characterize busy and practical communities. In a word, the Illinois student is industrious and energetic, but a little wanting in imagination. He bends himself to his semester's task with full realization that it constitutes one-eighth of his advanced preparation for life —such a realization as many Eastern professors would give all their time to instil; but he is prone to think of himself as called upon to play an average rather than |i high part in life. The homes in which most students grow up, being middle-class homes with little leisure for ideals, dreams, and ambitions, are partly responsible for this j the youthful nature of most community life 296
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