The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-15
UNIVERSITY HABIT"
Foreign, Philosophic and Di-
vinity Students as "Stay-
ers" in Chicago.
VARIOUS TYPES FOUND
Monthly Remittances and En-
joyable Life Keeps Many
Relics at Books.
VARIOUS TYPES FOUND
Monthly Remittances and En-.

If you ever stray on the campus o
the University of Chicago you proba
bly, would notice now and then among
the we'll groomed youths with pipes
and misshapen hats a rather incon,
gruous figure of man no longer In
the first flush of youth. If you tool
the trouble to inquire as to his iden.
tity you would be told with smile
oh. that's only one of those fellows
with the university habit
He is a queer product, this man
with the habit" but he has become ST.
permanent an element in the univer-
sity that even the late President Har-
per was constrained to speak of him
on several occasions and to hold him
up to the other students somewhat in
the manner of a terrible example.
4 Fixture mt Midway School.
In brief, the man with the habit" is
Il student who has for some reason or
other become fixture about the uni
versity; that is, he stays on and or
as a student without even a thought
| of leaving. 1t has become a saying:
Glasses may come and classes may
go, but the man with the habit stays
on forever"
There are several types of this man,
the most common forms being the
foreign student, the philosophic spec
les and the divinity variety. The for
eign kind has perhaps the nearest to
a legitimate excuse for existing. He
is usually young man who in his
own country found himself unable to
realize his ambition for higher edu-
cation, either because of race. poll
tical affiliations, religion or lack of
funds.
U. s. Goal of Foreign Students.
The realization of this ambition, he
is told, he may find in the United
States, where the nation so fosters
education that no needy young man
need 60 without it If he only have
willingness to work hard. Arrived.
here he gradually makes his way to
one Of the larger institutions of learn
ing to take up his studies and not a
few such land at the University of
Chicago.
There he finds no difficulty in OBJ
tanning help, both financially and
otherwise. He is usually given free
scholarship and, besides, some work
that goes far toward defraying his
other expenses.
Completes His Education.
In many cases, of course, he re-
mains at the school until he COM
pletes his education and learns the
language, then going out to take up
some useful work, and there have been
many such who have brought credit
upon the university, but there are
some who are differently affected by
the new environment.
They find themselves in pleasant
surroundings, the greater part of their
living expenses taken care of by
others; they are invited to the homes
of some of the professors who have
become interested in them; they find
it pleasant to lounge about the cam
pus and discuss important national
and international subjects, they soon
learn the games of golf and tennis and
find them enjoyable sport.
When Case Becomes Hopeless.
Several years more pass and the
burning ambition to do things that
animated the student when he first
came has somehow cooled down--in-
deed, 1t has turned to ashes and no
more urges him to labor-and he
stays on-on-on-until he has be.
come "man with the habit" and his
case is hopeless.
The philosophical species of the
genus man with the habit" usually
can be recognized by his stopping
shoulders and the furrowed brow. The
latter is to give the impression of the
profound thought that is ever occupy
ing his gigantic mind.
In the course of his studies he has
come upon some important line of
thought, a certain new fundamental
philosophy that doubtless will aston
ish the world when made public But
one cannot perfect great system of
philosophy in a day.
Years and Years Of Study.
Indeed, it takes a lifetime to give
humanity so priceless a boon. It
takes years and years of study before
the mind becomes ready to encompass
the great problems of the new phil
osophy.
Were not all the great savants of
antiquity and of modern times men
of many years before they promul-
gated their great rules of life? OF
certainty, yes, and who is he to en-
deavor to solve the mighty problems
that beset the human race in a few
years?
Monthly Remittances Help.
Besides, some dear aunt or grand
parent is perfectly willing to send
monthly checks to dear Alfred or
Henry, who is going to do some great
things-some day-that's It; it is al
ways some day other than the pres
ent one with the man with the
| habit"
So he hangs on to the university as
long as his kind relative continues
to remit the monthly allowances, and
II. by chance, this stipend should be
cut of, he seeks a teachers agency
and becomes the preceptor of the
youth, say at the high school of Po-
dunk, Mo-, so that every summer he
may come back to the campus for
some more intensive study on the
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