New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-01

false start may not be so costly the case;
but there certain broad principles OF undergraduate
life at Yale that the freshman cannot too early have
forciby injected into his consciousness
1t is probably because the coming to college from
the larger prep schools have in a grown up in
modified college atmosphere, and have these prin-
cpcS we'll dgcStcd by the time they go up for entrance
exams, that they usually have more brilliant careers
than the men from smaller schools who need year
to become adapted to the new environment.
The first impression likely TO strike the freshman
fociby is the activity OF undergraduate life at
New Haven. He has, perhaps usually thought Of col
cgc as place where did more less as he pleased
when ne pleased and followed his own ncinations in
telcCtua otherwise to the exclusion Of interfering
obligations. But it is not Yale.
Our freshman will soon discover that all the men in
his class whose friendship is much worth having are
rather Strcnuousy engaged in the pursuit Of some one
Of the various recognized college activities. One
man may be out for class football, another for The
News" a third working in boys clubs other
department Of university religious life, and
He will next notice (alSo with perpcxy that it
does not seem to matter 50 much what field man
chooses 50 long his efforts in earnest and his
purpose sincere The freshman will be surprised to find
the athlete and the literary light upper classman ROOM
ing together, and each most highly apprccativc OF the
others ability.
Many man has made false start through procraS-
nation He was meaning" to 60 out for football all the
fall but never quite got started. and 50 on Not only
has ne lost ground in accomplishing something but he
has lost an opportunity for making friends because the
pick Of the men are always the firing line and con-
scqucntly the freshman who spends his afternoons
hanging around will probably have for company the
least desirable element in his class.
Provided q man is human and does not permit the
race for intellectual honor make freak or hermit
Of him. the better the work he do IN the classroom,
the greater the respect in which he will be held by his
own class and those above him. This is true and is I'M
poran, because failure to grasp this fac' has probably
been responsible for false starts and consequent
unimcy ending Of college careers than any other all
mcnt tha, the freshman Is heir 10.
The freshman will DO well not to allow himself to
worry over the future II ne is properly busy, he will
not have time to; but in any case he shoud remember
that the first year mere apprenticeship 10 real par
tcuation in the c Of the university; that chance
10 get taste through his own class organizations OF
what is in store later and to fit himself for the more stir
ring time, Of sophomore junior and senior years Just
as the university itself is preparation for the more I'M
portan business Of life. So he should try his hand mere
and there and develop such latent ability as he may
possess. and above all culti-
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will find duties and response Gr7I,A 3
bilitics demanding an incrcas- XII ID
ing share Of his time, and will \Gb III
frequently find himself look NrA M
ing back longingyo ON thccarc- VhkA ANY,
free liberty OF freshman year. ,Akat- : -
FINALLY the freshman must III EENll ~