Evening star., 1912-09-01

false start may be so costly the case
but there certain broad principles of undergraduate
life at Yale that the freshman cannot too early have
forcibly injected into his consciousness.
1t is probably because the coming to college from
the larger prep schools have in a grown up
modified college atmosphere and SO have these prn-
cpes well dgested by the time they 60 up for entrance
exams, that they usually have brilliant
than the from smaller Schools who need year or so
to become adapted to the environment.
The first impression likely to strike the freshman
fociby is the extreme activity of undergraduate life at
New Haven. He has, perhaps, usually thought of col
ege place where did or less he pleased
when he pleased and followed his inclnations in
telectua 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
rather strenuousy engaged in the pursuit of
of the various recognized college activities One
may be out for class football another for "The
News" third working in boys clubs other
department of university religious life and SO
He will next notice (aso with perplexty) that it
does not seem to matter so much what field man
chooses so long his efforts in it and his
purpose sincere The freshman will be surprised to find
the athlete and the literary light upper cassman
ing together and each most highly apprecatve of the
others ability.
Many man has made false through procrasti-
nation He meaning to go out for football all the
fall but quite got started, and Not only
has he lost ground in accomplishing something, but he
has lost opportunity for making friends because the
pick of the always the firing line, and
sequently the freshman who spends his afternoons
hanging around will probably have for company the
least desirable element in his class.
Provided man is human and does not permit the
for intellectual honors to make freak 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
portan because failure to grasp this fact has probably
been responsible for false starts, and consequent
untmely ending of college than any other all
ment that the freshman is heir to.
The freshman will do we'll not to allow himself to
worry the future. If he is properly busy he will
not have time to; but in any he should remember
that the first year apprenticeship to real par
cipaton in the life of the university that it is chance
get taste through his class organizations Cf
what is in later and to fit himself for the STIR
ring times of sophomore, junior and senior years. just
the university itself preparation for the inn,
portant business of life So he should try his hand here
and there and develop such latent ability he may
possess, and above all cut-
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will find duties and response C--rA T
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Finally, the freshman must ET VERIIAS J