College Freshman's Don't Book

<h2><SPAN name="AS_TO_DINING" id="AS_TO_DINING">AS TO DINING</SPAN></h2> <div class="sidenote">YOUR DINING PLACE</div> <div class="figleft"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_015.png" width-obs="151" height-obs="179" alt="D" /></div> <div class='unindent'><br/>ON'T begin by resorting habitually to the Quick Lunch. Nobody ever made <i>friends</i> at a Quick Lunch, except with the waitresses. Select a good place where there are lots of fellows whom you will see continually. You ought to pick out some good friends from among them.</div> <div class="sidenote">YOUR TABLE</div> <p><i>Don't</i> attempt, in a large dining hall, to get a place at a society, club, or athletic table for which you have <i>not yet qualified</i>. You are liable to <i>queer yourself</i> from the start.</p> <div class="sidenote">TABLE TALK</div> <p><i>Don't</i> try continually to air the sum of <i>knowledge</i> which you are<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</SPAN></span> just assimilating. There are <i>few</i> things more pathetic than the first-year chemist who keeps asking you at table to "pass the NaCl," or the fledgling psychologist who would try to prove that bread-and-butter is matter for <i>the mind</i> and not for <i>the stomach</i>.</p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_16a.png" width-obs="366" height-obs="600" alt="people leaving by the door with man still sitting at the table" /> <span class="caption">DONT MONOPOLIZE THE <i>CONVERSATION</i> AT THE TABLE</span></div> <div class="sidenote">LOCAL EGOTISM</div> <p><i>Don't</i> keep telling how they do things in that part of the country which <i>you</i> come from. The assumption is, that since you came to College, you are willing to <i>learn something</i> of how they do things here.</p> <div class="sidenote">LISTENING TO OTHERS</div> <p><i>Don't monopolize the conversation</i> at the table, especially if there are older men around. You'll get yourself snubbed if you talk <i>too</i> much about <i>yourself</i>. Fellows don't care much whether your grandfather kept a brake and ten horses, or drove a "shay" over the <i>plank-road</i>. Be a good listener. Then, too, older men<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</SPAN></span> <i>like</i> to be listened to. The chances are you will learn a <i>sight</i> more by hearing them than they will by hearing <i>you</i>.</p> <div class="sidenote">KNOCKING THE GRUB</div> <p><i>Don't</i> continually <i>find fault</i> with the things you have to eat. Act as if you were used <i>to eating away from home</i>. Half the time the jokes you make at the expense of the food come merely from an uncontrollable desire to air your wit. "Knocking the grub" doesn't require <i>half</i> so much brains or individuality as <i>shutting up</i> about it.</p> <hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />