College Freshman's Don't Book

<h2>AS TO COLLEGE ORGANIZATIONS AND FRIENDS</h2> <div class="sidenote">TRYING FOR THINGS</div> <div class="figleft"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_026.png" width-obs="150" height-obs="175" alt="S" /></div> <div class='unindent'><br/>ON'T hesitate to go out for <i>any teams</i> or <i>papers</i> or <i>musical clubs</i> which you think you'd like to make. The mere <i>trying for things</i> shows you're not a <i>dead one</i>. If you are good enough, you'll find these things mean more than you ever had thought they could; if you fail to make them, you'll never regret having tried. As you grow older, you will see that you <i>never</i> could have done certain things you thought you could, and you'll have a first-rate opinion of your former self and your ambition.</div> <div class="sidenote">SORTING OUT YOUR INTERESTS</div> <p><i>Don't</i> be surprised or disappointed,<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</SPAN></span> if you find you have neither time nor inclination to keep up with everything you thought you would, when first coming to College. Your interests naturally needed a <i>sorting out</i>.</p> <div class="sidenote">ONE WAY <i>NOT</i> TO MAKE A TEAM</div> <p><i>Don't</i> think that offering suggestions to an athletic <i>Coach</i> is the way to <i>make a team</i>. And don't answer back if the <i>Coach</i> speaks harshly to you; be thankful for <i>any</i> of his attention, even if it be gruff. With some Coaches, swearing is more than a liberal art; many think that the oftener they send their men to <i>Hell</i> during practice, the surer they are of sending them to <i>Victory</i> in the contest.</p> <div class="sidenote">ABOUT SOCIAL CLUBS</div> <p><i>Don't</i>, for Heaven's sake, ask people how one ought to go about getting into <i>Social clubs</i>. It isn't considered polite. Just <i>why</i>, I can't tell you; but you'll<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</SPAN></span> <i>learn why</i>, some day, if you are the <i>right sort</i>.</p> <div class="figleft"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_028a.png" width-obs="370" height-obs="600" alt="young man offering hand to man in bowler" /> <span class="caption">DONT ANSWER BACK IF THE COACH <i>SPEAKS HARSHLY</i> TO YOU</span></div> <div class="sidenote">ACQUAINTANCES AND FRIENDS</div> <p><i>Don't</i> hesitate to accept all chances for <i>making friends</i>, especially among your Class. Don't think that you can always control the making of friends; you <i>can't</i>. Friends are <i>Heaven-sent</i>. Hold the ones you make, and count yourself lucky if you make half a dozen <i>very</i> good friends your first year. There is a difference between <i>acquaintances</i> and <i>friends</i>, by the way, just as there is a difference between fellows to whom you'd casually offer a cigarette and those to whom you'd gladly offer your pocket-book.</p> <div class="sidenote">USELESS PREJUDICE</div> <p><i>Don't</i> rely too much on <i>prejudice</i> in deciding what certain fellows may or may not be good for. You <i>may or may not</i> be right. <i>Your</i> standard may or may not be the only small stone on the seashore.</p> <div class="sidenote">ABOUT VISITING</div> <p><i>Don't</i> invite everybody you meet to your room. It doesn't pay. But make a point of <i>accepting</i> as many invitations as possible which come from men you like. Visit any upper-classman who takes the trouble to offer you his hospitality. It may help you to <i>get on</i>, later.</p> <div class="sidenote">THAT HAND-SHAKE</div> <p><i>Don't</i> shake hands like a clam. The <i>flipper-shake</i> is not popular, and may make you distrusted. You'll need a good <i>hand-shake</i> all through College.</p> <div class="sidenote">THE WOMAN QUESTION: THE QUESTIONABLE</div> <p><i>Don't</i> be one of those who continually pick up anything on the street that wears a bonnet and high heels. There are lots of girls who are willing, at any time, to be seen with a College man. <i>The varieties differ</i>. Some are genuinely pretty; others wear the deliberate as distinguished from the natural complexion, being perhaps not so well preserved<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</SPAN><br/><SPAN name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</SPAN></span> as carefully preserved. Maybe you think it is great fun to take a partner into the small hotel dining-room with an "I-do-this-every-evening" kind of air. But you <i>may</i> find out, after smoking your brandy and drinking your cigarettes, that it <i>isn't</i> pleasant to be played for a "<i>good thing</i>."</p> <div class="sidenote">THE UNQUESTIONABLE</div> <p><i>Don't</i>, however, neglect any opportunity to meet ladies of your own station. You are <i>sure</i> to require their society from time to time. The Monastic life is not profitable for a man at College. The <i>purr of pretty women</i> and the occasional exchange of <i>amicable nothings</i> will preserve your social soul and keep the little <i>blood-pumping organ</i> in good condition.</p> <div class="sidenote">THE ART OF SHUTTING UP</div> <p><i>Don't</i> hesitate to hear other people's opinions. The World did not begin, nor will it end, with <i>you</i>.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="sidenote">WHERE SUCCESS FAILS</div> <p><i>Don't strut</i> or <i>look patronizing</i>, if you happen to have success; it makes people feel sorry for you.</p> <div class="sidenote">THE LITTLE THINGS</div> <p><i>Don't</i> forget the <i>little</i> things; fellows notice them. Some will even judge you by the way you give or receive a match or cigarette.</p> <div class="sidenote">SUMMING UP THE CLUB PROBLEM</div> <p><i>Don't</i> imagine that your entire success in College will be finally measured by the number of Clubs you make during your first year. Always remember, that it is the standing of the ones you identify yourself with which counts. Don't join <i>any</i> final Club or Society until you <i>feel pretty sure</i> you could not do <i>better</i>.</p> <hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />