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 Athletic Association or the business manager of the Illini goes to pieces scholastically he not only injures his own interests, but he injures the cause of all students who shall later try for such positions. Those who argue against college activities will forget the scores of men who have done their college work well while carrying on legitimate outside work, and will remember only the two or three who failed to do so.

Some men overestimate the importance of college activities. They do not realize that however worthy such interests may be they must always be secondary to the real work of college. "I would rather be editor of the Illini than get my degree," a junior said to me only a short time ago. "I don't care particularly for my college work," another man confessed. "I really want to make the baseball team, and I am willing to do what work I must to accomplish this." Neither of these men had the right point of view. They were mistaking the real purpose of college activities and missing the main object of college training. A man might as well go into the drygoods business without the thought of earning anything but merely for the purpose of meeting a few attractive girls.

The custom now in most colleges, at least in most colleges of any size, is to award positions in college activities only after a somewhat prolonged competition, the position to go in the end to the