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 could not do satisfactorily the work expected of him.

Another of the dangers which are attendant upon the going into college activities is the temptation which comes to not a few active students to attempt more outside work than it is possible or wise for one man to do. If the captain of the track team essays at the same time to be editor of the Agriculturist or the President of the Young Men's Christian Association assumes the additional obligations of baseball manager, both interests which each man represents will be likely to suffer and the men's grades will start rapidly toward the zero mark. College authorities are coming gradually to see that no matter how beneficial extra curriculum activities may be to the individual, it is the wisest policy to limit the number of activities into which any individual student may go. It will not be long, I believe, until this "point" system will be generally adopted by colleges so that the possibility of a student's injuring his work by too much attention to other things than his studies will be reduced to a minimum. Although as I said at the outset, I am a believer in college activities and am convinced that when entered into sanely they tend to develop good students with better than average grades, I should not want to ignore the dangers which lie in an unwise or a too active participation in outside