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 it should be the outside work and not the studies. When a boy comes to the point of thinking that his extra-curriculum activities are of more importance to him than his studies he has adopted the wrong viewpoint.

There is too often in the cases of all college men who go in to these activities a desire to make money, and sometimes a desire to make money at the expense of the activity concerned or to its detriment. The man goes out for the job for what there is in it, not for what he can get out of it exclusive of the money remuneration. I believe that the work done in many college activities entitles the student to remuneration, but I do not know one in which the money is the main thing or should so be considered. The money which a student may earn in any one of the journalistic jobs about college for instance, in my mind is one of the least benefits which may accrue from the holding of such a position. When students in college activities become too grasping for the shekels they have missed the real advantages which should come from these enterprises.

I have been in favor of student activities because I believe that notwithstanding the dangers to which I have referred they are in a vast majority of cases helpful to the student. It can easily be shown that the fraternity men who are engaged in the general activities of college are in only ex-