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 past seven is no conclusive evidence that from that time on for the rest of the evening they are engaged in study. There is quite as much time wasted by college students during study hours as at any other period.

Because of the fact that the freshman is often for the first time having a taste of individual freedom it is harder for him to bind himself by rules, to set for himself a schedule for the disposal of his time, and yet such a procedure is for him the only safe one. If at the outset he will divide the day into three parts, giving two-thirds of it to sleep, eating and recreating and the remaining third to class attendance and study, unless he has a more than ordinarily heavy schedule of drawing or laboratory work, he will have made a pretty sensible and workable division. The freshman who is carrying a schedule made up in any large degree of drawing or laboratory science will need to retrench somewhat more upon his recreation time than I have indicated.

If the freshman could only realize that he is taking up a regular business as exacting and as important as any in which he will ever engage, if he could only see that if he is to get on in it he must work at it regularly, seriously, and with all the energy and interest he can summon, there would be fewer failures, fewer underclassmen