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 a lot, and we want to get it out of him before he has to go." There was no regret expressed at the boy's going except the possible financial regret, and there seldom is much in such cases. No self-respecting man, freshman or upperclassman, will allow himself to be carried in this way. He will so plan his expenditures that such money as is at his disposal will be sufficient to meet his obligations. Hundreds of freshmen whom I know who can receive from home only a moderate amount of money, by some sort of outside work are able to meet the added expenditures which they want to make. I know any number of such men who by the exercise of one talent or another pay easily and willingly for their own pleasures and enjoy them more fully for so doing.

I have always had the greatest respect for the student who by his own efforts pays his way through college, but I have come to feel also that the young fellow who spends wisely and conservatively the money which is sent him from home is, entitled to almost as much credit as the man who makes his own way.