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 life of college students, which is quite like the life of mankind in general. The simple, homely truths of existence, the lessons of human intercourse here told us, the sound and helpful and kindly advice are not new in the world, but they must be taught over and over again, and they have not often been 80 well expressed. Because they have been well told, made real and vivid and impressive to the readers of the Daily Illini of the University of Illinois where they have appeared every Sunday for the past year or so, it has seemed desirable that they should be preserved.

Probably no one person needs the guidance or advice offered by many of these little sermons; one might react unfortunately to a reading of all of them at a sitting. But every one of them has gone home to some readers. Many of them have had surprising results. Within a few days after "The Uncertain Mail" first appeared no fewer than forty guilty consciences sought pardon from