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HE Chemistry building is full today," an undergraduate said to me late in May as we were walking past that structure.

"What's the show?" I asked.

"Oh, it's the loafers and the procrastinators trying to make up for lost time."

It is a misconception not confined to youth that if you let Opportunity go by you, you can catch her easily by cutting round the corner.

"My son failed in two subjects last semester," a father wrote me this week. "Since he has now got the hang of college, will it not be possible next semester for him to carry these two subjects in addition to his regular course?" Having carried but nine hours one semester, most loafers feel confident that they can easily carry twenty-five the next.