Show FIRST YEAR YEA II 11 I 1 IN N COL COLLEGE LEdE greshle Presh le Is 9 often made dutt butt of a jest because of his hie freshness Z on oil tile lie campus tile tho athletic held field and the streets of tho the college town and in tho the dormitory the lecture roon room and the chapter house tile members of the freshman class aro are pre ly conspicuous lit in tile tho weeks of early i fall thore there uro tire many thousands of them lit in all parts of the land and to each of them it la Is an important not to 0 o pay ay an epoch period in their lives A time of test teat and trial it Is too filled with novel experiences which are rarely harrowing in tho the undergoing but which always become highly harrowing when told in later years the freshman la in college alho the sent senior or of last june who has now become a freshman again in the groat university of life has much to learn and not a little to unlearn golden opportunities are his serious responsibilities ties 1 which he occasionally mag nines b but ut more often does not realize and precious privileges such as the old graduate would give his all to possess once more the freshman Is often made the butt of a jest because of his fresh nees hut but even its wo we smile nt at him wo we feel fed deep in our licarte that his freshness is a treasure above all price the discipline at the hands handa of upper classmen clasemen class men tho the varied expert 1 encee I of undergraduate life and the work in classroom and laboratory which gradually change him from a n freshman to a senior also rob him of something which it Is a great pity to lose perhaps sonie some day a college will succeed in turning out mentors who are still freshmen it Is an ideal well worth the attention of the educational world it Is well to learn the great essential trutha and to have at command the loro of tho the ngos ages but the happiest mail inan and the man mosi most useful in the world la Is lie ho whose education tins has not been at the cost of tho the characteristics and the qualities tho the outlook and the th impulses which distinguished him na as a freshman youths companion |