Show Opinions ni li Elsewhere h j SO Sp THIS IS COLLEGE Because of the plan inaugurated last year and carried on again this year of having a week wecK known as Freshman Week creek the freshmen have bave only been attending class for ene one w week ek This plan s seems ems to have lave worked out a splendid result During the week the freshmen were acquainted with university life and happenings ings T They ey were taught school history s school hool customs customs and ancient traditions Without some sort of plan such as the one adopted last year freshmen fresh- fresh men nen would d only find these these things out by a slow process picking it up bit by bit from conversation heard icard on the campus pus The average high school graduate comes to college College college Col col- lege looking for lor son something ething entirely different ent from what he actually finds Many of them seem to havethe have havethe havethe the id idea a that n a a college student must wear 24 24 inch trouser bottoms and a n. bright red necktie anc and on the whole dress as near as possible like the cover ona on ona ona a recent College Humor magazine The humorists have painted college colleg- life in vivid colors They would have the world believe th that t the he college student has nothing to do but make of himself the so-called so sheik and go about waving a r red d handkerchief The truth of the whole m matter is that there is very little of such l life e on any college campus There are too many serious minded and purposeful 1 men and women women in college attendance for this sort of program And although nearly every paper and magazine published today would have us believe that the youth of today is all pleasure and no work it is our belief that the college of this age is just as serious just as earnest and just as splendid as the youth of any or all ages SOUTH DA DAKOTA OTA |