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Show ; Who Is that verdant -looking guy In green and purple sweater. : Which bears th Il tiers "C. H S "? Why doesn't hs know better? He was an ath-a-letle star A husky football wonder Back In some effete fitting school. But. golly, what a blunder For him to wear that prep affair, For when the soph'mores lamp him I They'll soak him with a canvas club, And with cold water damp him. They have a pleasing custom at Dartmouth. Long years of experience hae taught tho undergraduates of, thai institution Just how to handle tho verdant freshman; just how to school him and make a man of him. Each summer the prospective freshman fresh-man gets a nice long letter of advice, i sen! him by the Y. M. G. A at Han-j lover, which handles such matters In, tho absence of the student body ... This letter tells the freshman pretty much all tho things he should know I Among other things It gives him this wonderful bit of advice ... , If you have any prep school medals,, j or sweaters with letters on them, or 'any other symbols Of athletic prowess 1 LEAVE Til EM AT Hi 'ME ... Of course, the above is not quoted, literally from the letter Not BV p the M C. A would use such words as symbols and prowess in writing lo a freshman. They give It to him in words of one syllable . . . Anyhow, the letter goes on to say that it is advisable for the freshman to leave all evidences of athletic skill at home because those high school trifles don't mean anything at college and he is coming to Hanover to begin a new life " ... Now that's coining advice There is nothing that hampers a freshman's early career In college like conceit, i if course, all freshmen are conceited, but the freshman w no can conceal his conceit will aold a lot of trouble. j ... High school gridiron, track and diamond dia-mond honors really do count for a' great deal In his college life. They! help freshmen to make good fraterni-j ties and achieve other campus honors; more easily than the student with the bulging brow who doesn't know a base hit from a no-trump declaration.1 ... But this fact should not he known to the freshman He shouldn t try to' display his honors For If he does., he Is likely to get cold water thrown ' on him at midnight and to have his kumpus kut, trousers warmed with the glastlcuticus, which 13 a canvas bag stuffed with excelsior. . ... That's why the Dartmouth V Is do- ing a great service in warning thd freshmen to le-ive their medals at! home I |