This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... * MAROON TALES THE EXTRA MAJOR HE Quarterly Announcements are exceed- wiches and things in, and to fan with in class; also, they enable the sophomores to tell whether the "snaps" come at convenient periods. Some freshmen read them through to the last footnote--no one else ever does--under the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... * MAROON TALES THE EXTRA MAJOR HE Quarterly Announcements are exceed- wiches and things in, and to fan with in class; also, they enable the sophomores to tell whether the "snaps" come at convenient periods. Some freshmen read them through to the last footnote--no one else ever does--under the impression that they may take their choice of the courses, or perhaps in the belief that the big white folders are the veritable catalogues of their own accomplishments four years later. Both conceptions are interesting. But the freshmen need no warning against dangerous mental exertion. Only a few of them--those with abnormally developed foreheads--injure their health in that way. The rest are busy scurrying about the campus for the valuable something or other they think they are going to find. The something or other usually finds them; often on the first day, and They are good to wrap sandoccasionally when it seems almost too late. You may call it College Spirit, or merely an Idea. It is not in the Announcements. Phil Jennings, who used to insist upon making observations like these, modestly admitted that he had evolved them out of the adventures of his freshman year. When he threatened to go into details, his friends would groan cheerfully and tell him that the same old things happened to about a thousand others. But that, as Phil would solemnly remark, was precisely the point. Philip Howard Jennings, Jr., had no special convictions on the significance of the collegiate experience when he came to Chicago. He just hoped he would get a great deal out of the University, as his father had advised. This was rather fortunate, since opinionated freshmen are both unhappy and annoying; they suffer more or less when their notions sicken and die, and they...
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