[AS TO LECTURES AND STUDIES]
ATTENDANCE AT LECTURES
ON'T forget to attend a large per cent. of your lectures. The information dispensed in lectures is often to be found invaluable in passing the Examinations.
CHOOSING COURSES
Don't let yourself be mesmerized into taking a lot of things you feel a positive disinclination for. Many a Freshman has spoiled his first year in this way; and, failing to pass, has left College and become a street-car conductor or a clerk.
"SNAP" COURSES
Don't mistake the willingness to accept a "snap" course for a startling aptitude for a subject.
ELECTIVE SYSTEM
Don't abuse the Elective System if you are privileged to be at a College where it is employed. It is a system which presupposes your own interest in your intellectual welfare. It is too easy to fill up with a lot of unrelated subjects. You may say, "But I desire a broad education." Very good. Did you ever go to a circus? There the prettiest feats are performed upon the broad, spacious back of one horse. The rider gets the broadest-backed critter he can find that will keep moving. Those who ride two and three horses take a risk. In College you may find that when you try to do the intellectual split, you're liable to fall down between your horses.