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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of The College Freshman's Don't Book. This is
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Kevin Davidson. The College Freshman's Don't Book in
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  Speaker 1: the interests of freshmen at large, especially those whose remaining
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  Speaker 1: at large uninstructed and unguided appears a worry and a
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  Speaker 1: menace to the college and university society. These remarks and
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  Speaker 1: hints are set forth by G. F. E. A. B.
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  Speaker 1: A sympathizer by George Fullerton Evans. As to the place,
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  Speaker 1: don't imagine that you own the college town for the
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  Speaker 1: moment you strike it. Remember there are prior claims, and
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  Speaker 1: you're not the first squatter. Don't expect the college town
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  Speaker 1: to furnish you with good weather, because it won't. The
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  Speaker 1: weather is generally the only thing about a college town
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  Speaker 1: not yet educated. Of course, if you happen to have
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  Speaker 1: come from Lapland or Patagonia and do not know what
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  Speaker 1: good weather is, the weather here may suit you. The
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  Speaker 1: oldest inhabitants in a college town live to be very old.
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  Speaker 1: This is to be accounted for by the fact that
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  Speaker 1: they are kept alive by their curiosity to see what
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  Speaker 1: kind of weather is going to develop next. Don't forget
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  Speaker 1: that sight seeing. Relatives and others coming on a visit
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  Speaker 1: to the college must see the library, the gymnasium, the
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  Speaker 1: dining hall, and the athletic field. These and the campus
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  Speaker 1: are generally all the sites there are. It is well
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  Speaker 1: to get this list carefully in mind early, as it
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  Speaker 1: saves you from a panic at the last minute. You
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  Speaker 1: often think that you will explore the place and get
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  Speaker 1: something new to show people, but this you never do.
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  Speaker 1: The above list is a fairly accurate one, and it
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  Speaker 1: suffices those whom you are guiding about always pretend they
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  Speaker 1: are dreadfully interested and excited about everything in turn. On
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  Speaker 1: your first trip as official guide, you yourself see a
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  Speaker 1: great deal. On your fiftieth, try not to. End of
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  Speaker 1: chapter one. Recording by Kevin Davidson Www dot blog or
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  Speaker 2: Chapter two of The College Freshman's Don't Book. This is
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  Speaker 2: The College Freshman's Don't Book by George Fullerton Evans two.
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  Speaker 2: As to settling down your arrival, don't think that your
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  Speaker 2: mere arrival at college has made you able to leave
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  Speaker 2: Atlas in holding up the world. The world's idea of
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  Speaker 2: you at this point is that you're something like a goldfish.
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  Speaker 2: Just let loose in a glass globe. It will begin
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  Speaker 2: to expect something of you when you're dumped into the
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  Speaker 2: big ocean your residence. Don't, if you can possibly sidestep it,
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  Speaker 2: begin to live in a place which you do not like.
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  Speaker 2: The blue willies may lurk in the corners. Many a
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  Speaker 2: freshman changes his residence about the mid year because he
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  Speaker 2: has not made a careful selection at first. The moving
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  Speaker 2: often entails cracked wash bowls, broken pictures and casts, stifled oaths,
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  Speaker 2: and a sense of great unrests not appropriate to the season.
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  Speaker 2: Your landlady. Don't treat your landlady shabbily if you happen
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  Speaker 2: to live in a private house. Some landladies are the
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  Speaker 2: best souls in the world. All of them are proud
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  Speaker 2: and descended from the best early families. You have only
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  Speaker 2: to take their word for this. Though they are often inquisitive,
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  Speaker 2: their inquisitiveness often comes from their genuine interest in you. Sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: the more they know of your family history, the less
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  Speaker 2: they will charge you for oil and gas at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the month. Her rights don't begin too early
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  Speaker 2: in the term to make your landlady's house a noisy abode.
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  Speaker 2: She may get impatient and do something hasty, such as
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  Speaker 2: even demanding your key payment and evacuation. In such an event,
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  Speaker 2: you see the full meaning of her appellation. Whereas before
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  Speaker 2: you might have thought that the word lands in her
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  Speaker 2: title meant to catch, as to lend a fish, you
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  Speaker 2: now see that it is primarily derived from her ability
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  Speaker 2: to come down hard on a special occasion the dusting lady.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be discouraged if you can't find anything in the
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  Speaker 2: right place after the dusting lady has put things in order.
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  Speaker 2: It's a way they have your room. Don't neglect taste
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  Speaker 2: in your room. How do you know but that somebody
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  Speaker 2: may judge you by the way you decorate your study.
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  Speaker 2: Presumably you are not raised in a barn, and there
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  Speaker 2: can be no harm in letting the appearance of your
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  Speaker 2: room bear out this fact fitting it up. Don't try
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  Speaker 2: to make a royal residence of your room. Your taste
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  Speaker 2: may alter a college man's taste often undergoes rapid and
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  Speaker 2: violent revolution for the better within the first year. A
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  Speaker 2: word about rugs. Don't think that you must have Turkish rugs.
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  Speaker 2: Generally a freshman cannot tell the real article when he
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  Speaker 2: sees it. The man at the sale may try to
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  Speaker 2: make you believe that they'll never wear out. Never mind,
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  Speaker 2: you have only to get them to know what he means.
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  Speaker 2: Just get some old, reliable patterns. There is a secret
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  Speaker 2: connected with this. The older and dirtier they get, the
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  Speaker 2: more oriental they look. You've no idea how much sweeping
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  Speaker 2: this saves. About bric a brac, don't go in for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of fine china the first term. How can
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  Speaker 2: you tell but that your neighbors or visitors may not
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  Speaker 2: care as much for that sort of thing as you.
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  Speaker 2: Remember that in a room where costly china lies about
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  Speaker 2: in profusion, a rough house may be a more expensive
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  Speaker 2: variety of entertainment than grand opera with seats for the family.
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  Speaker 2: About decorations, don't get angry. If a senior comes into
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  Speaker 2: your room and looks about and smiles, Probably he's only
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  Speaker 2: remembering that he once decorated his room the way you
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  Speaker 2: now do yours. Just keep your eyes open when you
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  Speaker 2: go into the older fellow's room. You'll soon learn that
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  Speaker 2: two crossed college flags, a vile plaster copy of the
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  Speaker 2: Venus de Milo, and a copy of the bari Leon
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  Speaker 2: as sole decorations may be lived down or later pulled down.
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  Speaker 2: If you wish to be exceptionally original, don't go in
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  Speaker 2: for either the flags or the cats. Yet. In following years,
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  Speaker 2: these things may become good old friends to remind you
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  Speaker 2: that you were once a freshman. About furniture, don't overdo
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  Speaker 2: with respect to furniture, even if you can afford it.
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  Speaker 2: It may make some of your visitors uncomfortable. If you
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  Speaker 2: can't afford it, you'll be made uncomfortable yourself. The college color,
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  Speaker 2: don't mistake the color of your college a good many
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  Speaker 2: freshmen do this. It is especially pathetic, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: to see a freshman waving a flag which is off
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  Speaker 2: color at a big game. Sometimes when the stake is
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  Speaker 2: attributed to color blindness, this is a charitable interpretation. About
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  Speaker 2: that study desk, don't buy a roll top desk or
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  Speaker 2: an iron safe during your first year. You know you
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  Speaker 2: may not care to occupy one room all through college.
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  Speaker 2: We heard of one house having to be torn down
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  Speaker 2: that a freshman might move out with his roll top desk.
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  Speaker 2: Not only this, but when he failed to find another place,
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  Speaker 2: a house had to be built up around his comfersome furniture.
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  Speaker 2: It was a case of this or his rooming in
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  Speaker 2: the desk. Getting on, don't think that you have fairly
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  Speaker 2: got on to things while the tray of your trunk
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  Speaker 2: is still inn act. Taking a hazing, don't look too
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  Speaker 2: sober if hazing happens to be in vogue and the
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  Speaker 2: sophomores order you about. Remember that you can make the
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  Speaker 2: affair either a funeral or a farce, and it's pleasanter
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  Speaker 2: to be the leading man of a farce than to
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  Speaker 2: be the principle of a funeral. The best way to
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  Speaker 2: get along with the sophomores is to take them good naturedly.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be nauseatingly sacchering, for that's just about as bad
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  Speaker 2: as getting mad about it. Just fool them into thinking
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  Speaker 2: you're enjoying yourself and they'll stop a trick. About receiving visitors,
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  Speaker 2: don't neglect to receive your visitors as if you were
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  Speaker 2: glad to see them. This is not encouraging hypocrisy. And
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  Speaker 2: as much as the recommendation need not include the laundryman
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  Speaker 2: or the tailor's collector, you couldn't fool them anyway. It
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  Speaker 2: is not polite when visitors come. Always to be found
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  Speaker 2: with a green shade over your eyes. When a visitor calls,
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  Speaker 2: look as if you had just been waiting for someone
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  Speaker 2: to talk to. If you improve your time between visitors,
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  Speaker 2: they ought not to cause you to waste any valuable time.
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  Speaker 2: Musical temperance, don't play the piano at all hours. Have
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  Speaker 2: a regular time for practice that your neighbors may protect themselves.
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  Speaker 2: If you play the violin or the trumpet, don't overdo it.
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  Speaker 2: You are tempting fate the proctor. Don't incur the anger
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  Speaker 2: of your proctor by noisy conduct or disrespect. Proctors, especially
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  Speaker 2: young ones, are apt to feel their oats and to
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  Speaker 2: report you on slight provocation. But a friendly proctor is
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  Speaker 2: a friend worth having. End of chapter two. As to
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  Speaker 2: settling Down recording by Kate Zedepsky in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter three of the College Freshmen's Don't Book. This is
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  Speaker 3: Recording by Greg Giardano. The College Freshman's Don't Book by
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  Speaker 3: George Fullerton Evans, Chapter three. As to dress, don't wear
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  Speaker 3: your prep's school hat band or flash your high school
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  Speaker 3: fraternity pin upon your almost manly chest. These are stock
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  Speaker 3: idiosyncrasies of the freshman. Just remember that school fashions do
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  Speaker 3: not prevail at college. Don't dress too sporty during the
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  Speaker 3: first term. The effects you try to imitate at this
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  Speaker 3: period of the game are apt to be only the
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  Speaker 3: superficial and amusing ones. Don't wear long hair. Hair, if
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  Speaker 3: left to grow as it listeth, may attain to a
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  Speaker 3: surprising length within a single season. The freshman year is
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  Speaker 3: not the time to test the accuracy of this statement.
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  Speaker 3: Wait till you are a sophomore. Then you won't care
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  Speaker 3: to remember that long hair is the poet's privilege, though
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  Speaker 3: not always proof of a poet. To wear long hair,
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  Speaker 3: you had better take out a poet's license in this respect.
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  Speaker 3: A dog glisons will do if you fail to qualify
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  Speaker 3: as poet. Don't feel it incumbent upon you to wear
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  Speaker 3: a beard or a mustache. You happen to have raised
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  Speaker 3: one on the farm or in England during the summer.
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  Speaker 3: Whiskers are the plus sign of masculinity. Upper classmen do
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  Speaker 3: not appreciate them in freshmen. Don't wear too much jewelry,
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  Speaker 3: as an over amount of it suggests trips to places
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  Speaker 3: where they loan money. Don't affect stick pins bearing large
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  Speaker 3: horses heads or horse shoes, thinking these will demonstrate that
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  Speaker 3: you keep a gig. The horsy ornaments, cannotes, the coachman's
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  Speaker 3: white tie, and the odor of the stable. Don't carry
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  Speaker 3: a cane in your freshman year. Something is very likely
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  Speaker 3: to happen to it. Don't be found displaying a tall hat.
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  Speaker 3: A tall hat is a mighty nice thing for sister's
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  Speaker 3: wedding at home, but better leave it there. Its dignity
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  Speaker 3: is liable to fade. Like the glory that was Greece
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  Speaker 3: and the grandeur that was Rome, it was only because
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  Speaker 3: those nations got too chesty. You remember that the vandals
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  Speaker 3: of old worried them. Don't think that crazy or odd
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  Speaker 3: clothes are necessarily college clothes. Lots of college men do
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  Speaker 3: wear crazy clothes, but it isn't so much because they
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  Speaker 3: are college men as because they're crazy don't forget to
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  Speaker 3: dress neatly and up to your own means. You owe
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  Speaker 3: it to yourself to dress as well as you can.
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  Speaker 3: I don't mean that owing this to yourself should necessitate
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  Speaker 3: your continually owing something to your tailor. You do not
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  Speaker 3: owe it to yourself to owe anybody. End of chapter three.
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  Speaker 3: Recording by Greg Giardano, a Newport Ritchie, Florida. Chapter four
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  Speaker 3: of The College Freshmen's Don't Book. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 3: by Gregg Giardano, The College Freshmen's Don't Book by George
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  Speaker 3: Fullerton Evans. Chapter four. As to dining, don't begin by
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  Speaker 3: resorting habitually to the quick lunch. Nobody ever made friends
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  Speaker 3: at a quick lunch, except with the waitresses. Select a
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  Speaker 3: good place where there are lots of fellows whom you
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  Speaker 3: will see continually. You ought to pick out some good
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  Speaker 3: friends from among them. Don't attempt in a large dining
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  Speaker 3: hall to get a place at a society club or
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  Speaker 3: athletic table for which you have not yet qualified. You
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  Speaker 3: are liable to queer yourself from the start. Don't try
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  Speaker 3: continually to air the sum of knowledge which you are
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  Speaker 3: just assimilating. There are few things more pathetic than the
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  Speaker 3: first your chemist who keeps asking you a table to
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  Speaker 3: pass the NaCl or the fledgling psychologist who would try
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  Speaker 3: to prove that bread and butter is matter for the
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  Speaker 3: mind and not for the stomach. Don't keep telling how
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  Speaker 3: they do things in that part of the country which
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  Speaker 3: you come from. The assumption is that since you came
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  Speaker 3: to college, you are willing to learn something of how
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  Speaker 3: they do things here. Don't monopolize the conversation at the table,
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  Speaker 3: especially if there are older men around. You'll get yourself
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  Speaker 3: snubbed if you talk too much about yourself. Fellows, don't
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  Speaker 3: care much whether your grandfather kept a break and ten
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  Speaker 3: horses or drove a shay over the plank road. Be
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  Speaker 3: a good listener, then, too, older men like to be
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  Speaker 3: listens to. The chances are you will learn a site
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  Speaker 3: more by hearing them than they will by hearing you.
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  Speaker 3: Don't continually find faults with the things you have to eat.
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  Speaker 3: Act as if you were used to eating away from
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  Speaker 3: home half the time. The jokes you make at the
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  Speaker 3: expense of the food come merely from an uncontrollable desire
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  Speaker 3: to air your wit. Knocking the grub doesn't require half
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  Speaker 3: so much brains or individuality as shutting up about it.
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  Speaker 3: End of chapter four. As to dining recording by Greg Giardano, Newport, Ritchie, Florida.
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  Speaker 4: Chapter five of The College Freshman's Don't Book. This is
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  Speaker 4: Recording by Anne Boulet. The College Freshman's Don't Book by
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  Speaker 4: George Fullerton Evans, Chapter five. As to lectures and studies,
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  Speaker 4: don't forget to attend a large percent of your lectures.
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  Speaker 4: The information dispensed in lectures is often to be found
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  Speaker 4: invaluable in passing the examinations. Don't let yourself be mesmerized
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  Speaker 4: into taking a lot of things you feel a positive disinclination.
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  Speaker 4: For many a freshman has spoiled his first year in
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  Speaker 4: this way, and failing to pass, has left college and
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  Speaker 4: become a street car conductor or a clerk. Don't mistake
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  Speaker 4: the willingness to accept a snap course for a startling
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  Speaker 4: aptitude for a subject. Don't abuse the elective system. If
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  Speaker 4: you are privileged to be at a college where it
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  Speaker 4: is employed. It is a system which presupposes your own
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  Speaker 4: interest in your intellectual welfare. It is too easy to
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  Speaker 4: fill up with a lot of unrelated subjects. You may say,
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  Speaker 4: but I desire a broad education. Very good. Did you
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  Speaker 4: ever go to a circus there? The prettiest feats are
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  Speaker 4: performed upon the broad, spacious back of one horse. The
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  Speaker 4: rider gets the broadest back critter he can find that
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  Speaker 4: will keep moving. Those who ride two and three horses
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  Speaker 4: take a risk in college. You may find that when
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  Speaker 4: you try to do the intellectual split, you're liable to
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  Speaker 4: fall down between your horses. Don't neglect any honest opportunities
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  Speaker 4: you may have to make friends with an instructor or
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  Speaker 4: a professor. Meeting teachers represents a privilege and not always
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  Speaker 4: necessarily a poll. As for knowing professors intimately, few do
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  Speaker 4: accept other professors. As for their knowing us intimately, it
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  Speaker 4: might seem as if this seldom happens until it comes
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  Speaker 4: time to expel us. Don't try to fool the college
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  Speaker 4: doctor into blo be leaving that you can't go to
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  Speaker 4: lectures or are going to die because you've sprained your
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  Speaker 4: left thumb. Generally, the college doctor is a shrewd man,
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  Speaker 4: or he would not be a college doctor. Don't fail
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  Speaker 4: to make a list of the required reading in any course,
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  Speaker 4: and do some of it. Say a little more than
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  Speaker 4: will enable you merely to pass the exam. It is
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  Speaker 4: barely possible that the reading you have done in connection
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  Speaker 4: with your college courses will someday prove you an educated man.
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  Speaker 4: As for doing all the reading that all the professors require, well,
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  Speaker 4: a fellow must sleep and eat. Don't think that exams
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  Speaker 4: can be passed without any preparation. It takes some. The
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  Speaker 4: minimum has not yet been determined, nor has the maximum.
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  Speaker 4: The minimum has even been known to vary according as
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  Speaker 4: the instructor imagines that the crowd is or is not
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  Speaker 4: taking the course as a snap. The little birdies are
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  Speaker 4: surely in league with the faculty. Don't rely upon special
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  Speaker 4: tutors to pass all your courses. It's lazy and not
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  Speaker 4: entirely self respecting. When our friend Dulliver went to Laputa,
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  Speaker 4: he met certain teachers who gave their pupils small intellectual wafers.
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  Speaker 4: These they swallowed upon empty stomachs as the wafers digested,
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  Speaker 4: the tincture mounted to the pupil's brain, bearing the proposition
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  Speaker 4: along with it. The same system of cramming exists today,
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  Speaker 4: only it doesn't always work as advertised. A fellow resorts
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  Speaker 4: to special tutors when he has lost confidence and needs
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  Speaker 4: an intellectual narcotic. Special tutors require the drug capsule of learning.
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  Speaker 4: Why be a dope fiend. Don't try in your exams
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  Speaker 4: to make a hit by writing long papers. The exam
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  Speaker 4: is not an endurance contest somehow. Long papers don't take
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  Speaker 4: unless there is some sense and everything you have written.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't believe this, try it and find out.
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  Speaker 4: Don't rely wholly upon typewritten notes to get through your courses.
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  Speaker 4: Many college professors show no quarter to those who may
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  Speaker 4: ascertain to be addicted to this predigested form of information.
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  Speaker 4: Often the professor's life specialty is the tracing of literary
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  Speaker 4: works to their sources, So be careful. Better take notes
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  Speaker 4: in lectures. If this serve no other purpose, twill keep
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  Speaker 4: you awake. Don't put off that long piece of written
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  Speaker 4: work till the night before it is due, a piece
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  Speaker 4: of work about which you have been worn months beforehand
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  Speaker 4: can't be done between eight pm and three am. Here
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  Speaker 4: rush orders contrary to the rule spoil. If you come
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  Speaker 4: up to the scratch as you should in the matter
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  Speaker 4: of long pieces of written work, the instructor will almost
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  Speaker 4: forget how dog gone lazy you have been all along
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  Speaker 4: in the little things. Don't idle away time to such
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  Speaker 4: an extent that you get a reputation as an idler,
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  Speaker 4: either among your friends or with the members of the faculty.
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  Speaker 4: You'll find such a reputation hard to live down. Notwithstanding
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  Speaker 4: the fact that everyone is supposed to come by a
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  Speaker 4: love of learning in college, there are some things which
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  Speaker 4: the faculty will not take for granted. With the faculty,
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: the chronic idler will find that his name is anathema
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: or denis. At least, don't fail to keep in mind
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: the flight of steps which represents the descent from the
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: plane of regular work. It goes something like this work
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: slack work, probation, special probation. Then I'm sorry to inform
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  Speaker 4: you that the faculty has decided that you are no
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  Speaker 4: longer needed to ornament the college, et cetera. After which
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: it is the grease slide down and out, so to speak.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: In other words, you are about to feel the thrill
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: of academic life along your keel for the last time.
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  Speaker 4: Facilis desends us a vernie avernas being the cold, cold world,
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  Speaker 4: and the bother of having to explain to one's relations
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: and friends in the hometown how it all happened. Don't
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: show disrespect or contempt for the college dean or for
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: the routine you within his gates. Once you queer yourself
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  Speaker 4: with the college office, you are on a dangerous footing,
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  Speaker 4: and the college degree you seek is no longer seen
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  Speaker 4: to be constant as the northern star. Keep the degree
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  Speaker 4: in mind, hitch your wagon to it, but don't get
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  Speaker 4: too ambitious in the way of degrees. We once heard
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  Speaker 4: of a fellow who was called up and given the
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  Speaker 4: third degree by the faculty, without ever being graduated. End
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  Speaker 4: of chapter five.
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  Speaker 5: Chapter six of The College Freshman's Don't Book. This is
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  Speaker 5: The College Freshman's Don't Book by George Fullerton Evans six.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: As to college organizations and friends trying for things, don't
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  Speaker 5: hesitate to go out for any teams or papers or
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  Speaker 5: musical clubs which you think you'd like to make. The
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  Speaker 5: mere trying for things shows you're not a dead one.
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  Speaker 5: If you are good enough, you'll find these things mean
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: more than you ever thought they could. If you fail
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: to make them, you'll never regret having tried. As you
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: grow older, you will see that you never could have
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: done certain things you thought you could, and you'll have
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  Speaker 5: a first rate opinion of your former self and your ambition.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Sorting out your interests. Don't be surprised or disappointed if
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: you find you have neither time nor inclination to keep
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: up with everything you thought you would when first coming
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: to college. Your interests naturally need a sorting out. One
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: way not to make the team. Don't think that offering
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: suggestions to an athletic coach is the way to make
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: a team, and don't answer back if the coach speaks
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: harshly to you. Be thankful for any of his attention,
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: even if it be gruff. With some coaches, swearing is
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: more than a liberal art. Many think that the oftener
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: they send their men to hell during practice, the surer
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: they are of sending them to victory. In the contest
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: about social clubs. Don't, for heaven's sake, ask people how
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: one ought to go about getting into social clubs. It
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: isn't considered polite. Just why I can't tell you, But
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: you'll learn why some day if you are the right sort.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: Acquaintances and friends. Don't hesitate to accept all chances for
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: making friends, especially among your class. Don't think that you
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: can always control the making of friends. You can't. Friends
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: are heaven sent only the ones you make, and count
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: yourself lucky if you make half a dozen very good
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: friends your first year. There is a difference between acquaintances
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: and friends, by the way, just as there is a
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: difference between fellows to whom you'd casually offer a cigarette
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: and those to whom you'd gladly offer your pocketbook. Useless prejudice,
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: don't rely too much on prejudice in deciding what certain
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: fellows may or may not be good for you. May
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: or may not be right. Your standard may or may
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: not be the only small stone on the seashore. About visiting,
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: don't invite everybody you meet to your room. It doesn't pay,
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: But make a point of accepting as many invitations as possible,
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: which come from men you like. Visit any upper classman
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: who takes the trouble to offer you his hospitality. It
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: may help you get on later that handshake. Don't shake
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: hands like a clam The flipp or shake is not
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: popular and may make you distrusted. You'll need a good
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: hand shake all through college. The woman question the questionable.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Don't be one of those who continually pick up anything
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: on the street that wears a bonnet and high heels.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: There are lots of girls who are willing at any
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: time to be seen with a college man. The varieties differ.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Some are genuinely pretty, others where the deliberate as distinguished
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: from the natural complexion, being perhaps not so well preserved
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: as carefully preserved. Maybe you think it is great fun
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  Speaker 5: to take a partner into the small hotel dining room
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: with an I do this every evening kind of air.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: But you may find out, after smoking your brandy and
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: drinking your cigarettes, that it isn't pleasant to be played
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: for a good thing. The unquestionable. Don't, however, neglect any
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: opportunity to meet ladies of your own station. You are
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: sure to require their society from time to time. The
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: monastic life is not profitable for a man at college.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: The purr of pretty women and the occasional exchange of
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: amicable nothings will preserve your social soul and keep the
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: little blood pumping organ in good condition. The art of
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: shutting up. Don't hesitate to hear other people's opinions. The
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: world did not begin, nor will it end with you
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: where success fails. Don't strut or look patronizing. If you
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: happen to have success, it makes people feel sorry for
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: you the little things. Don't forget the little things fellows
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: notice them. Some will even judge you by the way
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: you give or receive a match or cigarette. Summing up
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: the club problem, don't imagine that your entire success in
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  Speaker 5: college will be finally measured by the number of clubs
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  Speaker 5: you make during your first year. Always remember that it
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: is the standing of the ones you identify yourself with
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: witch counts. Don't join any final club or society until
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: you feel pretty sure you could not do better. End
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: of chapter six. As to college organizations and friends, Chapter
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  Speaker 5: seven of the College Freshmen's Don't Book. This is a
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  Speaker 5: The College Freshman's Don't Book by George Fullerton Evans seven.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: As to things in general, saving and wasting, don't expect
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  Speaker 5: to lay up a bank account by what you say
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  Speaker 5: from living inside your allowance. There are lots of unexpected
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: things coming up which cost money. Only be careful and
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: choose the things that seem necessary. You can't save much money,
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: but you don't have to waste a cent to live
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: and be a gentleman. Writing home, don't forget to write
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: home once every so often. Mama and Papa are always
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: glad to see the college town postmark, and like as not,
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Papa is paying your way through college. Think how you'd
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  Speaker 5: feel if he forgot sometimes to send that check when
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: father comes to town. Don't treat father or Uncle John
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  Speaker 5: shabbily if one of them happens in town unexpectedly. Maybe
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: you'll have a son or a nephew in the old
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: place one day. Then you'll like to take a run
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  Speaker 5: out once in a while and see how things are
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: getting on. Showing off at home, don't swagger when you
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: go home for your first Thanksgiving or Christmas vacation. It
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: doesn't make your friends envious of you. It's apt to
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: make them sore running bills. Don't think that, because you
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: can charge things at almost any store in the college town,
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: it is your duty to have your name on the
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: books of every firm. You don't need to back every enterprise. Besides,
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: most every firm has a habit of rendering monthly bills,
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: and a few of these make even a fair allowance
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: look washed out and faded. That automobile, don't think that
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: it is your father's duty to present you with an automobile.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: In father's day, it was possible for a boy to
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: go through college without one of these things. Remember that
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: it cost a few pence to repair them and run them,
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: or rather run them and then repair them. And father's
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: twenty years in business have taught him a few things.
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: Many a father would as soon buy his son an auto,
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: but is not willing to endow one. About pawning your watch,
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: don't pawn your watch or sleeve links during your first year.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: This privilege is limited to upper classmen who do society.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: A pawn ticket is a very compromising thing. If found
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: by some of your close relatives. You don't know what
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: it is. It is a thin slip of paper, somewhat
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: resembling a check, only it weighs more heavily on the mind.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: No matter how funny a story you make at home
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: of pawning your grandfather's watch, the heads of the family
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: never see the joke. When you rake in the price
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: of exchange for your ponned watch, it seems just like
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: finding money, But when you pay it back out of
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: a slim allowance at the end of the month, it
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: seems like losing the same amount, plus getting hooked on.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: Don't buy cigars in wholesale quantities from mysterious looking foreigners
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  Speaker 5: who say they have just done a neat little job
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  Speaker 5: of smuggling from Havana and are willing to let you
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  Speaker 5: in on a good thing. They may even flatter you
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: by telling you that you look trustworthy. They really mean
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: that you look easy. It's your move, beggars. Don't give
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: money to able bodied beggars. Some may even speak good
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  Speaker 5: French or German. If you happen to be taking French
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  Speaker 5: or German, you will imagine that you are the only
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  Speaker 5: one in the world who can help them. But don't yield.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: As for crippled or blind and deaf beggars, help them
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: now and then you don't have to listen to their
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: reminiscences of life in a sawmill to do this, unless
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  Speaker 5: you care for that sort of thing. Questions of conscience
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  Speaker 5: your own business. Don't kill your conscience in regard to
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: matters which you have been brought up to see in
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  Speaker 5: certain definite lights. If you think playing cards for money
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  Speaker 5: and the drinking of beer wrong, then don't play and
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  Speaker 5: don't indulge. You'll never be thought less of in college
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  Speaker 5: for hanging on to principle. Just be sure that your
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  Speaker 5: principles are worth sticking up for, and then stick A
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: wise old Englishman puts it this way. Obey your conscience,
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  Speaker 5: but just be sure that your conscience is not that
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  Speaker 5: of an ass. The fifty two Pasteboards don't get into
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  Speaker 5: the little game too often. Under certain conditions, it's as
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  Speaker 5: easy as rolling off the decalogue. Sometimes you get in
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  Speaker 5: because you're afraid others will think you are afraid to play.
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  Speaker 5: This is really not courage a word more. When you're in,
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  Speaker 5: often the time when you think you can't afford to
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  Speaker 5: stop is just the time when you can best afford it.
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  Speaker 5: Take this advice. It is better than that of our
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: emorse spending money. Don't keep spending money for a lot
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  Speaker 5: of things that you would hardly care to white am
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  Speaker 5: eyes in the account you send to father. Remember how
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  Speaker 5: he said, I'll keep you decently, only I don't want
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  Speaker 5: college to make only a sport of my boy. Sometimes,
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: when you are oppressed, you think of asking father to
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  Speaker 5: lend you money to be paid back with interest when
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: you get older. Don't be surprised if he refuses and asks,
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: where's your collateral? Remember that the business world, hunting about
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: for something to which to attach its respect and admiration,
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: does not single out the undergraduate in college earning money.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: Don't be ashamed of chances to earn money in college
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: if you need it. More fellows earn their way through
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  Speaker 5: college than you have any idea of college men have
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: lots of respect for a fellow who isn't ashamed to
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: work the dead game act. Don't be a sport or
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: a snob. Either is fatal. The dead game act plays
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: itself out sooner than those who work it suppose, and
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: serves oftener to point a weakness than adorn a virtue imitating.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Don't imitate the manner of some one else when you
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: try to be like some one else, You only succeed
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: in being unlike yourself. People don't expect or want you
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  Speaker 5: to be like them. The fancy income pose. Don't pretend
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: that you have a fancy income if you haven't. It's
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: a cheap, expensive pose. Lots of fellows get money regularly
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  Speaker 5: from home. All they have to do, it would seem,
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: is to rip open letters and sign their names on
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: the back of what falls out. If you aren't in
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: this class, don't pretend you are. It isn't how much
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: money you've got, but how you make what you've got
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: to do That shows you up a good one. That
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: shows you up a good one. That bank account, don't
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: fail to keep an eye on that bank account. It
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: slowly and surely dwindles. It needs watching, especially about the
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: time the elms put on their new leaves and the
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: undergraduates their new flannel trousers. To end the year with
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: an overdrawn bank account is risky. No fellow can afford
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: to have his credit go below par. Exercise, don't neglect
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: the health habit. Substitute the tennis racket for the cigarette
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: one of these days, and note the difference. It may
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: make you feel like a king in the pink of condition,
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: after which you'll probably try it again, which won't hurt
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: you a bit. Jokes. Don't repeat all the jokes that
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: come into your head, avoid especially jokes that may be old.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: Many a fellow's popularity may hinge on the fact that
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: he'll listen to a funny story without insisting on telling
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: another that isn't quite so funny. Showing off. Don't, if
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: you are from a large, well to do preparatory school,
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: talk too much about it, or think that the college
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: must be run on the same plan as your school.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: Your views may not be appreciated. Swaggering. Don't aspire to
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: be taken for an upper classman by cultivating a walk,
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: or a swagger or an air. You can work this
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: so hard that finally you are the only one to
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: see rowdyism. Don't be rowdyish or get the reputation of
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: being a drunken fellow. The real fun you get out
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: of college need not be a continual round of batting
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: about being snubbed. Don't think it is always entirely the
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: other man's fault if he fails to speak to you.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: If you have not the ability to make an impression
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: worth another's remembering, look to yourself college habits. Don't be
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: a fool. This is the sum and the substance of
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: all that herein precedes. A fellow shows himself a fool
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: or not a fool, by his habits. College habits are
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: funny things. The sooner you form your college habits, the
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: better or worse to put off. The sensible resolve till
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: the time of your last exam may be as useless
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: as the call of the doctor after the minister has left.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: About being the ass, don't imagine for a moment that
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: coming to college enables you to act in a superior
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: way to others who have not enjoyed the same. A
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: college career is a grand good thing, but its object
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: is to enable you, if possible, better to understand the world,
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: not to lift you at all above it. The world
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: hates a fool, but a college bred fool it thoroughly despises.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: Don't let your ears grow long, and don't bray about
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: being a gentleman. Don't imagine that the college catalog or
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: even this book can tell you all the things you
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: need to know concerning how to make a man of yourself.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: After all, it's really up to you look about and
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: be a gentleman, you say, but these few remarks hardly
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: begin to solve the problem and echo answers verbum sap
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: end of chapter seven, as to things in general. End
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: of the College Freshman's Don't Book by George Fullerton Evans