Student Life: Advice to Freshmen, 1925

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No matter what an incoming freshman may miss, there is one thing he is always sure to get. That is advice - good, bad, and worse. He will be told to study hard, because that is the primary reason he is in college. He will be advised to play hard because that is the way to build a strong physique. He will be given countless other choice bits of advice. He will be “tipped-off” as to the various so-called cinch courses and a thousand other ways of loafing.

To all this advice, we would only add this: Make friends. Find your place in the University - you have a place. Find it. Become a part of George Washington; make yourself familiar with its life and ideals. Appreciate its advantages, recognize its shortcomings, and work with the common end of building the greater George Washington. Cultivate good friendships and become a part of the University.

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Author or Source: Hatchet, November 18, 1925
Document Location: University Archives
Date Added to Encyclopedia: January 29, 2007
Prepared by: Lyle Slovick, Assistant University Archivist

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