Excerpt from The Freshman and His College: A College Manual As a matter of fact, every college president and every college professor knows that the average F reshman is not such a youth as has just been described. We know that the great majority of F reshmen are bright, candid, earnest, and lovable boys who are coming up to college with a high and pure ambition to make the most of themselves and to make life count. But the American college is under fire. Many influential people think that our colleges are not justifying themselves; that F reshmen are, for the most part, noisy, lazy, conceited, dissipated young upstarts; that the average college graduate who goes into business is unable to hold his own with the boy who has gone directly from the high school into the ofiice or the factory. These critics question whethe'r what stands for a college education does not do a young fellow more harm than good. Men of standing and ability and wide knowledge of the world variously allude to the college as a club for idling classes, a training school for shamming and shirking, the most gigantic illusion of the age, a sort of educational vermi form appendix. These men are disposed to think that a college diploma rarely assures intellectual discipline. One great journal afiirms that students nowadays get from their college life little but educational disadvantages. And, worst of all, scores of our chief educators and educa tional experts are sounding solemn notes of warning to college authorities as well as to undergraduates. We are told that our graduates are not as ripe and fit for advanced professional study at twenty-three as fine. Gem's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.