Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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jgJeD Atbepa Hloie Spring comes and finds them just emerging from a winter of keen experience, Spring departs and leaves them in a new status and with a better understanding of their environment; they now realize its features good and bad and begin to seek the good to eradicate or at least mitigate the evil of the bad. The} ' are making themselves actively valuable to their university and the university with its upperclass men appreciates them and hails with joy the completion of their evolution from faltering, timid, passive individuals to active, reasoning, valuable members of the university student array. 14

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1916Tl AtWr)A [H916 They work, they play, they go to class, they cut, they learn the behavior of a college student by observation of the upperclass man, they imitate him, they scrutinize him, and in his virtues as a college student they emulate his example. They grow in knowledge, they improve in manners, they improve in appearance, they become more intellectual and with the arrival of Spring don the garb of their fellows and begin to appear as they. They are at last beginning to live in the spirit of the university, in the spirit of the genuine college student, the marks of their Freshmanship are disappearing rapidly if not already entirely gone, they are qualifying for upperclassmen- ship. Behind them is an enviable classroom record. 13

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