Monticello College - Echo Yearbook (Godfrey, IL)

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, -FOl) HOLES A DAY AT COLLEGE 8l These indeterminate people arc always unhappy an .They do not retain a drive in any one direction h to follow it and to get anywhere at all. o. then do settle into a consistent self, but such a isagrcca d unpleasant one that they, too, arc failures. no use “Let’s not have her along. She’s such a grouch. 15 hiking her; she always says no.” or But then there is the great mass of people who are mo Lss successful according to the way in which they dev I fcttcnt, reliable personalities of pleasing qualities. T hese arc superlative endowments. They arc usual and quite getu things, which result from discipline and training. College students arc already more advanced than hig ■ graduates. Their training must therefore be more ar uous a more continuous. They must tvent their training. This training while in college is essentially two o . intellect and of the social qualities. The socia many students, far more pleasant. It is found in a it of its own, in the formation of small groups and cliques, in affairs, in dances and proms and picnics and ath v lege politics arc important. All these things conm creation of a girl's ultimate self. Either she accepts ter respo abilities or she dodges them; she works on her committee or site skips the meeting for a movie. One, by-and-by, becomes chairman, becomes pendent; other, by-and-by, is not elected to anything at a . t ' tls have to hold down jobs later on, have to get °n wt an -c start .The one does it naturally, the other Ends it difficult, 'is college social life makes emotional patterns in a gu us. She learns when to get excited and when to remain he learns how to get along with people s ic i cs an

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SECRETS OF WISDOM

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