l THE 1916 RIVERVIEW ORBIT Cfhitnriall This is a plca for knowledge by the contact method as against book-larnin' . When you graduate from college or preparatory school you have a certain amount of wisdom at your command. According to one headmaster, 30'Z, of this amount should come from books, the other 70025 from rubbing up against the real dirt -from actual experiences. So, all those books you will have represents about one-third of what you should know. Verily, some of you will have to work hard to make up that other two-thirds. There are two ways of getting this necessary two-thirds: Personal contact with the professors, and personal contact with the fellows. If you imagine professors are professors in class and out of class-as most of you do-for heaven's sake believe what is written here! You will never find more amiable companions or truer friends than the masters, if you will only go to them as friends and not as enemies. Remember, they have been for some time what you are still aim- ing to be-men of the world. They can tell you things that you cannot learn in any other way except by experience-and they can tell you, too, that experience is a hard school . Every hour you spend with a master outside the class-room does you twice as much good as an hour inside. You need not be afraid of neglecting your work, either. If you have a master who is your friend, he will see that you do enough work to pass his class. at least. Not to heed advice is such a strongly formed habit, however, that all you are told is not set down on the wisdom side of the leger. You must, in the last analysis, learn more or less in the none- too-gentle world. In prep. school and in col- lege this means mixing with the fellows and in the school activities. You may learn to fight battles, and to fight them well, on gridiron, diamond or basketball court. You may fight, and just as strenuously, other battles on the monthly or year-book board, in earning a scholarship, or even in blufling your way. But everywhere, no matter how you turn, if you are to gain the two-thirds part of your edu- cation, you must do it by personal contact with men and fellows. There is no other way. Why not? The proper study of mankind is man . Pope was right, right-even the third of your education you get from books comes indi- rectly from men's lips! Get your nose out of a book and consort with men if you really want to learn-mix. Mix with the ' 'real dirt .
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