University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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££g6fem of Bot?crnmcnf In matters of government there is a strong tendency toward the liberal policy of the modern university. The tendency is to regard those who come here as young men, and not to treat them in the hide-bound ways of ante-bellum days. This, then, develops the honor system that has worked so admirably in other institutions. It has been found much better, as a general thing, to appeal to a man’s sense of honor than to try to drive him. A well-known case that is almost an exact parallel is the difference between free and slave labor. Free labor may be depended upon; slaves must be driven. A regular attendance at lec¬ tures, chapel and drill is required. Beyond this a man’s time is at his own disposal: he is to be governed, of course, by his aptitude and the time it takes him for the preparation of his work. tubcnt £tfe As is usually the case, the student life of a university is the most interesting feature of it. Indeed, that embraces everything. It is reasonable to suppose that in a body of as many as six hundred stu¬ dents there are some of all kinds. We have them here. First, let us consider the studious man, who feels it to be his imperative duty to study constantly; who thinks he should never take time to remark to a friend that Mr. A. had changed the place of parting his hair, or that a “frat” is “spiking” a new man; he is always seen with his head in a book; he looks thin and wan, as though he were suffering from an east wind or indigestion. Finally the goal is reached, and he is a mental “This SOCIAL ANIMAL” dyspeptic. A second class is composed of men whose disposition is to be envied. A man of this class never has the blues. He always meets you with a smile; always ready to throw down his book and laugh at the eccentricities of some crank, yet he always knows his lessons moderately well. If he happens to fail on an examina¬ tion, he does not become moody, but rtsolves “ to do better.” He takes life as it comes. There is another class that have no pecu¬ liarity save that they have no aim in life—those who are here merely because circumstances keep them here. It might be well to add parenthetically that the institution is not troubled with an individual member of this class long at a time. They hold steadfastly to the opinion that “ambition is a dangerous thing,” and constantly avoid danger. What is to be done in after life none of them can tell, but all sincerely hope for something to “turn up.” It is with much pleasure that we notice the waning influence of the dude. If that class of social animal is going out of fashion as rapidly in other places as he is in the University of Arkansas, within the next half-century it will have become extinct, and the curio fiend will revel with 6

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“THE STUDIOUS MAN”