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tion actually and visihly at stttkc. As loyal members of this organization, you will give your utmost to see that no harm befall your ideal through fault of yours.
Then, doesn't your best include efficient study? After the girls and the game, the good times and the glorious com- panionships arc but pleasant memories; judgmE'nt on your school will be based on something far different. In the largest measure it will be you yourselves, as true and \Vorthy men; and in the determining of your manhood these very same lessons, which are no\v so annoying, will play a large part. It is an unpleasant situation to consider, but the fact remains that by your indifference in matters of studying you are endangering the success of V. E. S. American colleges
will view the worth of your school largrly by your studious capacities as manifested in tlteir halls; tmjust the criterion may be, but it is, after all, about the only tangible one to he hnd. And whether rightly or no, the college is very largely the judge.
Think it over. Doesn't your school loyalty demand as your part your ])est in e,·crything; not 9!) per cent in good lidng alone, but something appronrhin~ that in studyin~. too? In your C'Rtalogue you will read that "tho school will contend for a well-d~served l'cputntion for scholarship and efficient training." You nlone can make that reputation; we, the teachers, can but guide nnd direct.
Forget for the time being the usefulness of it all. Time will demonstrate-quickly, too, I believ