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students work night and day
strong and influential organizations exist to
correlate and supervise the activities
and
student life is more or less mapped out. There
is little spontaniety
freshman are regarded as
working units by the impassive Seniors, who
direct and issue orders in cold fashion, and
never come in contac...
work, do something, get results, is the con¬
stant cry. Student life at the University of
Chicago is typical of this spirit. The...
no
time to assimilate his studies. The increasing
demand for work on studies finds little com¬
pensating yield in the demands of ...
so study must be systematized. The
student packs his mind with the necessary facts,
unpacks and spreads out his mental store in
examin...
and
he himself never has had time to look at wThat
he has learned. He never has had time to turn
over literature and history...
and when vacation comes, every one
breathes a sigh of relief
the eternal grind has
let up a little. And when one is through, one
cannot look back on many of the bright and
cheerful joys...
he has lost the
capacity for quiet, placid living. He is spoiled
for anything but work
he is enslaved in the
habit of doing something all the time, morning,
noon and night. Leisure is more abhorrent to
him than prohi...