WHY.....!!
Of the boys who don't reach their natural academic boundary during the course of their college career, but who fail to get through, there are two main classes: those who try and those who do not try. Many boys attend seriously to make good.
There is a boy who sit down to study, opens his book, but before starting on his work says to himself, "I think that I had better sharpen my pencil, it needs it badly." And when he has sharpen it,he observes that all his pencils need sharpening.And so on, until his time has gone and nothing has been done.
A common cause of failure is a mistaken ambition for the boy on the part of his parents. More often than I should wish, I find a boy who is not shoeing any interest in in his work, and who is not trying to do it with any distinction, with any direction, mapped out by his parents, that runs counter to all of his interests and abilities.
Another type of boy who does not try is the very bright boy who has always done his school work without effort, and who has never learned what real application is. He supposed that he can float through college as little effort as he did through school. I sometimes think that the bright boy who has always depending on his ability to get things quickly is the most pitiable object among all our failing students.
The cure of this sort of thing is again not easy, for it involves an entire change of ethics, and the forming of a completely new set of habits. No one can do this but the boy himself.
Nowadays when most ambitious boys want to go to college, the financial pressure is very serious one. A few parent take the position that the boy should earn his way through college for good his soul. As a matter of fact, no boy ought to be compelled to earn his entire way through college if it can in any way be avoided.
Nevertheless, many boys are cost entirely on their own resources for their college expenses. And it is always to the determinant of their health, or the value of their education, or both. Any boy can earn a part of his expenses without hurting himself and in my experience a boy is willing to save the burden of their parents. But to see boys by the dozen takes jobs lasting from six o'clock in the evening till two in the morning, six days in a week; to see boys under going transfusion of blood to get money of their food and books, heartrending spectacles.
There are always a good number of undergraduates whose heads are turned and whose judgement is perverted bey the attractiveness of athletic sports and literary activity. All of these features of college life have their place and should receive the support of those students who are interested in them. In my experience, the awakening of a clear judgement as to what the college is for, is not a difficult as often supposed.
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