ROUTINE AND EFFICIENCY.

The greatest thing that a man has to learn before he can attain any great success in college is to concentrate his energies entirely on the subject in hand--whether it be preparation for a recitation the next morning, or the assimilation of the signal code of the football team.

A great aid in acquiring this ability to concentrate is singleness of purpose. Here is where routine comes in. Its great service comes in making a man do one thing at a given time--or we should say, it offers a man one thing to do at a given time. Not that a man can run his affairs on an exact schedule; that is humanly impossible. But--to borrow an illustation from Dean Briggs--if a man has a class at 10 o'clock and another at twelve, it is of great importance to know before-hand just what he is going to do at 11 o'clock. Otherwise his time during that hour is likely to be wasted in simply waiting around for his next class.

This subject is so old that it is ever new; and particularly to the Freshman who is new to the demands of college life upon a man's energies, one may recommend a more or less thorough planning of time. The experience of the greatest successes in college goes to prove that routine brings better work, shorter working hours and much more satisfaction than the hit-or-miss method, and the consequent worry over work half-done or not done at all.