DALLYING.

In several of the athletic squads the members are required to make out schedules covering all their waking hours. While many students regard such a schedule with instinctive distaste, they may still benefit from the moral which the system emphasizes. The college man is prone to fritter away time.

For example, not one man in ten ever does anything in a spare hour between two classes. He sits down at his desk and sharpens a pencil, breaks it and tries again. Then he picks up a newspaper--often last week's--and reads a headline here, an advertisement there, and deciphers the cartoons with wrapt attention and solemn mien. Next, he opens a magazine lying at hand and reads half a story. Wearying of that, he curses in a bored sort of way and turns back to the pencil which he has again broken while tracing designs on his blotter. Then he consults his watch and decides he can do nothing in the fifteen minutes that are left.

All time is not as badly spent as an hour in the morning, but the habit of dallying is, nevertheless, a prolific cause of probation. Whether it is play or work, do something all the time.