Excerpt from From School to College, IIHitherto parents and guardians have kept an eye on you to see that you walked uprightly and behaved yourselves becomingly. N ow the apron strings are to be broken, or very tightly stretched. You go to the university to measure yourselves with men and women from all parts of the coun try, and to meet temptations from which you have hitherto been shielded.Advice is apt to vary, too, according to the person who gives it. If you have had any time for reading in the midst of your Latin and Greek and French and German and English and mathe maties and history and physiology and botany and zoology and music and a few other studies, you have probably read the Letters of a Self-made Merchant to His Son. You will remember that in the first letter the father writes to his son who has just gone away to college, he says Dear Pierrepont: Your Ma got safe back this morn ing and she wants me to be sure to tell you notto overstudy, and I want to tell you to be sure not to understudy. It is to be hoped that Pierrepont took the advice of both his parents. Some students are disposed to study too much, to the great detriment of health of body and mind, while others are disposed to study too little, also to the detriment of body and mind and morals.It is the universal testimony of the professors in all co-educational institutions that the women are more conscientious in their work than the men, and that they are therefore much more lia ble to overwork. The first piece of advice I have to offer you, therefore, is that you do not over work. Nothing is to be gained by that sort of thing. I suppose you will, like so many young people, feel that you must get through with your studies, and get out in the busy world. But if you get through with nerves shattered, and health gone beyond remedy, you'will have paid more than it is worth for your education.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.