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Dean Advises Parents of UNC-CH Freshmen, January 10, 1925

High Lights in Dean Bradshaw’s Letter to Parents of the 800 University Freshmen

Advises against students having automobiles except in exceptional cases.

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Advises against students leaving Hill during week-ends. Should spend the time making friends.

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Letters from home serve to ward off homesickness.

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Freshman’s expenses should be about $500 exclusive of clothing, transportation and spending money.

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Sets $20 a month as a fairly reasonable allowance for spending money.

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While boy is at college is a good time for him to learn to live within a fixed income and to handle his money.

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A checking account is good training. Especial care should be taken that he does not overdraw it.

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The University concerns itself about the son’s health.

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The fraternity is not a social aristocracy.

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Twelve to fifteen per cent of the freshmen are invited to join fraternities.

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There are five churches and the Y.M.C.A. in Chapel Hill. The extent of the student’s religious life depends on himself.

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The University believes in neither coddling nor neglecting freshmen.

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It would be a worst possible mistake if a student should become so occupied with student activities as to neglect the systematic and essential work of his college courses.

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Especially during his first quarter is the freshman likely to fail in his work.

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The last two years of college are worth at least four times as much as the first two, both financially and intellectually.

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It is not too early for the son to begin to think about his life work.

From page 2 of The Tar Heel, Chapel Hill, N.C., Saturday, January 10, 1925

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073227/1925-01-10/ed-1/seq-2/#words=JANUARY+10%2C+1925

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