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A word of advice to the willing to learn is always a pleasant task. And it becomes additionally so when the advice is of a pleasant nature. We wish to call the attention of the freshmen to the society relations of the university. The prurience which some men exhibit in seeking social honors is simply ludicious, while others are just as backward and slow to make acquaintances. Some of us seem to hold up before us as the highest prize of college life admission to some one society. And we are too often led to look upon society relations purely from the club side. There are other social relations beyond those of the societies which are well worth the student's time. Close societies will always foster cliques, and cliques cannot but deteriorate the general good-fellowship of a class. Every new member of the college while exercising the greatest care as to the class of students with which he purposes to associate, ought to remember that his society life is simply accessory to his regular college life, and that it should be made such. Societies are admirable as one phase of college life, but they should be restricted to that phase.