Club Activity.

The organisers of all the university clubs are only too glad to gain fresh, talented recruits, and if the freshers have the ability, the freshers will get the positions on the teams. The committees of these clubs, which are largely made up of more advanced students, are always eager for help in the organisation and administration, and any offers of help are received with open arms.

To stay with the constraints of a high-school clique is fatal. It is only too easy for the fresher, during the first few weeks to congregate with the familiar, friendly faces of school friends. I am not advocating complete severence with people who might have been firm friends for a number of years, and who understandably group together for self defence. All the other hundreds of strangers appear enviably at ease, and irritatingly condescending towards the greenness and inexperience of the first year student.

However, the sooner the fresher can bring himself to talk to strangers, to enter rooms and not retire abashed and timid into a corner, to join clubs, and almost literally to push himself into as many new activities as possible, the sooner he will find himself at ease, with dozens of new acquaintances and many new friends. Above all he will be able to make contact with those students of the university who can show him all the advantages of extra-curricular activity, and who can give him all the recognition he needs to enjoy all the good things on the calendar.

The fresher who has the commonsense and presents of mind in introduce himself to people, to find out about the important occurrences about the campus, to be outgoing, will enjoy Varsity life to the full.

The moment you enter the University as a bona fide student, learn all you can about the professors and the leading administrative Officers Of the university. When elections for the officers for the student executive come around, learn to recognize the candidates, attend the Annual and Special General Meetings. Learn about the hotheads the Anarchists, the brilliant scholars and talented sportsmen among the students. Learn all the names of the students you meet, and remember them.