Responsibility

The sense of responsibility which comes with maturity must partly be attained by you alone, but much can be taught and developed by example.

Mixing freely with older and more mature students is a process which becomes easier with every year at Weir. By talking with them and heeding their advice the fresher can help himself to cultivate this sense of responsibility to himself and to the community.

These are the advantages of living at Weir or any other Varsity hostel. There are numerous temptations, mostly exaggerated, but they are the temptations of adulthood, and the student can learn to face them in an adult manner, A first year spent at a hostel is never a wasted one — it may at least be a chance for the student to discover his own weaknesses, and at the best a strong and dependable basis for study.