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The High School Boy and His Problems

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The High School Boy and His Problems (1920)
by Thomas Arkle Clark
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The High School Boy and His Problems

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The High School Boy

and His Problems

By
Thomas Arkle Clark
Dean of Men, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

New York
The Macmillan Company
1920All rights reserved

Copyright, 1920
By
The Macmillan Company


Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1920.

Preface

I can not remember a time since I have been grown when I did not know, intimately, boys of high school age and in high school, and when I did not like to sit down and talk to them. One group of boys, only a few years ago, I had almost daily contact with from the time they entered high school until they graduated from college. As a college executive, I meet, personally, every autumn, hundreds of boys fresh from the training of the high school, and revealing almost at once what they have gained and what they have missed. It is this intimate contact with so many thousands of high school boys that has induced me to write the papers contained in this little book.

Morals and Manners was read before a meeting of the North Central Academic Association; Going to College was given as a Commencement address to the boys of the University School, Cleveland, Ohio; the other papers have not previously been printed.

Thomas Arkle Clark

Urbana, Illinois,

August, 1919.

Contents

The High School Boy 1
The Course 21
Studies and Other Things 40
Examinations and Grades 56
The Leisure Hour 76
Books and Reading 96
Social Activities 114
Manners and Morals 132
Choosing a Profession 152
Going to College 168

The High School Boy and His Problems



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