Excerpt from Youth and the Open Door: The Relation of Habit and Character to Success Tife followmg pages were originally penned in the form of lectures to be delivered to the freshmen of Ohio Wesleyan University, as a part of a course known as Freshman Funda mentals. The/purpose of this course was to serve as a general introduction to the various subjects of study and to discuss the ways and means whereby the budding student could hope to obtain as much benefit as possible from the four years of college on which he, or she, was just entering. Certain considerations made it seem possible that the lectures could be' re-writ ten so as to be of service to a wider group than that comprised in the college class. The lec tures have, therefore, been thoroughly revised and much new material has been added. While doing so, the author has kept in mind the needs and interests of the different group of auditors, or rather readers, to which it is now offered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.