ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an account of the major events or adjustments characteristic of each of the important stages of a college career in one institution, i.e., entrance, freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years, graduation. The initial social impact of the College on the students is a gratifying one. They are happy to find the student culture so friendly and agreeable, and they are pleased to learn that entrance into the prevalent student society makes few demands upon them for change of accepted thoughts or ways. Within a short time freshmen are caught up in the relatively self-sufficient student culture; family ties are attenuated, extra-College pressures are minimal, real faculty influence is yet to come. By the sophomore year the basic processes of adjustment to the college which were started in the freshman year have reduced many if not most of the marked differences among freshmen.
