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 preparation for real living and real work; but, don't you see, if you work so hard in college as to undermine your constitution, what kind of work will you be good for afterward? Think of the future! You will be graduated from college to a rest cure and from rest cures to a sanitarium, and from there to a home for incurables! Think of that, Dick! (no wonder you fidget in your chair) all because you hadn't sense enough to let good enough alone; thought it a fine thing, a manly thing, to overindulge yourself—in work! I didn't think it of a brother of mine!

Why, it has affected your eyes, hasn't it? or is the light too strong? You keep turning them away. Sit over there where you won't be bothered. Stretch out on the divan and take a rest from your studies—you need it. There, isn't that better, in the dark?

Now, some years ago there was a fellow here, a brilliant student like you, who used to study all the time—don't be so nervous and self-conscious; it's a worthy ambition—and this man was one of the keenest