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 I suppose I shall be laughed at when I say that every freshman, excepting on rare occasions, ought to have his work done and be in bed by half past ten o'clock. The student who prepares one lesson during the day will never under normal conditions need to study more than three hours any evening and so can get to bed as he should do at a normal time.

One of the most useless as well as the most vicious student habits is the keeping of late hours. Living in a community of college students as I do, I have never arisen early enough nor gone to bed late enough to find the lights out in the students' rooms about me. At whatever hour of the night or morning one may walk down John street or Illinois street he may always see some student's light brightly burning.

I remember a young fellow who some years ago lived next door to me and into wrhose room I could look from my own study window. He was dull in the classroom, and if he passed at all did so with very low grades. At night his light was seldom out. He goaded himself to work far into the morning hours. I have wakened at three in the morning to find his study light still shining in at my window, and to see him nodding over his books. If he had worked hard one hour in the day time and put in two or three good hours