Not Study or Work Which Kills
Not Study or Work Which Kills.—President Schurman, of Cornell University, recently said that eleven hours of daily study are about right for the student. Some there are who disagree with this; but the great medical authority, Dr. Geo. F. Shrady, declares that there is "no such thing as overstudy." Worry, hysteria, physical ailment, improper conditions, intemperance, tobacco-using, indulgence of the lower man, are probably almost wholly responsible for results charged to overstudy. All argue that set study hours should be short for children; but the little child with eager mind puts in usually more than eleven hours of work. The real secret of enduring hard work is enjoying hard work. Laziness kills more than work. That well-known scholar, the late Max Muller, tells us that when he was a student, says the New York World, "he went without sleep one night, took three hours the next, slept as long as he could the third, and on the fourth night began over again with a vigil. He long retained his mental freshness because he enjoyed the work. The extreme age to which statesmen, artists, and authors of the highest rank have often attained would seem to show that very hard and long-continued work which one enjoys is not injurious, but the reverse. Men, like steel tools, rust out quicker than they wear out."