WORK AND OTHER DISSIPATIONS
So you didn't expect a call from me this evening? Awfully glad? Well, you needn't be so flurried about it. Why, Dick, your hand is as cold as ice; what's the matter with you! Look rather rocky and pale. It's really very bad to work all the time and not have any fun in life. Judging from your reports, I did not suppose you had been troubled in just that way, but—you certainly do look worn out. Your athletic business and close application to your books are a little too much, I suppose.
As you know, I don't believe in giving younger brothers advice, but you won't mind if I offer a little fraternal warning against running a good thing like work into the ground. You will wreck your health and spoil your capacity for work if you keep on at the present apparent rate. What success is worth the price of your bodily well-being? After all, college life is only a
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