PRECEPT AND PRACTICE.

North Otago Times, 3 December 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

PRECEPT AND PRACTICE.

At a certain prominent medical school in connection with one of our great hospitals there is a staff lecturer whose' fad is enforcing the necessity'of a doctor possessing the ability to snatch sleep at odd minutes.

The professor, -who, forhisab-i sorting hobby in this particular dl-| rection has been nicknamed by the students, fond of him as they are in j other respects, "Old Forty Winks," I was the other day enlarging on his pet topic towards the .close of a ninety minutes' long .lecture, something after this fashion :- "And let me again impress upon you, young gentlemm, the extreme desirability of training yourselves to that invaluable habit of sleeping here, there, and everywhere, whenever' an unexpected quarter of an hour offers itself to recuperate what may be your otherwise exhausted energies, It may come anywhere, any time,; but seize-the opportunity whenever you feel you are bored, perhaps, with what is going on around .you—when you feel your time

is being unprofitably employed." And then, from the'back bench of the school lecture theatre came two loud, unmistakable snores!