SUNY Upstate Medical University - Auricle Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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I , Bed-Side Library for Medical Students A liberal education may be had at a very slight cost of time and money. Well-filled though the day be with appointed tasks, to make the best possible use of your one or of your ten talents, rest not satis- fied with this professional training, but try to get the education, if not of a scholar, at leaist of a gentleman. Before going to sleep read for half an hour, and. in the morning have a book open on your dress- ing table. You will be surprised to find how much can be accomplished in the course of a year. I have put down a list of ten books which you may make close friends. There are many others; studied care- fully in your student days these will help in the inner education of which I speak. - I. Old and New Testament II. Shakespeare III. Montaigne IV. Plutarch ' s Lives V. Marcus Aurelius VI. Epictetus VII. Religio Medici VIII. Don Quixote IX. Emerson X. Oliver Wendell Holmes — Sir William Osier 1 r 100