Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


But Dick did put in work that nobody saw. His collateral reading was
wide and deep, and when he went on his first summer cruise in the
ocean-going gasoline yacht he had built no gay young crowd accompanied
him. Instead, his guests, with their families, were professors of
literature, history, jurisprudence, and philosophy. It was long
remembered in the university as the "high-brow" cruise. The
professors, on their return, reported a most enjoyable time. Dick
returned with a greater comprehension of the general fields of the
particular professors than he could have gained in years at their
class-lectures. And time thus gained, enabled him to continue to cut
lectures and to devote more time to laboratory work.

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