Jump to content

Page:William Osler, the man.djvu/23

From Wikisource
This page needs to be proofread.

What fun to travel with a spirit like this, and he rarely went anywhere without hav- ing two or three youngsters on his trail. The summer his Oxford decision was finally made two of us crossed with him, indeed shared the same small stateroom, and, as I recall it, were not permitted to pay our share. We learned something of his methods of work, and had we not been on this intimate basis he would have appeared to us, as to the other voyagers, as the most carefree individual aboard. As a matter of fact he was always the first awake, and we would find him propped up with pillows reading or writing, and his bunk was so cluttered with books during the whole trip that there was scant room for its legitimate occupant. He breakfasted while we dressed, and then went on with his morning's work while the rest of us wandered about the deck with good intentions but usually with an unread book under our arms. At luncheon he would appear; the remainder of the day was a continuous frolic. We roped in the ship's doctor and got up a medical society of the physicians aboard. I find that I have preserved the program which he arranged.

MEDICO-NAUTICAL STUDIES

By Members of the North Atlantic Medical Society Edited by Dr. Francis Vf.rdon of

S. S. "Campaniu" Perpetual I'm ident

'I be volume containing about seven hundred peges will be issued from the Utopian Press, Thos. More A intis Price 117