There were three fellows in the room besides myself.
For several nights they advised me to "cut out the higher education, douse that light and come to bed." Finally they spoke about it in the daytime.

"Majority rules," they said, "and there's three of us against you.

We can't sleep while you have that lamp burning.

The light keeps us awake and it also makes the room so hot that the devil couldn't stand it.

If you stay up reading to-night we'll give you the bum's rush." I was so interested in my books that I couldn't help lingering with them after the other fellows went to bed.