He thinks the sun not only sets in the West but rises there." The girl learned that he intended entering the Harvard Medical School in the fall.
"I had to fight for that, too," he said, with a laugh.

"I've always wanted to be a doctor but Dad wouldn't give in for ever so long.

He is interested in mining properties there at home and it was his idea that I should come in with him when I finished school.

But I couldn't see it.
I wanted to study medicine.

Dad says there are almost as many starving doctors as there are down-at-the-heel lawyers; if I go in with him, he says, I shall have what is practically a sure thing and a soft snap for the rest of my days.