Excerpt from Doctor Bryson: A Novel

The day, indeed, may be said to begin at eleven o'clock night, when, the janitor arriving, followed by a brigade of scrub-women, turns on the incandescent bulbs hot yet from the work of the evening, and the big room and its fellows are beaten, scrubbed, cleansed, and disinfected for the work of the new day.

In the morning at one o'clock the preparations are complete and the receiving-room naps. At three o'clock and at four the watchman looks through it, at six the porter throws Open the wide windows and the cool air of the lake, uncontaminated yet by the traffic of the street, rushes in. At seven students begin to arrive, at eight there are assistants in the laboratories, at nine professors are seen among the lockers, half an hour later the big doors opening upon the elevators are closed to exclude stragglers, at ten the clinics begin.

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