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The question seems to have been renewed, and was 

 disposed of in a letter a little later by the assurance 

 that 



" I have no intention of playing billiards at home, but in Ger- 

 many it is something quite different. The billiard-room keeper 

 is one of the most respectable persons in Tubingen and holds 

 the rank of university teacher. There is also a university teacher 

 of dancing and of fencing who stand on the same level as he." 



Having on 8th January announced to his mother his 

 intention of rushing home for a month as soon as the 

 Semester is over, on 6th March, 1872, he writes to his 

 father that he proposes to start from Tubingen on 

 Wednesday evening 13th, proceeding homeward by way 

 of London. As on his way out, he again stayed in the 

 house of his uncle at Kensington. As time went on in 

 his life at Tubingen, Eamsay seems to have felt the 

 increasing pressure of his work, for on 14th June, 1872, 

 he writes as follows to his father : 



"You appear to think I don't like chemistry so much as I 

 used to. It is quite a mistake. I only object, as I always do, 

 to too much work. I was up this morning, for example, at 

 5.30 and studied and took my breakfast from 6 to 7, a class 

 from 7 to 8, one from 8 to 9, from 9 to 3 laboratory (I lunch 

 now to have more time for work, and don't dine till 6), and from 

 3 to 5 I studied, then from 5 to 6 lecture, and then I dined. And 

 now at 8 I must start again. It is simply all work and no play, 

 except on Thursday afternoons, but Thursday evenings I work 

 as hard as ever." 



Obviously such working hours could not be sustained 

 continuously, but what was the rule for a student in a 



