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Show -72- almost every party? But the worst effect of all was the Professor's inability to get to sleep at nights. He had had periods of insomnia in the past, which he had always remedied by getting out of bed, pouring himself a small glass of brandy, and sipping it as he eead a book or otherwise occupied himself. Now the reading alone did not suffice. The doctor had given him a small bottle of pills, which he took the first few nights, but when he took them he found that they produced a morning dullness that interfered with his writing. 1 So far as his illness was concerned, his blood-sugar level had tested out as normal at his next meeting with the doctor. He had lost fifteen pounds. Se was constantly hungry on his spare diet, but he had never been a heavy eater, so was in no real pain; and the doctor had increased the number of calories after the first weight loss. He still tired easily, but this he attributed to his paBunonia. When he met his classes at the University, nothing about himself seemed different, but it did seem to him that the changes in the school were accelerating. More Blacks and Chi-canq^ s were to be seen on the campus walks and in the hallways (although few of them were enrolled in his classes), the dress styles of the students had become at once more varied and more casual, there were more meetings and more emotional speeches made from the speaker's platform on the quadrangle, and even the grounds themselves looked overused and less cared for. |