A Manchester Boy Gets Education

A MANCHESTER BOY GETS EDUCATION

BY SLEEPING ONLY FOUR HOURS AND A HALF

Remarkable Physical Endurance Shown by Manchester Boy Studying Medicine in Toledo

Clarence A. Burger, a distributing clerk in the Toledo postoffice, has been granted a leave of three months by the department at Washington. The concession was made on the recommendation of Postmaster Tucker.  Berger wants the leave that he may take the time to prepare for taking his degree from the Toledo Medical College this coming spring, and thereby hangs a tale of indomitable pluck and endurance.

Berger is a young man who came here from Manchester, Mich., four years ago to work his way through the Toledo Medical College. During the first two years of his course he supported himself by clerking in an East Toledo drug store, working afternoons and evenings and keeping up his studies as best he could by conserving his few spare moments. Then he went into the Toledo postoffice, joining the night force of distributors. There he has worked every night for the past two years at the same time ke eping up in his regular classes and clinics at the college. It has been a test of physical endurance that none but one of a remarkable constitution could have borne successfully.

Mr. Berger reported for work each evening at 6 o'oclock and worked till 9:30. Then he was relieved to report again at 2 a.m. for another shift lasting till 7 a.m. During much of the time while school was in session the brief four hours and a half, from 9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. was all the time he had for rest and sleep. The whole of the day, ordinarily, was occupied with study, recitation, and clinical work.

That he may devote time to his work during his last term in school he has applied for temporary leave. That leave was granted, and now, for the first time since entering school, he is working under the normtl conditions that surround the average student.

When Clarence A. Berger takes his degree as doctor of medicine next spring he may well boast of having attained his goal by surmounting difficulties such as few have ever coped with successfully. -Toledo News.