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He got a list of rooms from him , and took lodgings in a dingy house which had the advantage of being within two minutes ' walk of the hospital . `` You 'll have to arrange about a part to dissect , '' the secretary told him . `` You 'd better start on a leg ; they generally do ; they seem to think it easier . '' Philip found that his first lecture was in anatomy , at eleven , and about half past ten he limped across the road , and a little nervously made his way to the Medical School . Just inside the door a number of notices were pinned up , lists of lectures , football fixtures , and the like ; and these he looked at idly , trying to seem at his ease . Young men and boys dribbled in and looked for letters in the rack , chatted with one another , and passed downstairs to the basement , in which was the student 's reading-room . Philip saw several fellows with a desultory , timid look dawdling around , and surmised that , like himself , they were there for the first time .