4 in the morning
Besides , did n't you go there to study and not to play ? You are writing home too much about girls and society and dances and theatres , and nothing about work . Remember , I am footing the bills . When I was your age I got up at 4 in the morning and toiled away in the fields till sundown , and then I was too tired to spruce up and play at being a gentleman . If you 're going to be a doctor , you 'd better take a different course . Yours , FATHER . To MR. CLARENCE ROWAN , Raleigh , N. C. Baltimore , Dec. 10 , 1906 .