Henry Baird Favill, AB, MD, LL.D., 1860-1916, a ... - University Library

556 HENRY BAIRD FAVILL
personal happiness and general usefulness. I have, hence,
a deep, underlying feeling that anything which could contribute
to the rounding out of personal character, even by
so slight a suggestion as this, I am anxious to contribute.
I suspect also that I have a slight feeling of anxiety because
of special temptations which I know you are destined to
encounter.
Your work carries you away from the simplicity of hospital
life and routine into all manner of external worldly
conditions. By no means always, but frequently enough,
your path lies
in association with the extreme luxuries of
life. Familiarity and custom breed habit, and habits are
insidious and tenacious. The only safeguard against
dropping into the things which do not become you and
which you can neither afford nor profit by, is eternal vigilance.
I urge you to maintain for yourself a rigid discipline
and circumspection as to personal habits, discriminating
intelligently between needs and wants, to the end that
you become not only personally self-possessed, but, toward
the public, quiet and impressive examples of wise living.
And now in parting from you, the pleasure of bidding
you Godspeed is qualified b^^ the pain of having you leave
our family walk.
The comfort in this lies in the fact that, although you do
go hence, most of you, we hope, will periodically renew
your associations with us in various circumstances, and
that we shall move on in paths of common usefulness
and mutual support.