Education: Oldsters

Ruminating on the boredom of old age, an old man in Elgin, Ill. recently came to the conclusion that many an octogenarian would be better off if he had something to occupy his mind. "Medicine can do little," he declared. "The mind becomes ill while the body remains healthy." Charles Edward Sharp should know what he is talking about. Now 76, he has been one of Elgin's leading physicians for nearly half a century, still has a large & lucrative practice, in addition runs a philanthropic six-cottage sanatorium whose patients are required to...

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