他在一所大学做教授，90岁的时候，荏苒每天坚持工作8小时，不论春秋冬夏，也不论风霜雨雪。

他的秘书说：“他很衰弱，但是每天逼着自己从住的地方走过两个街口到办公室来，这段路要走一个小时，他却一定要走，因为这使他自觉有成就感。”

有一天，有个大学生从他办公室里出来，捧着一大堆书，一脸不高兴的抱怨：“总是这一套。我问一个和简单的问题，他可以用一个’是’或’否’回答，却给我十几本书，说可以在这些书里找到我所要的答案。”

他后来知道了这个学生的抱怨，微笑着说：“这就是我学到的读书方法，艰难费事的方法。那孩子如能好好的钻研这些书，就可以了解这个问题，将来也许能成为一个好律师。”

这个90岁的老人就是曾任美国哈佛大学法学院院长的庞德。

有一位哲学家说：“你应该每一两天做一些你不想做的事。”

这是人生进步的基础。

正如另一位哲人所说“容易走的都是下坡路。”

All Slopes are Easy to Go

He was a professor. At the age of 90, he still work eight hours everyday regardless the season and weather.

His secretary said: “He is extremely old, but he forced himself walk from his living place to office through two blocks. It would take him an hour, but he insisted to because it makes him get a sense of success. ”

The other day, an university student step out from his office with a pile of books. He complained emotionally: “He is always this man. He may answer me just with ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to my question. However, he always gave me dozens of books and suggests me to find the answer. ”

Later, he knew what this student complained. He told with smile: “This is the method I have learnt, a hard and troublesome way. If that kid could make full use of those books, he might know his question and maybe a good lawyer in the future.”

This 90-year-old man was 庞德, who was the president of law college in Haward University.

Once a philosophist said: “You should do some thing that you don not want to every one or two days.”

This is the foundation of life progress.

Just like another phlosophist said: “all slopes are easy to go. ”