The Student in the Hallway

To be accepted to Rav Shmelke's yeshivah, every new student had to accept the following rules and conditions. He must learn with all his soul and all his strength, and never go to bed or to sleep, but study until he collapsed from fatigue.

Rav Shmelke once passed a student who lay in the hallway, apparently collapsed from tiredness, his head on his folded jacket instead of a pillow. When the student awoke, Rav Shmelke berated and chastised him. If he still had the strength to fold his jacket and lie down on it, he still had strength left to learn, and that was unacceptable.