Word: chum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Colonel Hallowell who was Mr. Forbes' chum in college speaks of his broadmindedness and generosity of nature. He was always ready at college to help those who were struggling, and in later life he was never happier than when doing a generous act in behalf of some unfortunate who had appealed...
...acknowledge the receipt at this office of "Forbes of Harvard," a sketch by Elbert Hubbard. It is a vivid story of college life in the early fifties told by a series of letters that are supposed to have passed between Mr. Arthur R. Forbes and his mother, sweetheart and chum. Incidentally others take a hand in the correspondence. The story is replete with the play of fancy, wit and epigram, and enough philosophy to give it ballast...
...breaks unpleasantly through the playful treatment which to that point had carried the story, and implies a complication unnecessary to the climax. The picture of Mr. Ransom at the piano is capital, however, as is the exposure of Miss Ames. Although the combination of the sister and stranee chum in the brother's room while he and chaperone have gone out, is old, still Mr. Brown has given the Advocate a pleasantly new version...