Word: friend
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...BOSTON, June 18, 1879."MY DEAR FRIEND, - I am invited to Mr. Holworthy's spread on Class Day, and hope to see you there. You know we have not met since that delightful summer which we spent together at Mt. Desert. You were a Freshman then. How long ago it seems, and how nice it will be to find you almost a Senior! Perhaps you are changed, too. Indeed, I am not sure that I should know you, for, what do you think? I had the misfortune to bow to a gentleman in the street, thinking...
...Your old friend...
...well enough for some purposes. You see, the girl was struck with me, and wanted to flirt. Said she mistook me for a friend, - way they always do, you know, - but gad! she was cut up badly when she found I knew you, and so she stuck to it that she could n't tell us apart...
...been entirely satisfactory, for when a poor student draws an expensive room, and a wealthy student a cheap one, the advantage of an exchange is obvious. The new plan is adopted to meet just such needs. Under its provisions a student cannot transfer a room to a friend, nor can he take rooms which he does not want for the sake of an investment. Moreover, the new plan has one great advantage over the old one. Students will be obliged to make a written statement in a book open for public inspection, that they derive no profit from the exchange...
...college custom I said that a great responsibility rested upon popular men, inasmuch as many of their admirers would imitate their actions; and, to use a strong illustration, I said that if Swellington got drunk, Gosling, even though he did not like the taste of liquor, would follow his friend's example. This is the statement that "D" challenges. I do not say that Gosling does drink to excess, but I say that he will if Swellington does, and I draw the conclusion from Gosling's conduct in other matters. When "D" says that no man ever "drank to excess...