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He comes flying into my room about twenty-five times a day on the average to ask me where my chum is, or to ask my chum where I am, or to ask us both where some one else is. When he has found out he goes contentedly back to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE CHARACTER. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

Now I don't think. I don't want to. I am not an instructor paid to do the thinking for every idiot who can't do it for himself. So I answer, "I don't know," and he straightway wants to know why I don't know. Now what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE CHARACTER. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

Again, you may say with bitterness that my advice to you comes too late, - that you have already done several things of which you are ashamed. All right. Don't do any more; and if you can control yourself in the future you will have obtained experience that will be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 11/17/1876 | See Source »

Of the many advantages of the relation of chum and chum over that of man and wife, not the least is, that if chums do not agree they can separate. No need of a journey to Indiana, and no troublesome incumbrances either. All needful is, at the end of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OVER A SCHOONER. | 11/17/1876 | See Source »

Suppose, again, I continued, while a sense of perfect comfort pervaded my whole being, that I were at this moment a husband instead of a chum. I should then be under the necessity of turning immediately homeward, or a little family disturbance might arise. But as it is, - and I...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OVER A SCHOONER. | 11/17/1876 | See Source »