Word: chummed
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...longing to be with my fellow-men. One room after another I tried, where congenial souls are wont to congregate, but dark windows or unanswered knocks told the same story for all; and, at length, I found myself in the Yard, as companionless as ever. "Why, O my chum," I groaned as I gazed at the gloomy window-panes of my room, "didst thou avail thyself of thy senioric privileges and betake thyself off for a week's respite from college duties?" and I leaned moodily against a tree. Of a sudden a cold puff of wind drew across...
...pair of chums, I meditated, is not unlike a married couple. The relation combines most of the advantages with none of the disadvantages, and, like a wife in the journey of life, a chum in the little jaunt of college is a good thing to have. I think I should always advise a Freshman friend to take to himself a chum; and yet such counsel, without first consulting that pattern of elder brothers whose advice is fast forming his fraternal relative Jack into the paragon of all Freshmen, I almost hesitate to give. Indeed, I am rather inclined to think...
...friends tested by the thousand petty annoyances that inevitably occur, and to find them still standing firm under the fire of my temper when I am in an ill-humor. Besides, the argument about seeking your friends when you want them works both ways. If your chum cannot be induced to let you be oblivious of his presence, - and one who will not should, I admit, be avoided, - it is still possible to avoid his company. Even here, half-deafened, if I choose to listen, by the noise that fills the room, - for the Sophomores at the next table...
...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 year, to shake hands with number one, and then, either to take up with number two, or to resume the freedom of bachelor-ship. For, in chumming, it is possible to follow out Lord Dundreary's idea, "If you find you don't like me, you know, you can go back...
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 caught myself nodding to my glass, - it makes no difference if I don't go home...