Word: chummed
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...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...
Owing to the fraternities, there is no class feeling whatever, and freshmen and seniors chum together as contentedly as possible. Whatever feeling exists is between the societies and is never unpleasant...
Spring has come. This is known to be true, because the inevitable small brother of your chum's sister's pretty friend has already begun to spring that inane and venerable question of "Why is it dangerous to walk out of doors now?" which he immediately explains as "Because the cow-slips about, and the little buds are shooting every-where." It is spring, but, in spite of the warm weather, it is also the fit time for overcoats, as the tailor says. April is a deceptive maid, and lures many an unsuspecting youth to an early grave...
...Wanted - Chum to go in one of the favorite rooms in Hollis. Leave address at CRIMSON Office...