Word: chumming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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MILTON."SKIP the poetry." Chum's eyes were weak, after the midyear grind, and I was reading the Crimson to him as he sat, with his back to the fire, gazing partly into vacancy, and partly at a photograph of one of Raphael's Madonnas, which adorned our modest study. We had read all about the grievances of the Memorial Hall victims which are almost as enlivening as the old plank-walk appeals; all the discussions intended to prove that a man who wears a clean shirt insults a man who does not, or (and to the latter opinion...
...these I had waded through, my chum giving, from time to time, a grunt of satisfaction or more frequently of mingled pity and disgust, when my eye fell upon a poem. "Shall I read you this?" I said. "O, skip the poetry!" was his answer. "But you might at least hear the title," said I. "Well, what is it," growled he. I said humbly, "Lines to a Fading Rose"; it begins...
...seems to us that there is little need of such aid. What is needed is rooms for those who have lost their quarters. The best manner of supplying this need seems to be for the men who now room alone, and would be willing to take a chum, to leave their names with the Bursar, to whom the late occupants of Hollis should apply for other rooms...
...Well, Bob," replied his chum after a pause, "it seems to me you are an example of a class of fellows here to whom, on account of their inactivity and lack of interest in everything after they have got into the societies and clubs, is largely due the defeats which Harvard has been receiving for the last three or four years...
...this new light, and that the interest of his walks might centre not only on what has been beautified by nature, but also on what has been dignified by history. I need not state how I immediately purchased the guide-book recommended by the editorial pen, or how my chum ridiculed my enthusiasm. He consented, however, to humor me in my harmless delusion; and on the appointed afternoon, accompanied me, guide-book in hand in search of historic notoriety. I do not intend to describe the interesting places that I visited; that feat has been eloquently achieved by the before...