Word: chumming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Wanted. - A day chum, at 32 Hollis. Call between 1 and 2, or in the evening...
...occupant of a comfortably furnished room in Thayer is in want of a chum. One who would be here during the day only is preferred. Apply immediately to the janitor of Thayer...
...occupant of a comfortably furnished room in Thayer is in want of a chum. One who would be here during the day only is preferred. Apply immediately to the janitor of Thayer...
Notwithstanding her talkative independence, the Vassar girl always belongs to some boys' college in soul. Secretly she envies her brother or her chum's brother. It is wonderful how many "brothers" they have. Before the Thanksgiving foot ball game between Yale and Princeton they were divided up into factions as they were on national politics. They flaunted up and down the corridors with the barber's pole of Princeton's orange and black or the blue of Yale conspicuously displayed. The majority wore the blue, not so much for male reasons as because it was more becoming and easier...
...think they were terrible, but bless you I don't mind 'em now at all." We begin to have a dim apprehension that college life is not so quiet after all, and we ask Snodkins to tell us more about the subject. "Well," says he, "the drummer's chum played the fife before the procession, and that was excruciating, I admit; especially with a bones accompaniment. But that's over now, thank Heaven," and he sighs with relief. "Other noises," he continued, "are not so bad, nor so numerous. There's the Glee Club member, to whom it is quite...