Word: chums
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...affable, good-natured fellow, and I believe he had a tolerably intimate acquaintance with every man in his class. I, on the contrary, am modest and bashful, and used often to be disconcerted by the rude jests of some of our callers; but my admiration for my popular chum was so great that I would have submitted to anything for his sake. But why that chum should have chosen to give a punch in No. 43 on the very night before our hardest Annual I never could tell. I suppose it was because of the peculiar inappropriateness of the time...
...fellows, to room together happily, must either be very similar in tastes and pursuits, or else totally different: in the first case, they will agree and be together in almost everything; in the second, each will follow his own course, unhindered by the likes or dislikes of his chum...
...find a fellow with whom we can agree in all important points even, is difficult; to live in the other way, gives little satisfaction to either chum...
...down to enjoy a good novel, or, possibly, to indulge in the cheerful grind. Your chum, a would-be member of the ball nine, is practising drop-catch against the opposite wall; you wish, though perhaps you don't say so, that he was - anywhere, out of the room. You have collected a jolly set for euchre or vingt-et-un, and, coming into your room, find your chum hard at work upon his next theme. Though the conflict of purposes be amicably settled in both cases, you must feel how much more pleasant it would be to be sure...
...rooming alone, besides the pleasure of following unasked his own peculiar notion in regard to the furnishing and temperature of the room, a man is not constantly liable to be interrupted in whatever he may be doing, by petty arguments with his chum about the meaning of a word or on some one's character, - arguments productive only of a mutual contempt of the other's opinion. If a man is so unfortunately constituted that he cannot endure his own society for more than fifteen consecutive minutes, he would better find some one to share the burden with...