Word: jaunting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...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...