Word: maltreated
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...hours. A Freshman who is intimate with the powers that be is looked upon by his classmates of to-day pretty much as a man who was in league with the powers of darkness used to be regarded by their Puritan ancestors. They are naturally rather afraid to maltreat him openly; but he is sure to be excluded from decent society. And before you have been in college long, you will learn that decent society - or decent societies, for the word is generally used in the plural number - is the sole end of the ordinary student's life...