Speaking of this it may be well to explain that in all colleges the juniors take this attitude toward the freshmen.
As a rule the freshman receives the attention of a junior with a great deal of gratitude, but also as a rule he does not find that it amounts to very much.
The junior is ever ready to give him a good deal of solid advice, and a great deal more ready to get the freshman to do errands for him, and all manner of odd jobs that the freshman is quite sure to do, until, as the boys say, he tumbles to the fact that after all the junior is really making game of him.
"Speaking of hazing, though," said Page, suddenly, "I've got a new room."
"Have you? Where is it?" asked Rattleton.
"It's up High Street a way, in one of the oldest houses in New Haven."
"Good room?" asked Browning.
"Capital! I've got to do some grinding this year and the room will suit me exactly for that, but there'll be hours when the books can be forgotten, and then you fellows'll find that the room is a corker for cards or any sort of jollification."
"I don't see what that's got to do with hazing," remarked Merriwell. "You said that the hazing reminded you of it."
"Yes, I'll tell you why, or rather I'll show you. There's something about that room that would be perfectly immense if we were sophomores now. Come down and see it, will you?"