CONCERNING THE "NICEST FELLOWS"
about it: he was a rather modest fellow, a younger brother of superior Dashwoods, but he could not forget, even if he wanted to, that he, too, was a Dashwood. In this case it took more than mere hazing to readjust his ego; hazing he looked upon as a tribute to his being a Dashwood. "Naturally I have been horsed a good deal," he wrote home.
When the Sophomores had finished with him he still went on the assumption that his own classmates would accord him what he considered no more than his just deserts—his full share, for instance, of the honors by popular election so dear to undergraduates. Why not? Had not the Dashwoods always been sought out for distinctions in Philadelphia? But would you believe it? many of these fellows had never heard of the Dashwoods before, and did not fancy the way this one said How-do-you-do. He was not even elected to the dance committee, though this was just the sort of thing he was suited for. All the earlier Dashwoods in college had been prominent socially, if in no other way.
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