The College

" I opened the door and there sat a great awkward slooney at a small table, from which he never offered to rise. ... I asked him 'to have the goodness to inform me how to find Mr. Morris, I was told he boarded at the house.' He 'knew nothing about such a man.' He spoke quite as rough as he looked. 'Such a gentleman is a student here - you appear to be one of the students and not know your fellow student.' 'No he did not know such a man.' I began to tremble for Dartmouth and told him 'if he was a specimen it was in a pitiable state indeed.' He gazed at me in astonishment, and said he 'wished I would go out and shut the door.' "

an English traveler

The Black Book, 1828