He used the word "our" as between the university president and his honorary treasurer.
"How did it happen ?" asked Mr.Furlong.
"Most distressing," said the president.

"Dr.McTeague, it seems, had just entered his ten o'clock class (the hour was about ten-twenty) and was about to open his lecture, when one of his students rose in his seat and asked a question.

It is a practice," continued Dr.Boomer, "which, I need hardly say, we do not encourage; the young man, I believe, was a newcomer in the philosophy class.

At any rate, he asked Dr.McTeague, quite suddenly it appears; how he could reconcile his theory of transcendental immaterialism with a scheme of rigid moral determinism.

Dr.McTeague stared for a moment, his mouth, so the class assert, painfully open.