A minute later the farmer turned his team around and was gone in a cloud of dust.
Tom was introduced to Stanley and Max, and the whole crowd walked slowly back to the college grounds.

Then Tom was taken to his room, the others going up-stairs with him.

He washed and brushed up, went to the office and registered, and then the bell rang for supper.
The dining hall at Brill was a more elaborate affair than the messroom at Putnam Hall, but the Rovers were used to dining out in fine places, so they felt perfectly at home.

Dick and Sam had already met the instructor who had charge of their table, Mr.Timothy Blackie, and they introduced Tom.

Stanley and Max were at the same table and also a long-haired youth named Will Jackson, although his friends called him "Spud." "I don't know why they call me Spud," he said to Dick, "excepting because I like potatoes so.