"I'll talk to Prescott.

Old ramrod, I haven't seen you at any of the hops this year." "Haven't had a femme to drag," replied Dick, as he picked up a sheet of notes and began to scan it.
"Why don't you turn pirate, then, as I do," yawned Haynes, "and get the fellows to write you down on the cards they're making up for their femmes ?" "I hadn't thought of that," replied Dick.

"I don't believe, when I have no femme to drag to the hops, that it would make me any more popular with the fellows, either.

A fellow who pirates at all should drag a spoony femme pretty often himself." "Why," asked Hayes, opening his eyes rather wide, "are you boning bootlick with any but officers ?" "Boning bootlick" means to curry favor.

Occasionally a cadet who wants cadet honors resorts to "boning bootlick" with the tactical officers stationed at the academy.
"I'm not boning bootlick with cadets or with officers either," retorted Dick rather crisply.
"I've never had the delight of wearing chevrons, you know." Haynes flushed a trifle.