When the great football games came off he worked himself into a frenzy of excitement over them and even tried to make several of his class teams, though without success.
He chummed with Charlie Geary and with young Dolliver Haight, the two San Francisco boys.

The three were continually together.

They took the same courses, dined at the same table in Memorial Hall and would have shared the same room if it had been possible.

Vandover and Charlie Geary were fortunate enough to get a room in Matthew's on the lower floor looking out upon the Yard; young Haight was obliged to put up with an outside room in a boarding house.
Vandover had grown up with these fellows and during all his life was thrown in their company.

Haight was a well-bred young boy of good family, very quiet; almost every morning he went to Chapel.