You'll learn.

Anybody might have got rattled by having to argue against as clever and good-looking a girl as that!" The roommates gave each other a look of serious puzzlement as the door closed.

"Well, Brother Colburn is a mighty nice fellow," Fred said.
"He's kind of funny, though." Ramsey assented, and then, as the two prepared for bed, they entered into a further discussion of their senior friend.

They liked him "all right," they said, but he certainly must be kind of queer, and they couldn't just see how he had "ever managed to get where he was" in the "frat" and the Lumen and the university..