text:  We were quiet enough in college--there is no fun in two men kicking up a row for the amusement of each other; even in the eye of the law three are required to constitute a riot; so on the strength of our good characters albeit somewhat recent of acquisition we dined two or three times with the fellows who were still in residence and who to do them justice sank a point or so from the usual stiffness of the common room and made our evenings agreeable enough