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Title: The Rover Boys at College
Author: Edward Stratemeyer
Release Date: November 27, 2003 [EBook #10323]
Language: English
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THE ROVER BOYS AT COLLEGE
OR

THE RIGHT ROAD AND THE WRONG
BY
ARTHUR M. WINFIELD
Author of "The Rover Boys at School," "The Rover Boys on the
Ocean," "The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle," Etc.
MCMX

BY THE SAME AUTHOR
* * * * *
THE ROVER BOYS AT SCHOOL, THE ROVER BOYS ON THE
OCEAN, THE ROVER BOYS ON LAND AND SEA, THE ROVER
BOYS IN CAMP, THE ROVER BOYS ON THE PLAINS, THE
ROVER BOYS IN SOUTHERN WATERS, THE ROVER BOYS ON
TREASURE ISLE.

CONTENTS
I ON THE TRAIN II AT THE SANDERSON HOUSE III LIKE
KNIGHTS OF OLD IV WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CAMPUS
FENCE V GETTING ACQUAINTED VI A HAZING, AND WHAT
FOLLOWED VII THE ARRIVAL OF SONGBIRD VIII THE
COLORS CONTEST IX TOM IN TROUBLE X SONGBIRD MAKES
A DISCOVERY XI HOW TOM ESCAPED PUNISHMENT XII IN
WHICH THE GIRLS ARRIVE XIII THE ROWING RACE XIV
WILLIAM PHILANDER TUBES XV AN AUTOMOBILING
ADVENTURE XVI SOMETHING ABOUT A CANE XVII A
MISUNDERSTANDING XVIII THE GREAT FOOTBALL GAME
XIX MORE COMPLICATIONS XX DAYS OF WAITING XXI
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS XXII WORD AT LAST XXIII THE

SPRINGTIME OF LIFE XXIV AT THE HAUNTED HOUSE XXV
IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY XXVI THE EVIDENCE
AGAINST THEM XXVII IN DISGRACE XXVIII DARK DAYS
XXIX WHAT THE GIRLS DISCOVERED XXX A BEGINNING
AND AN ENDING

THE ROVER BOYS AT COLLEGE
CHAPTER I
ON THE TRAIN
"We're making time now, Tom."
"Making time?" repeated Tom Rover as he gazed out of the car window
at the telegraph poles flashing past. "I should say we were, Sam! Why,
we must be running sixty miles an hour!"
"If we are not we are making pretty close to it," came from a third boy
of the party in the parlor car. "I think the engineer is trying to make up
some of the time we lost at the last stop."
"That must be it, Dick," said Sam Rover. "Gracious, how we are
rocking!" he added as the train rushed around a sharp curve and nearly
threw him from his chair.
"I hope we get to Ashton on time," remarked Tom Rover. "I want to
take a look around the grounds before it gets dark."
"That's Tom, wanting to see it all before he sleeps!" cried Sam Rover
with a grin. "You look out, Tom, that you don't get into disgrace the
first thing, as you did when we went to Putnam Hall Don't you
remember that giant firecracker, and how Josiah Crabtree locked you
up in a cell for setting it off?"
"Ugh! Will I ever forget it!" groaned Tom, making a wry face. "But I
got the best of old Crabtree, didn't I?" he continued, his face

brightening.
"Wonder if we'll make as many friends at college as we did at Putnam
Hall," remarked Dick Rover. "Those were jolly times and no mistake!
Think of the feasts, and the hazings, and the baseball and football, and
the rackets with the Pornell students, and all that!"
"Speaking of hazing, I heard that some of the hazing at the college
we're bound for is fierce," came from Sam Rover.
"Well, we'll have to stand for what comes, Sam," answered his big
brother. "No crying quit' here."
"Right you are, Dick," said Tom, "At the same time if--Great Caesar's
ghost, what's up now!"
As Tom uttered the last words a shrill whistle from the locomotive
pierced the air. Then came the sudden gripping of the air brakes on the
car wheels, and the express came to a stop with a shock that pitched all
the passengers from their seats. Tom and Sam went sprawling in a heap
in the aisle and Dick came down on top of them.
"Hi, get off of me!" spluttered Sam, who was underneath.
"What's the matter? Have we run into another train?" asked Tom as he
pushed Dick to one side and arose.
"I don't know," answered the older brother. "Something is wrong, that's
certain."
"Are you hurt, Sam?" asked Tom as he helped the youngest Rover