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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: college friendships, that we fancy that no University in the
kingdom is in so poor a plight. Our system is full of
anomalies. A, who cut B whilst he was a shabby student,
curries sedulously up to him and cudgels his memory for
anecdotes about him when he becomes the great so-and-so. Let
there be an end of this shy, proud reserve on the one hand,
and this shuddering fine ladyism on the other; and we think
we shall find both ourselves and the College bettered. Let
it be a sufficient reason for intercourse that two men sit
together on the same benches. Let the great A be held
excused for nodding to the shabby B in Princes Street, if he
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