| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Patch-Withers | "[he] was substitute Headmaster for the summer" |
| Patch-Withers | "[he] offered the traditional term tea to the Upper Middle class |
| Prud'homme | "He was broad-shouldered, grave, and he wore a gray business suit" |
| Prud'homme | "he was a substitute for the summer. He enforced such rules as he knew; missing dinner was one of them." |
| Brinker | His face was all straight lines—eyebrows, mouth, nose, everything -and he carried his six feet of height straight well" |
| Brinker | "He looked but happened not to be athletic, being too busy with politics, arrangements, and offices." |
| Dr. Stanpole | "thinking to be kind, [he] put his hand on my shoulder. At his touch I lost all hope of controlling myself" |
| Chet Douglass | "[he] was weakened by the very genuineness of his interest in learning." |
| Leper | "He generally made little sketches of birds and trees in the back of his notebook during chapel, so that he had probably not heard the announcement" |
| Mr. Ludsbury | "He was in charge of the dormitory; one of the dispensations of those days of deliverance, I realized now, had been his absence" |
| Quackenbush | "[he] had been systematically disliked since he first set foot in Devon, with careless, disinterested insults coming at him from the beginning" |
| Quackenbush | "I even sympathized with his trembling, goaded egotism" |
| Gene | "You want to be head of the class, valedictorian, so you can make a speech on Graduation Day" |
| Finny | "He was my height—five feet eight and a half inches. He weighed a hundred and fifty pounds, a galling ten pounds more than I did." |
| Finny | "a student who combined a calm ignorance of the rules with a winning urge to be good" |
| Gene | "Everybody's staring at you. It's because of that movie-star tan you picked up this afternoon...showing off again." |
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