He was a solitary man who had made his friends at college and always addressed them as if they were still undergraduates arguing in his room, though many months or even years had passed in some cases between the last sentence and the present one.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
It went back to when they were both undergraduates.
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover
Alfred Tennyson and Arthur H. Hallam met, as undergraduates, at Trinity College, Cambridge, about the year 1828. Tennyson, born in 1809, was the older by one year and a half.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty