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rally - to come to the aid or support of a person or thing

recitations - saying out loud the things the author was learning (and memorizing)

reclining - resting; stretched out; leaning back

recognized - (while at the train depot) knew, found familiar; (in the case of teachers) spoke to; acknowledged

recollection - remembrance; memory

records - written accounts; all the facts about what a person has done (in this case, while in school); grades

refinement - good manners

registered - signed up for classes and was written in the records as a full student

"registration blanks" - forms or papers that have to be filled out before one can be accepted into a college or university

"registration day" - the day on which students at a college or university sign up for classes

required - supposed to have done

residences - places where people lived; houses or homes

resigned - gave up his position (in this case, at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville for a better position at Hendrix)

responsibility - feeling concern or duty toward

retired - took himself away from his job

return - to come or go back (in this case, the author knew he would not be able to go back to the University in the fall)

roomed - lived in a dorm room

rural - in, having to do with, or like the country