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...stock, is of course, the most important consideration. It would have to keep always to the delicate line between heartiness and vulgarity, inclining not too much to the spirituous side, nor overstressing the products of the barleycorn. First, beer on draught, and then some good English ale; Bass No. 1 would do admirably. Then stout, not in bottles, but in the wood, and a good variety of the other malt brews; hard cider, with some Perry that is not too strong; rum, whisky, gin, and a few of the cheaper wines...
...mellow afternoons and roistering evenings over the tables of the university pub. In the mild spring twilights, after a long stroll along the river, he would stride obliviously through the bustle of office-workers returning home, choose himself an obscure but well-placed table, order himself a pint of ale, and observe the passers-by with that careless insolence which is proper only to Vagabonds and dowagers. Or perhaps, driving in from a gay, day-long junketing in the newly green countryside, he and she would stop for a glass or two of sherry to cap off their Dutch cheese...
...that principle of more general application: "Ale, man ale's the stuff to drink...
...twopence." Even the Greek golden mean could not sober up the great tutor Person. These may be harsh truths, but Harvard can not with impunity appropriate the more outer trappings of Georgian buildings. Every discreet and rebellious panel years to look once more upon the honest revelry of ale. And the shades of the old Moors can not but rise in anger at the aridity of the common rooms which their antique arches crown. The Canutes of the south have retired in ignoble confusion. Cambridge also must struggle in vain against the triumph of a reborn tide...
...treadmills, sweat off fat in a straw box, have their heads shampooed by trainers. Two to three weeks before fighting they spar in spurs covered with leather rolls. Oldtime English trainers fed their fowl a diet of seeds, plants, bark and roots, washed down with stale beer and ale, white wine, sack gin and whiskey. Thirsty trainers drank the mixture themselves, called it cock-bread-ale, cock-ale or cocktails...