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Come down to Yale at football time, at football time, at football time; Come down to Yale at football time (it isn't far from Vassar) And you will wander hand in hand with someone else's roommate, and Will drink a pail of Mory's ale (and oh, so near to Vassar...
...punch he requested is called "The Green Dragon," and its ingredients, hitherto kept secret, are as follows: 2 gal. pure grain alcohol; 2 gal. luke warm water; 1 pt. rum flavoring; 2 qt. cointreau; 2 qt. brandy; 3 qt. iced tea; 1 gal. charged water; 1 gal. ginger ale; and 4 gal. grapefruit juice...
...against it. He was against tobacco, alcohol, coffee, tea, corsets, cocoa, ginger ale, sirloin steak, vaccination, capital punishment, Tammany Hall and artificially flavored lollipops. He could spot a cocoa drinker at 20 paces by the "yellow eyes and degenerate skin." Once he weaned a Sing Sing death-house prisoner from tobacco, several days before execution. During World War I he wired President Wilson that coffee would prevent U.S. soldiers from shooting straight, and ought to be forbidden them...
...session, by summer School officials, food at the Union, (where all Freshmen cat together) miraculously escaped serious criticism. During the history of Harvard, food served by the university has come in for more brickbats than any of its other features. Since the days when they wailed that "the ale is foul," and "the butter stinketh," students have periodically attacked the bill of fare. Thus it is notable that this year's summer members let the Union off with only a few mild criticisms...
...their experiments, Drs. Wolff, James D. Hardy and Helen Goodell tried a mixture of two ounces of 95% grain alcohol in a glass of ginger ale on themselves, found that it raises the "threshold" of pain 45% for two hours. Two ounces of 90-proof whiskey will turn the same trick. If a five-grain tablet of aspirin is added, any pain can be dulled for four hours. Dr. Wolff urged his colleagues to return to the use of whiskey for "persons suffering continuously," especially cancer victims. Said he: "It is cheaper than morphine. ... Of course alcohol is habit-forming...