Word: beering
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...pass the examinations which close the American schoolboy's career, but his dissipations are of a very different sort. During the last two years of his gymnasium course, he finds it necessary to have miniature "commerce" or drinking bouts. The boy who downs the greatest number of glasses of beer becomes the pet of the class much in the same way that in America the best foot-ball player becomes the hero of his schoolmates...
...lecture is delivered. It is expected that all conversations will be carried on in French, and if any questions are to be asked they must be clothed in the prescribed language. After the lecture or reading, the meeting adjourns, and a slight lunch is offered of crackers, cheese and beer...
...Haven upon the occasion of a freshmen contest between Yale and Harvard. X is an athlete of whom his class is proud. Y is a butterfly. During the game, X distinguishes himself for fine playing. When the game is over, X and Y have a bottle of beer together and sleep all the way from New Haven to Boston with their arms about each other's neck! Very good...
...that of Memorial Hall, both in point of quality of food and in service; and this, in spite of the fact that the number of boarders is little more than a hundred. Cigars and cigarettes appear on the order list; and each man is allowed to have his own beer...
...meeting was no more like a beer garden than freshman meetings usually are. though at times it smacked strongly of the menagerie...