Word: wineing
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Ruddy is the wine...
...different are the tests by which we try our friends' characters! What different standards do we form, and how variously do we apply them! A man's taste in pictures, in tobacco, in wine, and in society, all serve as touchstones, to be applied to him by one or another of his friends. Mere acquaintances judge you by your gait, your clothes, the sound of your voice, the tie of your cravat, and the smoothness of your hair. And even in this they do not seem to be consistent, often applying the test in an exactly opposite manner to different...
HAVING excommunicated the wine-sauce, billiards, and boating of Princeton, the religious papers will have a fresh source of anxiety in the Dartmouth's recent announcement that "a new stock of cards has been put into the Library." To save the valuable time of these astute periodicals, we explain that the aforementioned cards are simply and solely for cataloguing purposes. How hard up for news the editors of the Dartmouth were is shown by the following brevity...
...foreign travel. Dignity is given to the place by a set of men called Fellows, who, living at the expense of the College, spend the day in walking about arm in arm, looking immensely important, and occupy the evening in telling stories and drinking immense quantities of Port wine. To gain a fellowship is the aim of every undergraduate...
...each of which I will speak separately. The first consists of societies which have some serious object in view, which may be roughly described as the pursuit of Cape Flyaway; the second of open societies, which are devoted to amusement; the third of clubs proper, where you can get wine and cigars and gossip of the most correct sort at the cheapest price; and the fourth of secret societies, of which the objects are unknown and the names are forbidden words...