Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this musical strangulation didn't hamper the O.G.'s popularity. If it wasn't famed for singing, it had always held a reputation for its unquenchable jumbo and before the war, Houses would compete to chug-a-lug the fastest. Holding ten regular beer glasses, the jumbo provided a nightly chance to manipulate the esophagus against a stop-watch, and the takers were many. The present record is 2 min. 3 sec. and the contest is still open; but the jumbo is as big as ever. Interest has slackened a bit now the required deposit...
...over after the shows, leaving tips on the tables and their pictures over the bar. Proud of its exotic liqueur collection from 52 countries, the prewar O.G. would guarantee a free drink of any brand not found in stock. Although this service has since been stopped, the beer drinker has not been neglected, and the O.G. has all kinds; bock, stout, and a varity in Cambridge, porter in bottles. Porter, by the way, is a weak stout, and is as satisfying to the beer drinker as a gut course is to the gentleman...
...beer isn't everything and before eight the O.G. wears tablecloths and sports menus and silverware. Lunch and dinner are on the card, as well as a collegiate sandwich assortment, named after Radcliffe, M.I.T. and other nearby schools. Although the tagging is arbitrary, it may not seem so to M.I.T. students who dislike cole slaw, for cole slaw bulks large in the Tech sandwich. It sells well, nevertheless, and all together the O.G. dispenses more food than drink and considers itself more a dining room than an ivy-covered beer hall. But to the sentimental or the thirsty...
...Beer-sipping customers lifted their heads but slightly as a dozen firemen neatly dismantled one wall of the Harvard Garden Grill last night. Three trucks and a hook and ladder and converged on the tavern at 10:15 o'clock and close to 100 bystanders stood and watched...
...last drive, Edward T. Kenyon '50 was vampired for an extra pint while another student vamped one of the female blood-letters on Memorial Hall steps. Kenyon quickly restored his internal liquid supply at a local beer emporium, but admitted that it was a trying experience...