Word: drank
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...friend's example. This is the statement that "D" challenges. I do not say that Gosling does drink to excess, but I say that he will if Swellington does, and I draw the conclusion from Gosling's conduct in other matters. When "D" says that no man ever "drank to excess, in spite of his dislike to liquor, because it was the 'proper caper,'" he shows a surprising lack of knowledge of human nature. It is natural for a man to do what the man whom he admires does. Human nature is much the same in Harvard College...
That any one who knows much of college men and college manners seriously believes this is true, I doubt. Who ever heard of a man who, in spite of his dislike to liquor, drank to excess because he heard it was the "proper caper"? A great many hard things have been charged against the Harvard undergraduate; but this is the first time, to my knowledge, that he has been accused of imbecility...
...crystal draught I often drank...
...drank to the health of the Czar...
...accosted me, "Hallo, old boy! I thought you had reformed." "Troja fuit," I merely replied, feeling a little ashamed of giving up so soon; but a minute later, when Carl's flaxen-haired Ganymede brought me a schooner, all shame had left me, and alone by myself I drank down a toast which my classmate who met me at the car would probably translate in this way: "Reform to the other side of the Styx...