time-endorsed

Updated: May 1, 2025

Each new matriculant was expected, although many failed to conform to the arrangement, to select an evening on which to entertain his fellow students, the entertainment consisting generally in furnishing biscuits and beer the old, time-endorsed 'cakes and ale. In partaking of these, smoking, relating humorous stories, chaffing each other and singing rousing songs, the evening usually passed with much bonhommie.

Cyrus MacMillan - McGill and its Story, 1821-1921