Education: Great Port, That

Rusticated for trying to hurl a don into a pond, 22-year-old President Frederic Carl Granville Bradley of the Claret Club of Trinity College, Oxford explained to the A.P. the steps that led up to the fateful incident: 1) "We put on our club dress—the blue dinner jacket with the red facing and white tie; 2) we drank Merienda, an excellent, medium-dry sherry. Then we adjourned to the hall to take Chablis with the oysters; 3) this was followed by a clear soup. With the next dish, turbot—that's a fish—cutlets—we took a little hock; 4)...

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