They began to see "college life." Vandover was already smoking; pretty soon he began to drink.

He affected beer, whisky he loathed, and such wine as was not too expensive was either too sweet or too sour.

It became a custom for the three to go into town two or three nights in the week and have beer and Welsh rabbits at Billy Park's.

On these occasions, however, young Haight drank only beer, he never touched wine or spirits.
It was in Billy Park's the evening after the football game between the Yale and Harvard freshmen that Vandover was drunk for the first time.

He was not so drunk but that he knew he was, and the knowledge of the fact so terrified him that it kept him from getting very bad.