5 qts West India rum 5 17 6 1 qr. lb. Tea, 12 1 doz. fowls, 2 10 2 lbs. loaf sugar, 16 1 doz-8 lemons, 1 9 3 lbs. butter, 12 In a book published in 1764 describing student life at Princeton, it is stated that "the general table drink is beer or cider." Washington Irving, in _Salmagundi_, described seeing two students at the tavern at Princeton who got drunk and cursed the professors. Madison was a _poler_ at Princeton, and although the five o'clock horn was a sovereign preventive of midnight revelry, Madison was occasionally found around the blazing logs of the Nassau Inn, when tankards of ale and puffs at the long stemmed pipes punctuated the students' songs. James Buchanan at Dickinson was the typical _bad boy_. Immorality was rampant among the students, sobriety and books were ridiculed. Buchanan became a leader in debauchery, although his physique enabled him at the same time to maintain a high rank in scholarship. The faculty chose him as a scapegoat, and he was expelled. Benny Havens, the hero of the West Point song, for many years sold liquor illicitly to the cadets. The foundation of Vassar College was the fortune acquired by Matthew Vassar as a brewer. CHAPTER IV _Bench and Bar_ The field which then lay before the ablest lawyers was far less extensive and far less lucrative than at present. Thousands of cases now arise which could not then have possibly arisen. No wealthy corporations existed, expending each year in lawyers' fees enough money to have paid the taxes of the four colonies of New England. Patent law and railroad law, the business of banks and insurance companies, express companies, telegraph companies, and steamships, have given rise to legal questions of which neither Parsons, nor Tudor, nor Dexter had any conception whatever. A fee of $20,000 was unknown; a suit involving $50,000,000 was unheard of. Yet the profession was not ill-paid and offered many incentives to bright young men. The law student of that day usually began by offering his services to some lawyer of note, and if they were accepted he paid a fee of a hundred dollars, and began to read law books and copy briefs. In the course of two years he was expected to have become familiar with _Coke on Littleton_, with Wood's _Institutes of Civil Law_, with _Piggot on Conveyances_, with Burns's _Justice of the Peace_, with Hawkin's _Pleas of the Crown_, with Salkeld's _Reports_, with Lillie's _Abridgements_, and with some work on chancery practice and some work on what would now be called international law. This accomplished, his patron would take him into court, seat him at the lawyers' table, whisper to the gentlemen present, and with their consent would rise and ask leave of the court to present a young man for the oath of an attorney. The court would ask if the bar consented. The lawyers would then bow. The patron would