This "cenobitical symposium" concluded, they again returned to the college yard, where, scattered in groups under the trees, the rest of the day was spent in singing, smoking, and drinking, or pretending to drink, punch; for the negroes who supplied it in pails usually contrived to take two or more glasses to every one glass that was drank by those for whom it was provided.
"A Collection of College Words and Customs"
Benjamin Homer Hall
The cenobitical life rapidly and necessarily superseded that of the solitary.
"Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe"
Sabine Baring-Gould