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Animal House, Revisited 1

Katherine Streeter for The Chronicle

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Katherine Streeter for The Chronicle

Here's to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Lying, Stealing, Cheating, and Drinking. If you're going to lie, lie to a pretty girl. If you're going to steal, steal from bad company. If you're going to cheat, cheat death. And if you're going to drink, drink with me.

So goes a popular toast often heard in fraternity basements at Dartmouth College, my alma mater. Biblical inaccuracies aside, that cheer, followed by all participants' draining their cups, reveals the essence of

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