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...thought mars the perfection of this idyllic picture; the guests were engaged in executing repairs on the outside of the club, and it is quite possible--though the thought is an unworthy one--that the hosts hoped to expedite matters by a timely application of lager beer and roast beef...
...gentle-hearted Charles is delightfully evident in Mr. Ladd's "Deductions from the Death and Burial of Two Pigs." A delicious phantasy this! We trim our leg-o'-mutton sail and are off for the El Dorado of Roast Pig--which is none other than Old Man Pratt's farmhouse, over to Grennell's Green. Son Jake greets us at the door with a huge grin. And there is Bid, the heavy hired girl. And Ma Pratt. And Pa Pratt. And we all pull up chairs together. "Pitch in, everybody. . . . It looks richer than burnt gold, and it tastes like...
Lampy surely is hard on Yale. From the prologue to the Arrow collar ad. on the back page, no quarter is given the Elis except in the sizes of the Arrow collars. It takes our own bi-weekly comic to roast Yale off the gridiron...
...made possible courses which otherwise would have required a new force of instructors. They have spent many hours and no little effort, and imposed upon themselves tiresome and unpleasant tasks. They have devoted evenings to the drudgery of correcting section papers. In everything, from acting as majors to preparing roast-beef and jelly sandwiches, they have been unsparing of their labors...
While President Wilson and Congress are deliberating as to the best means and methods for avoiding a war with Germany and retaining some traces of national honor, there appears in the CRIMSON a superbly irrelevant discussion on roast pigs...