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This piece orignally appeared in the January 23, 1967 issue of the Crimson, and was written by George H. Rosen '68. We re-run it for two reasons: one, this is exam period, and two, wisdom is timeless. Cambridge may have more construction sites than it needs, and Roast Beef specials are up to $1.80 but some things never change...
...have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow. ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60 cents ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would be devastated and there wouldn't be any exams...
...foods that seem traditionally American: the turkey, the yam, the potato, the pumpkin. For starters, how about pumpkin soup? Or bawd bree, the rich hare broth of Scotland? It might be followed by Colombia's pato borracho (drunken duckling) or Gaelic roastit bubblyjock wi' cheston crappin (roast turkey with chestnuts) and rumblede-thumps (creamed potatoes and cabbage). Dessert could be Mexican torta del cielo, or a rum-flavored nut tart from France, or Irish plum cake...
...before Mlle. de Réveillon, reason enough to provide the formula for homard à l'Américaine. Albertine pleads for skate with black butter; King delivers it. Marcel wrote affectionately of éclairs, marrons glacés, strawberry juice, orangeade, chocolate cake, oysters, petite marmite, roast goose ("superbly limbed and shining with gravy"), hare a l'Allemande and venison that was "dark, brown-fleshed, hot and soused [with red wine and cognac], over which the red-currant jelly has laid a cool, sweet surface." These and many, many other delights are recollected in tranquillity. Side...
...hundreds of invited guests moved from a roast beef dinner in the Palmer Dixon Tennis Courts to the majestic new home of Harvard hockey, old-timers kept murmuring to each other, "I can't believe what they've done to Watson Rink...