Word: roasting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...
Everyone doubtless knows of the man who burned down his house in order to roast his pig. His problem symbolizes some aspects of our war problem. Let the roasting of the pig stand for the object of a war, let the man stand for the American people, and the house for the American civilization which is a-building. Now let us suppose the man is deliberating whether he will roast the pig, and, if so, whether by setting fire to the house. Similarly, the first question for the American people to settle is, "What are the objects...
...noon commons we have a great plenty of roast goose. Probably every one in the hall (which amounted to eight or ten) might have been bought for a dollar. Indeed, I never saw such tough, raw-boned, shocking, ill-looking animals ever placed upon a table. I hope something better will come tomorrow...