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The Ox Roast More than twelve thousand University folk and townspeople swarmed to the campus just after sunset to give battle for their morsel of food! The southeast corner of the campus, fronting High Street and Eleventh Avenue, had been walled off in canvas, spotlights played over the enclosure, from deep pits in the "field kitchens" came the savory odor of the roasting ox, on all sides were booths and sideshows manned by undergraduates offering circus attractions of infinite variety. On a big stage near the entrance were a score of student musicians whose strident syncopation seemed never to cease.
The crowd, larger by several thousands than anticipated, could not be handled. Arrangements to serve the barbecue fare proved unequal to the task. The spirit of roistering jubilee swept the throng. Roped-off aisleways weakened and gave way as thousands stormed the breadlines. Hordes of the hungry swarmed in, upsetting tables, pans, stoves, and platters-actually trampling food in the turf.
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