Murphy raised his hogs as they had been raised down the centuries: in a mud pit sprinkled with plenty of corn feed.

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Jeremy Brown, who was graduated from MIT in 1995 and got a PhD there in 2002, remembers when a student broke her arm in a mud-wrestling pit at a party.

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