Word: siwashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge graduated from good old Siwash out on the plains where men begin to be men, he might be pardoned for a certain old fashioned prejudice at Eastern innovations. But being a New Englander he must know that flapping trousers are a heritage of the sea; if they penetrate to the inlands of jersey it must be either that they are beautiful or that the sailor sons of sailing fathers cooped up far from shore satisfy in this way their insatiable New England longing for the ocean wave. In any case, President Coolidge is wrong; he must have...
...been accustomed; they rebel and find the results unsatisfactory. Many of them can not become reconciled to the lecture system and the taking of notes. Some feel that Harvard men are given the preference. Then there is the old cry: "Now, at Columbia,--or the University of Chicago,--or Siwash College",--or where not. And I have always found that the loudest "laudatores collogli acti" and those who protest against Harvard injustice are Scholarship-holders. A fitting subject for a fable. F. M. CAREY '20, 3G. November...
...were and Eli, we would organized of Ku Klux party and ride one Mead Minnegeorde on a rail. Certainly no one has written a more ridiculous satire of Yale than this young man. Harvard men must not miss this epic of Siwash, Conn. "The Big Year" (Pulnam's) if it came from Cambridge, would be screamingly funny. As New Have propagands, it is a joke, all right, but not, we fear, by inteution...
...Harvard CRIMSON has lately raised the question of proper provision for the shifting population of students among American universities. By shifting population we mean those students who owe no true allegiance to any college but derive their four years education piecemeal from Siwash to Missouri. Of late years statistics show an increase in these intellectual wanderers. The question arises whether this type of education is thoroughly beneficial either to the universities visited or to the peripatetics themselves. We would answer with a very definite negative...