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...there each couple was furnished with riding horses, chauffeur and car, pilot and airplane. Able son of an able father, likable "Chuck" was, needless to say, quite popular. Nearly omniscient TIME, still with eyes turned slightly eastward, brings to light many a Yarvard yarn, fails to see many a Siwash romance. CAREY CRONEIS Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1932 | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

Although the school has never had a department of journalism, in that direction is it best represented by its alumni. Knox was the " Siwash" of George Hamlin Fitch. Famed among other writing Knox alumni are: Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology), Don Marquis (The Old Soak), Eugene Field (newspaper colyumist, Poems of Childhood). Her two alumni presidents are journalists?President Britt and Dr. John Huston Finley (president 1892-99), now " editor emeritus" of the New York Times. Oldest living graduate (1859) is Ellen Browning Scripps, sister of Edward Wyllis Scripps and a prime mover in the early days of Scripps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Knox-Lombard Merger | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

...rights of other individuals involved in the practice of demolishing subway rolling stock, such conduct hardly reflects credit upon the rioters themselves or upon the institution which in the popular mind they represent. The Boston Traveler is to be congratulated on recognizing the fact that "this sort of Siwash stuff" is not in fact representative of Harvard; others, less discriminating are not likely to be so generous if the subway customs of the last two years become a tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT, THIRD CLASS | 2/15/1930 | See Source »

That sort of Siwash stuff does not go at Harvard. It might be all right in some talk-town college in the middle 'Vest we are the yokels cut up to impress co-aids, but it is an indication that have crept into Harvard youngsters ist behind the ears and sadly in bibs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/15/1930 | See Source »

...Massachusetts defeated Siwash on a wet field here today, 27-0. The long passes of the Bay Staters were too much for the men from the West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business of Reporting Gridiron Clashes Is As Specialized As Bootlegger's Trade | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

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