Word: siwashes
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...press box, on the 50-yard line, sits an undergraduate from each of the contesting colleges. These students are provided with field glasses and an ability to recognize at sight all the members of their respective teams. When a play starts, they train their glasses on the scrimmage. The Siwash undergraduate says, "Shakespeare carrying the ball." As soon as the tackle is made, the Massachusetts undergraduate says, "Jones made the tackle...
Just what "freshwater college" means has always been a bit hazy in my mind, but if it means "lovers' lane;" "the Cannon;' college town;" nearby woods and swimmin' pools, as compared with various asphalt diploma factories, every Freshwater College from Princeton to Siwash will gladly join the chorus. Ask George...
...went to Harvard and can't be expected to know, therefore, that "Brown of Harvard" never went there either. Not by several thousand miles; not in spirit or by proxy or by a damsite, or in any other way. Brown belongs not to Old Harvard but, remotely, to Old Siwash, which never existed. And much the same is true of all his playmates in the picture. As to the action...
...happy and still unbattered. West Somerville boys, working out in Southern training camps, are said to be displacing Cobb and Ruth. The Boston baseball management says definitely for the first time that both teams will unquestionably win pennants. James James Carbunkle is heralded as the new basketball captain of Siwash, having served faithfully on the team some eight or ten years. It seems that Harvard is not going to build Finnish or Turkish baths on Soldiers Field. E. Plato Ward, an American, is accredited with having won the annual Parisian cross country race, through the Bois and back to Zellies...
...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...