Resumen
Resumen de La buena y vieja Siwash
Para quién es
For readers who love American humor, campus comedy and short, light sketches, and anyone curious about early twentieth century college life, football rivalries, fraternity schemes and student mischief.
De qué trata este libro
At Good Old Siwash is a book of comic sketches about life at a small Midwestern college. George Fitch, an American newspaper humorist, published it in 1911. Siwash is an invented school, and it stands in for the many small denominational colleges that dotted the American heartland in those years.
The book works like a guided tour given by a man who loves the place and cannot help laughing at it. You meet the football team, the fraternities, the classroom, the campus traditions and the odd rules that students invent for themselves. Fitch writes with big exaggeration and quick jokes. Let us start with the college itself, because the whole book rests on how he sees it.
En este resumen
- 1Siwash is a college you recognizeFree
- 2Football is the heart of the campus
- 3Fraternities scheme and compete
- 4Classrooms and professors get their share
- 5Youth makes trouble and mischief
- 6How Fitch tells it
Idea clave 1 de 6
Siwash is a college you recognize
Fitch presents Siwash as a small college with big pride. It has modest buildings, a loyal student body and a firm belief that it matters to the world. The humor starts from the gap between how grand the college feels to its students and how small it looks to outsiders.
The author writes as a proud graduate. He teases the place, but the teasing is affectionate. That tone sets the rules for the whole book.
For a modern reader, this opening shows how much of college life has stayed the same. Students still defend their school, mock its flaws and treat its small rituals as serious business.
That’s 1 of 6 key points.
The rest of the summary, written and spoken, and the whole book: free to start.
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