Résumé
Résumé de Au bon vieux Siwash
À qui s’adresse-t-il ?
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.
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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.
Dans ce résumé
- 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
Point clé 1 sur 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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Questions about Au bon vieux Siwash
What is At Good Old Siwash about?
It is a set of comic sketches about life at Siwash, an invented small Midwestern college. The stories cover football, fraternities, classes, pranks and campus traditions, all told with affectionate exaggeration.
Is Siwash a real college?
Siwash is a fictional college. Fitch used it to stand for the many small American colleges of his day, and readers have often taken it as a general name for such a school.
When was At Good Old Siwash written?
George Fitch published it in 1911. It reflects American college life in the early twentieth century, when football and fraternities held a large place on campus.
Is At Good Old Siwash hard to read?
No. The sketches are short, the sentences are quick and the humor is direct. The jokes about students and school pride are easy to follow.
Is it a novel or a story collection?
It reads as a series of linked humorous sketches about one college and not as a single plot. You can enjoy each chapter alone or read them in order.