A collection of humorous short stories about college life at the fictional Siwash College. Each chapter presents a new escapade and scheme of the students. Enjoyable for fans of classic American humor.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
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Opening of the book
AT GOOD OLD SIWASH BY GEORGE FITCH ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1916 Copyright, 1910, 1911, By the Curtis Publishing Company. Copyright, 1911, By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved Printers S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U.S.A. Twenty-five yards with four Muggledorfer men hanging on his legs Frontispiece. See page 19 Twenty-five yards with four Muggledorfer men hanging on his legs Frontispiece. Page 19 AT GOOD OLD SIWASH PREFACE Little did I think, during the countless occasions on which I have skipped blithely over the preface of a book in order to plunge into the plot, that I should be called upon to write a preface myself some day. And little have I realized until just now the extreme importance to the author of having his preface read. I want this preface to be read, though I have an uneasy premonition that it is going to be skipped as joyously as ever I skipped a preface myself. I want the reader to toil through my preface in order to save him the task of trying to follow a plot through this book. For if he attempts to do this he will most certainly dislocate something about himself very seriously. I have found it impossible, in writing of college days which are just one deep-laid scheme after another, to confine myself to one plot. How could I describe in one plot the life of the student who carries out an average of three plots a day? It is unreasonable. So I have done the next best thing. There is
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