Monthly Archives: November 2011

About ten years ago a friend recommended that I read the novel “South of the Big Four,” by Don Kurtz. I liked it and suggested it to a number of other friends. Their responses, however, proved considerably less enthusiastic than … Continue reading →

This is the season for rivalry games. It seems that every college has one. Many, like ours with Knox College, date back more than a century to the origins of intercollegiate football and sometimes even to the origins of the … Continue reading →