Shimerian

Students approach athletics at the College in a typically unusual, but very "Shimerian" way. When the school's basketball team finally won a game this spring after a national record of 62 consecutive losses students didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

A reward for the plant is being offered, in true "Shimerian fashion," said Buchanan.

Carol’s path to Shimer and then Parsons is quintessentially Shimerian.

But for Palmer and 396 other Shimerians, there are no such simple answers, no values in face values, and few thoughts, deeds, or situations undeserving of analysis and explanation.

Such a suggestion is scoffed at by Shimerians who maintain that they have the will to stave off institutional death.

For the last six years a group of Shimer alums together with some honorary Shimerians have been meeting once a month in Evanston.