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xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Introduction -- A short history of higher education / Richard Armour -- Solemnity, gloom and the academic style: a reflection / John Kenneth Galbraith -- How to get in / Richard Armour -- The rich scholar ; Off to college / Teresa Bloomingdale -- Gather round, collegians / Roy Blount, Jr. -- I'm intelligent and get nowhere / Jules Feiffer -- Hail to thee, Okoboji! / Newsweek -- Wherefore art thou Nittany? / Calvin Trillin -- University days / James Thurber -- Letters / Teresa Bloomingdale -- Graffiti on a washroom / Mrs. Gene Arthur -- She's all I know about Bryn Mawr / James Thruber -- A taste of Princeton / Max Eastman -- Hell only breaks loose once / James Thruber -- Sexual harassment at Harvard: three letters / John Kenneth Galbraith -- The sage's progress / Samuel Pickering, Jr. -- The mind of Professor Primrose / Ogden Nash -- The posthumous reputation of Professor Crump / David M. Rein -- It's publish or perish / Mischa Richter -- I know, but all promises are off / William Hamilton -- The faculty meeting / Jeremy Bernstein -- Faculties at large / John R. Clark -- Professor Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov -- The Rivercliff golf killings / Don Marquis -- Two limericks / Bennett Cerf -- Interview of Professor Cavendish / Garry Trudeau -- Professor Tattersall / Peter de Vries -- Report on the Barnhouse effect / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Soby / Wright Morris. |
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The curriculum / Richard Armour -- Memo from Osiris / Gary Jay Williams -- Catalog of courses: Aquarius U. non campus mentis / John D. Kirwan -- Easy road to culture, sort of / Eric Larrabee -- Handy-dandy plan to save our colleges / Leo Rosten -- Jocelyn College / Mary McCarthy -- Reforming Yale / Mark Twain -- The groves of academe: deep, deep words / Willard P. Espy -- Students of the class of '58 / Jules Feiffer -- Survey of literature / John Crowe Ransom -- Shakespeare explained / Robert Benchley -- Good, but not immortal / Al Ross -- The Shakespeare interview / Brock Brower -- Professor Gratt / Donald Hall -- The cliche expert testifies on literary criticism / Frank Sullivan -- Today's book is a rather bulky but promising / Jules Feiffer -- Great poets / Richard Armour -- Lines long after Pope, by a reader of freshman themes / Richard Armour -- Webley I. Webster: wisdom of the ages / Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding -- He knows all about art / James Thruber -- The immortal hair trunk / Mark Twain -- Harpist shooting arrow / Al Ross -- How to understand music / Robert Benchley -- 1776 and all that. The first memorable history of America / Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin -- If he scholars, let him go / Ogden Nash -- Well, today I begin my wonderfully perceptive and cogent book -- So this is the hundred-thousand-dollar Wilson P. Donovan chair of history / Henry Martin -- He doesn't know anything but facts / James Thurber. |
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The truth about history / Roy Blount, Jr. -- If grant had been drinking at Appomattox / James Thurber -- The universe and the philosopher / Don Marquis -- My philosophy / Woody Allen -- The higher pantheism in a nutshell / A.C. Swinburne -- The philosopher and the oyster / James Thurber -- The boring leading the bored / Steve Martin -- Existentialism: the inside story / Delmore Schwartz -- Science / Fran Lebowitz -- A philosopher / Sam Walter Foss -- Whatever it is, it's very, very little / Stevenson -- Mr. Science / Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding -- One very smart tomato / Russell Baker -- Botanist, aroint thee! or, henbane by any other name / Ogden Nash -- Nonsense botany / Edward Lear -- Book learning / E.B. White -- Prehistoric animals of the Middle West / James Thurber -- Professor Gulliver Grebe's adventures among the Snarfs / Pierre Berton -- Capture of three physics professors / James Thurber -- A pure mathematician / Arthur Guiterman -- From the cyclotron of Berkeley to the labs of M.I.T. / Modell -- The professors discuss nuclear war / Jules Feiffer -- Thinking black holes through / Roy Blount, Jr. -- The purist / Ogden Nash -- Theoretical theories / John Bailey -- Professor Piccard / E.B. White -- How Newton discovered the law of gravitation / James E. Miller -- President King / Garry Trudeau -- Parlez-vous presidentialese? / Richard Chait and Madelaine Green -- The secret life of Henry Harting / Mark C. Ebersole -- More of President King / Garry Trudeau. |
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Marshyhope State University / John Barth -- The degree / Richard Armour -- President King at commencement / Garry Trudeau -- President Robbins of Benton / Randall Jarrell -- My speech to the graduates / Woody Allen -- Graduationese / Andrew A. Rooney -- President Gorman, distinguished faculty / Henry Martin -- Congratulations, and please have all bills paid / Henry Martin -- Grooving with academe / Russell Baker -- An old grad remembers / Frank Sullivan -- The cultured girl again / Ben King -- The sun goes up, the sun goes down / Richard Cline -- Alumni news / Andrew Ward -- Twenty-fifth reunion / Richard Armour -- Dear classmate: old annual giving time is here again / Henry Martin -- The final final exam / David Newman and Robert Benton -- Holy Moses, will you look at these insipid faces / Garry Trudeau -- Turning back to the campus / Russell Baker -- Improbable epitaph / Don Marquis. |
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College wit and humor.
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Learning and scholarship -- United States -- History -- Humor.
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Scholars -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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College wit and humor. (OCoLC)fst00868253
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Learning and scholarship. (OCoLC)fst00994857
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Scholars. (OCoLC)fst01106878
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Humor. (OCoLC)fst01423696
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| Added Author |
Ebersole, Mark C.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hail to thee, Okoboji U! New York : Fordham University Press, ©1992 (OCoLC)631800153 |
| ISBN |
0823213838 |
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9780823213832 |
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0823213846 (paperback) |
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9780823213849 (paperback) |
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