Hail to Thee Okoboji U!: A Humor Anthology on Higher Education

622 Pages·1992·4.92 MB·English

by  Mark Ebersole

Hail to Thee, Okoboji U! : A Humor
title:
Anthology On Higher Education
author: Ebersole, Mark C.
publisher: Fordham University Press
isbn10 | asin: 0823213846
print isbn13: 9780823213849
ebook isbn13: 9780585125497
language: English
College wit and humor, Learning and
scholarship--United States--History--
subject
Humor, Scholars--United States--
Anecdotes.
publication date: 1992
lcc: PN6231.C6H35 1992eb
ddc: 817.008/355
College wit and humor, Learning and
scholarship--United States--History--
subject:
Humor, Scholars--United States--
Anecdotes.
Page iii
A Humor Anthology on Higher Education
Hail to Thee, Okoboji U!
Selected and Edited by
Mark C. Ebersole
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York
Page iv
Copyright © 1992 by Fordham University
All rights reserved
LC 92-17673
ISBN 0 -8232 -1383-8 (hardcover)
ISBN 0-8232-1384-6 (paperback)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hail to thee, Okoboji U!: a humor anthology on higher education
/ edited by Mark C. Ebersole.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8232-1383-8 (hc.) ISBN 0-8232-1384-6 (pbk.)
1. College wit and humor. 2. Learning and scholarshipUnited
StatesHistoryHumor. 3. ScholarsUnited StatesAnecdotes.
I Ebersole, Mark C.
PN6231 C6H35 1992
817.008'355dc20 92-17673
CIP
Printed in the United States of America
Copyright acknowledgments begin on page 317
Page v
This anthology is dedicated to our sons:
Stephen,
who bore suffering with courage and spirit
Philip,
who sustained his brother with sensitivity and compassion,
and to the sense of humor both maintained
throughout the ordeal.
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Contents
Introduction xi
A Short History of Higher Education 1
Richard Armour
Solemnity, Gloom and the Academic Style: A Reflection 7
John Kenneth Galbraith
How to Get In 10
Richard Armour
The Rich Scholar 14
Teresa Bloomingdale
Off to College 18
Teresa Bloomingdale
Gather Round, Collegians 21
Roy Blount, Jr.
I'm intelligent and get nowhere 25
Jules Feiffer
Hail to Thee, Okoboji! 26
Newsweek
Wherefore Art Thou Nittany? 27
Calvin Trillin
University Days 29
James Thurber
Letters 34
Teresa Bloomingdale
Graffiti on a Washroom 38
Mrs. Gene Arthur
She's all I know about Bryn Mawr 38
James Thurber
A Taste of Princeton 39
Max Eastman
Hell Only Breaks Loose Once 41
James Thurber
Sexual Harassment at Harvard: Three Letters 45
John Kenneth Galbraith
The Sage's Progress 47
Samuel Pickering, Jr.
The Mind of Professor Primrose 50
Ogden Nash
The Posthumous Reputation of Professor Crump 51
David M. Rein
It's publish or perish 56
Mischa Richter
I know, but all promises are off 57
William Hamilton
The Faculty Meeting 57
Jeremy Bernstein
Faculties at Large 63
John R. Clark
Professor Pnin 72
Vladimir Nabokov
The Rivercliff Golf Killings 76
Don Marquis
Two Limericks 84
Bennett Cerf
Interview of Professor Cavendish 85
Garry Trudeau
Professor Tattersall 86
Peter De Vries
Report on the Barnhouse Effect 93
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Soby 105
Wright Morris

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The Curriculum 107
Richard Armour
Memo from Osiris 112
Gary Jay Williams
Catalog of Courses: Aquarius U. Non Campus Mentis 114
John D. Kirwan
Easy Road to Culture, Sort of 117
Eric Larrabee
Handy-Dandy Plan to Save Our Colleges 122
Leo Rosten
Jocelyn College 128
Mary McCarthy
Reforming Yale 133
Mark Twain
The Groves of Academe: Deep, Deep Words 135
Willard P. Espy
Students of the class of '58 142
Jules Feiffer
Survey of Literature 143
John Crowe Ransom
Shakespeare Explained 144