Hail to Thee, Okoboji U!: A Humor Anthology on Higher EducationMark C. Ebersole Fordham University Press, 1992 - Всего страниц: 322 HAIL TO THEE, OKOBOJI U! is a collection of articles, stories, poems, and drawings that pokes fun at the revered institution of higher education. Nothing is sacrosanct; everything is fair game: admissions procedures, intercollegiate sports, student affairs, professors, the curriculum - English, music, art, history, philosophy, science - college and university presidents, commencements, alumni affairs, and fund raising. The anthology includes some of America's most distinguished writers and artists: Woody Allen, Russell Baker, Roy Blount, Jr., Robert Benchley, Jules Feiffer, Fran Lebowitz, Henry Martin, Don Marquis, Mary McCarthy, Ogden Nash, Frank Sullivan, James Thurber, Garry Trudeau, Mark Twain, Peter DeVries, and E. B. White. Contributors also include Richard Armour, Jeremy Bernstein, Max Eastman, John Kenneth Galbraith, Randall Jarrell, Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., John Crowe Ransom, Leo Rosten, Delmore Schwartz, Calvin Trillin, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Though higher education is universally renowned for fostering prodigious learning and wondrous knowledge, HAIL TO THEE, OKOBOJI U! reminds us that this eminent intellectual institution is caught in the meshes of the nonsensical and the ludicrous - the querulousness of faculty meetings, the posturing of college presidents, the banality of commencement speeches, the inanity of arcane scholarship, etc., etc., - and that, therefore, the institution's important personages best not take themselves too seriously. HAIL TO THEE, OKOBOJI U! takes a light-hearted look at the groves of academe and will appeal to administrators and faculty members, graduates and students, and all of us who wonder what really goes on in the ivorytowers. |
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... committee which has no confidence whatsoever in the judgment of the Dean of Admissions . " He hasn't a Ph.D. , " one member of the committee says , his upper lip curling derisively . " And he hasn't published a line , not so much as a ...
... committee which has no confidence whatsoever in the judgment of the Dean of Admissions . " He hasn't a Ph.D. , " one member of the committee says , his upper lip curling derisively . " And he hasn't published a line , not so much as a ...
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... committee , the publications committee , the ad hoc committee , and numerous other committees essential to the proper administration of a college in the seventeenth century . An exhaustive compilation of Newton's work along these lines ...
... committee , the publications committee , the ad hoc committee , and numerous other committees essential to the proper administration of a college in the seventeenth century . An exhaustive compilation of Newton's work along these lines ...
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... committee , and the Dean of Research sent him off with a joking admonition not to come back without a fat contract . The committee hearing was open to the public and was well attended , though it has been suggested that many of the ...
... committee , and the Dean of Research sent him off with a joking admonition not to come back without a fat contract . The committee hearing was open to the public and was well attended , though it has been suggested that many of the ...
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A Reflection | 7 |
The Rich ScholarTeresa Bloomingdale | 14 |
Gather Round CollegiansRoy Blount Jr | 21 |
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