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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... true that the College was faced with an overwhelm- ing deficit and could expect the blossoming of present austerity programs . But the Dean urgently recognized the necessity of change , and praised the school's dedication to age - old ...
... true that the College was faced with an overwhelm- ing deficit and could expect the blossoming of present austerity programs . But the Dean urgently recognized the necessity of change , and praised the school's dedication to age - old ...
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... true that the discussion of the meaning of existentialism has been dying down ? or at any rate is being taken more and more for granted , like cynicism , optimism , surrealism , alcoholism , and practi- cally all other well - known ...
... true that the discussion of the meaning of existentialism has been dying down ? or at any rate is being taken more and more for granted , like cynicism , optimism , surrealism , alcoholism , and practi- cally all other well - known ...
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... TRUE or False test . Read the statements carefully . Then an- swer whether the conclusions are true ( correct ) or false ( incorrect ) . Do not be afraid your answers will reflect on your personal problems . No one will know . These ...
... TRUE or False test . Read the statements carefully . Then an- swer whether the conclusions are true ( correct ) or false ( incorrect ) . Do not be afraid your answers will reflect on your personal problems . No one will know . These ...
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The Rich ScholarTeresa Bloomingdale | 14 |
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