Hail to thee, Okoboji U! : a humor anthology on higher education
"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 ivory towers."--BOOK JACKET
humor
xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780823213832, 9780823213849, 0823213838, 0823213846
25964614
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. 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. 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. 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