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. Page vii 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 Page viii 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