Title & Author:

The college years.

Edition:

[1st ed.].

Publication:

New York, Hawthorn Books [1958]

Description:

509 pages illustrations 26 cm

Notes:
Gaudeamus Igitur / John Addington Symonds -- Riot at Oxford / Anthony Wood -- How the Student Should Behave / John of Garland -- A Clerke of Oxenford / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Research Projects / Jonathan Swift -- A Plan for the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania / Benjamin Franklin -- Shelley Expelled from Oxford / Thomas Jefferson Hogg -- Harvard College, 1815 / Van Wyck Brooks -- Cadets / Sidney Forman -- Semester at Heidelberg / Lincoln Steffens -- The Chair of Philanthromathematics / O. Henry -- How Good Were th Good Old Times? / Christian Gauss -- Syrian Sophomores / Irwin Edman -- Let's Away With Study / Helen Waddell.
Freshman Adviser / George Boas -- A Student in Economics / George Milburn -- How a Writer Is Made / Max Shulman -- A Lonely Year / Thomas Wolfe -- A Sophomore's Soul / Simeon Strunsky -- Flowers for a Professor's Garden of Verses / Irwin Edman -- Propaganda / J.S. Stevenson -- The Life and Work of Professor Roy Millen / Robert Penn Warren -- G.I. / Sloane Wilson -- By Faculty Action / James Reid Parker -- The President of Pluribus University / Randolph Bourne -- Between Classes / Ogden Nash -- First Year Med / Sinclair Lewis -- Hail Brother and Farewell / Sylvan Karchmer -- What College Did to Me / Robert Benchley.
Blind Date / Virgil Scott -- Murder at Harvard Med / Edmund Person -- The Four Horsemen / Grantland Rice -- According to the Encyclopedia / Anonymous -- Drop in on Me Sometime / Oliver La Farge -- The Famous Oklahoma-Stanford Tug-of-War / Ellis Parker Butler -- The Love Decoy / S.J. Perelman -- House Party / Walter Bernstein -- Lay of the Lone Fish Ball / George Martin Lane -- The Right Sort of Person / J.P. Marquand -- Football Girl / Katharine Brush -- Third Down-A Drama / Robert Benchley -- Fraternity Brothers / Herbert Gold -- Campus Folklore / Richard M. Dorson -- Sock Hunt / Ruth McKenney -- Three Cheers for Kink Stover / Owen Johnson -- What the College Incubator Did to One Modest Lambkin / George Ade -- The Crusty Professor's Song / Morris Bishop -- The Team that Never Was / Bob Cooke -- How to Be a Faculty Wife / Shirley Jackson -- An Extra Large Boat Race / Damon Runyon -- A Perfect Day / Anonymous.
Of Studies / Francis Bacon -- A Complete and Generous Education / John Milton -- A Woman Well Taught / Danel Defoe -- An Apology for Idlers / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Harvard Stamp / Henry Adams -- A Liberal Education: and Where to Find It / T.H. Huxley -- What Is a University? / John Henry Newman -- Education Gets Longer and Longer / Stephen Leacock -- The Student Life / Sir William Osler -- What I learned in Colledge / Finley Peter Dunne -- The Boon of Culture / H.L. Mencken -- Should Our Colleges Educate? / Gerald W. Johnson -- Totemistic Celebrations / Weston La Barre -- Ivy Superiority / Henry Morton Robinson.
Class Reunion / Stephen Vincent Benet -- University Days / James Thurber -- Budding Architect / Frank Lloyd Wright -- The College Town / Henry Seidel Canby -- Some of My Best Friends Are Yale Men / Heywood Brown -- All Sons of Dear Ol' Washin'ton / John Monk Saunders -- I'd Send My Son to Cornell / E.B. White -- On University Snobs / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Are Collegiate Flappers a Flop? / O.O. McIntyre -- Visiting Professor / Edmund Wilson -- Colleges Large and Colleges Small / Alexander Woollcott -- The Coeds Were Real-The Boys Were Shadows / Bernard de Voto -- I Invent My Way Through College / John Muir -- The Convivial Sons of Dartmouth / Gene Markey -- We'd Never Be Quite So Young Any More / F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Dust jacket.

Subject:

American literature.
English literature.
Students United States.
American literature Literary collections.
English literature Literary collections.
Étudiants États-Unis Anthologies.
Littérature américaine Anthologies.
Littérature anglaise Anthologies.
Littérature américaine.
Littérature anglaise.
Students
United States

Form/genre:

humor.
Literary collections
Humor
Dust jackets (Binding)
Humour.

Added entries:

Spectorsky, A. C. (Auguste C.), 1910-1972, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 178911
Call No.: ID PS509.S8 S6; ID:98-B1398
Status: Available