The author draws on 37 years of teaching and deaning in colleges and universities to offer up what is, in effect, a parody of a college catalog. Armour gives the Armour treatment to such subjects as admissions, campus, roommates, expenses, employment, scholarships, class attendance, grades, physical education, the honor code, faculty advisers, department heads, the curriculum, and commencement speakers. This book is for everybody, but especially for presidents, deans, professors, alumni, students, drop-outs, drop-ins, and people with a sense of humor.

Going Around in Academic Circles: A Low View of Higher Education

Humor & Entertainment

Richard Armour

Humor

McGraw=Hill

Egbert isn't found during the Easter egg hunt, and what's worse, he isn't even missed

The Adventures of Egbert the Easter Egg

McGraw-Hill Book Company

It All Started With Eve

armour gives the funniest description of at past 2000 years of European history. This book contains never-heard-before satires and burlesques that remarkebly outlines history. Drawings are appropriate and unquestionably humorous.

It All Started With Europa: Being an Undigested History of Europe from Prehistoric Man to the Present, Proving That We Remember Best Whatever Is Least Important

Shakespeare presented in a humorous way "the old light having blown a fuse"

Twisted Tales From Shakespeare

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

In this safari into satire and the wilds of the half truth and the truth and a half, Armour romps through Communism from beginning to end, or as near the end as it was at the time of writing. With prize specimens like Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and Khrushchev to operate on, Doctor Armour dissects the Comrades with glee and a sharp pen. There are laughs aplenty as Armour, proving that the pun is mightier than the sword, makes capital of Das Kapital, describes the orgies of the Orgburo, and leads his happy fans through revolutions, counterrevolutions, and counter counterrevolutions. For extra fun, he makes a few uninhibited explorations into the communist world of atheism and free love. Although Richard Armour is best known to the public as a humorist, his remarkably varied career has a serious side as well: a PhD from Harvard, Professor of English at Scripps College and Claremont Graduate School in California, with eighteen books to his credit including a number of scholarly works, some 4,000 published poems, and hundreds of articles and reviews in more than eighty magazines in England and America.

It All Started With Marx: An Irreverent History of Communism

Politics & Government

The Classics Reclassified

Hard Cover; Good; Dust Jacket - Acceptable; McGraw-Hill First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover, Good quarter bound paper with paper covered boards; edge wear and staining to covers. Inked inscription, marked out, on FFEP. DJ is Faair with edge wear, chipping and soiling. Text is tight and clean. "Being a Short History of War and Weaponry From Earliest Times To The Present, Noting the Gratifying Progress Made by Man Since His First Crude, Small-Scale Efforts to Do Away With Those Who Disagree With Him."

It All Started With Stones and Clubs: Being a Short History of War and Weaponry From Earliest Times to the Present

Illustrated by Campbell Grant. His humorous view of the art world.

It All Started With Nudes: An Artful History of Art

Arts & Photography

First edition. "A short history of English literature from the Precursors before swearing to the Pre-Raphaelites and a little after, intended to help students see the thing through, or see through the thing, and ommitting nothing unimportant." Ink inscription on free endpaper. viii , 151 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

English Lit Relit

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