Going Around in Academic Circles a Low View of Higher Education

by Richard Armour

binding tight and square, previous owners name in front, d/j rubbed on front and some rubbing on corners, some yellowing on fore edge

Genres: Humor

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1969

About the author

Richard Armour, a college professor of English who specialized in Chaucer and the English Romantic poets, was best known as a prolific author of light verse and wacky parodies of academic scholarship. He was a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont from 1945 to 1966.

Armour was raised in Pomona, California, where his father owned a drugstore. He graduated from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, then obtained his master's and Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard. He was a Harvard research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum library in London.

Reviews

[Carolyn Page · Rating 5 out of 5]

A hilarious skewering of the college education, written back before the bitter fight over tuition fees really got heated up. It made me chuckle.

[Emily]

A good book to read over breakfast, which is what I do. The chapter on commencement would have saved me $50 and three hours of my life had I but read it instead of attending mine.

[Kaethe · Rating 5 out of 5]

My father picked this up for me on sale somewhere when I was in high school. I loved academic humor then. I still love Armour.