Old Satire about Grad School?
June 9, 2011 1:23 PM Subscribe
I'm trying to locate an old satirical letter about characters in a faculty department. I think the letter was late 1800s or early 1900s, older than I expected given the sort of contemporary feel of the satire.
I think the work may have been referenced in Hitchen's Letter to a Young Contrarian, or the author may have been more famous for some other work (Jonathan Swift? Du Maurier? Or maybe a German philosopher?). I think I read a bit of the piece on Project Gutenberg, to give you a date estimate.
It seems like he was mocking the department of a leading institution, like Harvard, Yale, or Oxford, but I can't be certain.
I think the work may have been referenced in Hitchen's Letter to a Young Contrarian, or the author may have been more famous for some other work (Jonathan Swift? Du Maurier? Or maybe a German philosopher?). I think I read a bit of the piece on Project Gutenberg, to give you a date estimate.
It seems like he was mocking the department of a leading institution, like Harvard, Yale, or Oxford, but I can't be certain.
Seconding greycap.
posted by thomas j wise at 2:09 PM on June 9, 2011
posted by thomas j wise at 2:09 PM on June 9, 2011
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