Word: leacockism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would think of taking Stephen Leacock seriously, that is, outside the field-of political economy. Yet, in his latest contribution to Vanity Fair a new seriousness peeps through his levity. He is concerned for the colleges. He wonders why they are being literally overrun with hungry-eyed students wanting to know how to make a living...
Selections from Masefield, Kipling, Dickens and Leacock were read by Associate Professor Charles Townsend Copeland 82 in the dining room of the Union last night in his annual Christmas reading. Four hundred members of the University filled an the seats provided and overflowed until they clogged the aisles...
...GARDEN OF FOLLY-Stephen Leacock-Dodd Mead ($2.00). Stephen Leacock, Harold Lloyd of Letters, prefaces this volume with a quotation from Confucius-or TutankhAmen : "This poor old world works hard and gets no richer; worries much and gets no happier. It casts off old errors to take on new ones; laughs over ancient superstitions and shivers over modern ones. It is at best but a Garden of Follies, whose chattering gardeners move a moment among the flowers, waiting for the sunset...
Some of the beds which Prof. Leacock weeds are those wherein spring up 'the tares of Big Business Bunkum, Correspondence-School Quackery and kindred varieties of contemporary sophistry. He then invades the field of Animal Psychology. The subject of his observations, carried on under enormous difficulties, is that elusive but familiar animareptile, the Hoopoo. The results are: "1) When the Hoopoo is unable to step over anything, she walks around it. 2) The Hoopoo will drink water when she has to, but she will drink champagne whether she has to or not. 3) The religious belief of the Hoopoo...
Some of the beds which Prof. Leacock weeds...