How many author-professors does it take to screw up a piquant literary tradition? Several generations, it seems. Seventy years ago, in March 1934, a national magazine titled College Humor -- yes, a ...

Last fall, at the start of their junior year, Teagan Nam experienced a scary situation at school. There was an anonymous tip that a student at Northwood High School in Silver Spring, Md., had brought ...

Researchers have found that students appreciate when instructors tell jokes in science class, but that female and male students differ in what topics they find funny or offensive. There's nothing like ...

Subject: Never run with nitroglycerin or a bucket of camel snot. Well, you could, but it would be your funeral. But seriously, using humorous subject lines just might be a way to engage students being ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. For our session on Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, I was somehow possessed to supplement ...