wherein he ridiculed that pseudo-scholarship which gloried in a “funeral parade of yawn-enforcing facts, the pseudo-light it threw upon non problems

You’re right, because nobody poops. This actually has nothing to do with Lucky Jim, which, surely you recall, directs its greatest acrimony at medievalists. Which just shows what a nitwit Amis was even in his best novel.

Now here’s a panel where I’m sure people got their money’s worth.

Is your point that if NYU students were paying less for tuition then they’d be justified in discussing public toilets? Otherwise I don’t see the connection between the first half of your piece and the second.