Why is this a satire? Ohio State was a land grant university and, therefore, two years of military drill was compulsory. We drilled with old Springfield rifles and studied the tactics of the Civil War, even though the World War was going on at the time. At 11 o'clock each morning thousands of freshmen and sophomores used to deploy over the campus, moodily creeping up on the chemistry building. It was good training for the kind of warfare that was waged at Shiloh, but it had no connection with what was going on in Europe. Some people used to think there was German money behind it, but they didn't dare say so, or they would have been thrown in jail as German spies. It was a period of muddy thought and marked, I believe, the decline of higher education in the Middle East. The passage is a good example of what type of writing? a. humor b. satire (answer) c. sardonic d. situational irony e. historical fiction satire=literary ridicule done with HUMOR but where is the humor in the passage?I need help.Thank you!Correction: It must be Middle West, not Middle East, in the last sentence.should*