Word: jam
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...over the meaning of this entry will grow until it includes in one vast growl of argument all the people from the hereditary janitors down to the sovereigns of the wrench and the nut. When it reaches the last named arbiters of human progress, the machinery, being neglected, will jam, whereupon the lights will go out. The growl of argument will then change to one great roar of anger...
...Children" are often printed for the amusement of their elders. Any parent may earn a dollar by submitting to the editor of this column a "cute" remark which his, or her, off-spring has perpetrated. One infantile query is the following: "Mother, if there are seven hundred jars of jam in the house, why can't I have one of them"? A pertinent question. The undergraduate, in search of the sweets of knowledge, might ask the same: "If there are a million and a half books in the Widener Library, why can't I have the one I want...
...jam which the undergraduate wants is inexpensive and easily procured. It has not the rare qualities attributed to the Chinese "bird's nest song", but to the average mortal as a steady diet it is infinitely more attractive...
...evidence points in the same direction, is amiss to suggest that the "Coop" take a few more risks in the stocking of their shelves with textbooks in general demand? Then the "plain citizen" whose specialty is not speed would cease to worry about missing out; the four deep, human jam at the counter would be less clamorous; and the lady at the cash register might pass a peaceful...
...having no longer the respect of the shades to hold us down, to what lengths of frivolity might not the present generation be tempted to go? If our fathers did thus and so, why not we? It is unwise to let the son know that the parent once stole jam...