Word: jargoning
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Like any other rarified circle of existence, Harvard music has its own jargon and names to be dropped: HRO, HGC, HRMC, Sanders, Paine, Holmes, and HG&SP, to name...
Proliferating jargon is a good indication of the bewildering variety of musical organizations, clubs, societies, performing groups, concert series, and auditoria that make up the Harvard musical world. As any musically inclined freshman will tell you, the newcomer to Cambridge is faced with a wide variety of opportunities to express himself in music and, especially at certain times of the year (early December and May) a plethora of musical events to attend...
...spectacular, the "Unwed Mother" game by Henry Beard and Mark Stiumpf, takes some excusable cracks at Pill-wheels and has the added virtue of being slightly dirty. The list of thumb-nail sketches for parlor games at the start of the issue makes good fun of Parker Bros. jargon and is an amusing reductio ad absurdum of games in general. After the third or fourth game-article, the technique of reducing a real-life problem to playing-board size starts to wear a little thin, but the pieces are worth skimming for the occasional laugh...
...Chief of the University Police, symbolizes the force's two sides. For 27 years, he was an F.B.I. agent and a supervisor of criminal investigation in the Boston Region. Tall and rugged, he can rattle off the where's, who's, and how's of gangland murders in a jargon that makes Eliot Nesse sound like Little Joe Cartwright...
...formidable problems. Ulysses is one of the most complex literary compositions of modern times: a short story that exploded into a veritable summa of 30 centuries of Western culture. Most of the leading European languages, ancient and modern, and 18 different literary modes are merged in the amazing Joycean jargon-all of them so repetitively punctuated with wordplays that the book resembles a giant pun cushion...