Word: jargoning
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...Freshman Union showed that the number of men entering the dining halls reaches its peak sometime between 6 and 6.30 o'clock, and then declines steadily, until the final rush just before 7 o'clock. An exception was found in the case of Eliot House, known in kitchen jargon as a "late house...
...Everything within the field that might serve the cultured young gentleman socially, is skewered with a witty phrase or two (no copyrights). He emphasizes such abstruse, subjects as Sienese painting just enough so that the student can pose momentarily as an esoteric esthete, and gives just enough of the jargon of functionalism and modern architecture so that one need never feel ill at ease in the most angular of skyscrapers, or the most exclusive of modernistic salons. What is more, not merely does he display all these works of art, but he sells them to his class. The sleepy auditor...
...student studying German will find these films an excellent and agreeable method of absorbing the language as it is spoken, naturally and colloquially, not dismembered into the artificial jargon of class-room instruction. That there is a very real interest in such pictures is satisfyingly shown by the collegiate attendance at the Fine Arts Theatre, where "Der Kongress Tanzt," "Der Grosse Tenor," "Kameradschaft," and "Der Hauptmann vonKoepnick," have played. If these or like films are shown at the Germanic Museum with admission free, a good response may certainly be expected. At the German movies, as at the French, there will...
...extensive vault but divided among what amounts to steel closets in the Federal Reserve bullion room, two closets had been prepared containing exactly $95,550,000 worth of Federal Reserve gold. At 10 a. m. Manhattan time the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street cabled to say in bankers' jargon that she had "earmarked" (with her white tags) $95,550,000 of Bank of England gold, thereby making it the property in London of the Federal Reserve. Promptly the Federal Reserve sent a blue-clad, barrel-chested guard to tie onto the two closet doors tags bearing no words...
...laymen are hardly qualified to deal with those technical matters. In fact, ever since education became a branch of technology, we have been left in the dark about such problems, perforce content to take the word of experts who have attained facility in experimental technique or glibness in professional jargon. Our own School--to quote its catalogue--endeavors to place "the technical training of teachers and school officers under a distinct professional organization parallel to the schools of Law, Medicine, Divinity, and (God save the mark!) Business Administration...