Word: jargoning
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Often it seems that Burns was right as we wonder with him "What's a your jargon of your schools?" Many men even graduate from college without a clear idea of the value of their four years' experience and some, looking back afterwards, have to ask themselves if there was any real meaning to the whole affair after...
...natural consequence is that he must look on his profession in a new light. When he talks football he must include not only a knowledge of the gridiron jargon, but an understanding of the commercial aspect which threatens the game; if it is rowing or track he must remember that in them "There exist opportunities for the promulgation of the international relationship whose recently appreciated significance has utterly changed their character as mere sport and made them important adjuncts to statecraft and diplomacy". His task has expanded beyond the realm of common reporter so that today it is of such...
...University Hall-these are the essentials of a routine Lampoon. These are here, each with a carefully introduced reference to an ouija board, a crystal, or a ghost. Quite in the orthodox fashion, the quality varies. Real humor hides between paragraphs of undiluted nonsense properly tinctured with spiritualistic jargon. Pre-eminence in the Lampoon's true field-good humored mockery of the incidents and figures in our academic daily round-is revealed in drawings and verse which, alas, leave much space for work that is less ably contrived. The old receipt has given the old result, and once again...
...hour of rapid dialogue the heroine remarks to the hero: "Alors, mon ami, causons un peu." They then sit down comfortably and continue it for another half-hour. Words cannot describe the perfect Niagaras of conversation, the torrents of talk. And it is all declaimed in an incredible literary jargon which is like nothing in France, or the world, or anywhere except the boards of the Odeon and the Ambigu. The following is a good enough example...
Readers of that jargon of josh called the Lampoon are herewith notified that the hockey team representing the said slush-sheet will receive its just desert--the knock-out punch,--at the hands of the almighty CRIMSON hockey team (applause!) on the Stadium rink this afternoon at 4.15 o'clock. Despite the funny face now wet with tears, despite the resounding cracks between the bony knees of the irate Ibis, the invincible CRIMSON aggregation will cause the frozen H2O on the Stadium to gleam with the brilliance of their repeated shots into the cage so futilely guarded by the erstwhile...