Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much mumbo jumbo is heard about the important function of these institutions of higher learning in correlating and organizing the work in some of the more anarchic courses, or in helping the Freshman to find his footing in Harvard, or in this of that worthy purpose. Presumably some help is given, but few have the face to deny that the cash payment is usually made to facilitate the complete neglect of work (more extra-curricular activity, if you will) and not to direct the poor lost sheep to the proper shelf of the Widener reading room...
This mumbo jumbo confusion of classics and culture is just the sort of thing which Harvard's bewhiskered sages like to pin on poor, confused President Hutchins out at Chicago. It is too bad we have to look at it here. They might give the non-Latinists diplomas written in English, or something like that...
...both games Harvard had the better of the play, but in each case the winning break failed to materialize. Twice kicks by Jim Wood failed by inches, while the Yardlings going with the wind in the second period were all over the Jumbo cage without being able to get the ball...
...Casanovas. A kindly teacher of English who considers Browning sonnets more important than Browning machine guns is tormented by the boys until he loses his job, to the detriment of his love life. Bright Honor points out that education at Newtown is smothered under the pressure of military mumbo-jumbo, a fact of no importance to parents who send their boys there to get rid of them, or because they will not eat their spinach...
...originally appeared on the Jumbo bulletin board, the petition reads...