"Bake 'em away, toys"

Marrou's wrap up on Hellenistic education offers some sweeping statements about the final state of higher education in the Hellenistic world. However, he's careful to back these statements up with examples, and to buttress the whole thing with the thesis that said final state was always nascent in the Hellenistic culture and system.

But then he goes and does something that marks him as a product of his times. Something that makes it clear that his work is a bit dated. A thing that suggests that his work is valuable for its philosophic view, but perhaps could use some updating on the finer points.

On page 294 he uses the word (the phrase?) "high jinks."

On seeing this word in print, I was immediately reminded of Chief Wiggum's conversation with Eddie from the Simpsons episode that sees Bart and Milhouse getting a slap on the wrist for breaking into Flanders' house and ruining his Beatles memorabilia collection:

"Chief Wiggum: '...Hehe. Hijinks. Funny word. Three dotted letters in a row.'Eddie: 'Is it hyphenated?'Chief Wiggum: 'It used to be. Back in the bad old days. Of course every generation hyphenates the way it wants to.'" (S14E16 - "Bart of War")

It's a curious thing the way that language changes, even if the systems that it describes essentially remain the same.