Word: bantering
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...yesterday when the Freshmen were prevented from having their group photograph taken because they did not respond with the desired generosity to the Seniors' appeal. So long as this contribution to the Seniors' picnic was taken as a sort of joke and was made the occasion for a little banter and levity, no one could object much, though some of us have though the custom an innovation in very questionable taste...
...incidental sketch of the Wentworth House, at New Castle, Maine, which is very charming. Miss Agnes Repplier, in an amusing and thoughtful paper, called "Pleasure: A Heresy," appeals not for more cultivation in life, but for a recognized habit of enjoyment. The article is full of good-natured banter at the expense of the self-consciously cultivated persons, who demand from both literature and art, not pleasure, but some serious moral purpose. A review of Mr. Aldrich's new volume of poetry, of one or two French novels, and of Mr. Sargent's Silva of North America, with the usual...
...entering college the Freshman was subjected to hazing of a kind which, although it is dying out here at Harvard, is still practised in many other colleges. At first badgered to try his mettle, the Freshman, if very fresh, was subjected to mere vulgar banter; but if he showed any quickness at repartee, he was tried by all the resources of student wit, and finally subjected to the pump...