Word: jeer
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This young man I refer to does not drink, at least in saloons, but does he do anything to close them? He does not jeer at religion, but does he do anything to make the world more religious? Is he doing or planning anything to make the lives of his parents brighter and happier, or is he making the most of opportunities to get an education such that later he may do his part towards keeping his state and country what they have been in the past...
...making opinion, we deny its truth in the first place. There are comparatively few men in college who read the editorials-not because they are not worth reading, but because it is a "bore" to do so. Besides it is the fashion here at Harvard to mock and jeer and rail at the college papers. The Advocate must know that by experience. But we claim that those who do read our editorials are influenced by them, as we can prove by the communications which we receive daily...
...rich as Croesus, - and there's Helen Jeer...
...asked me how we liked the fellows here. Generally speaking, there is very little love lost between us. (There are one or two brilliant exceptions, of course, but I reserve my accounts of them till Christmas vacation.) They take extraordinary pains to jeer at us and snub us at every opportunity. They fill their paper - "The Harvardiana" - with slurs and poor jokes on ours. But I think "The Tea-Table and University News-Letter" can hold its own with their wretched periodical. There's a dear little Freshman across the entry who keeps me in tobacco and matches...