Word: jeering
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...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...