Word: sneers
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...opponents, I wish to restate the three main contentions of the negative. Football creates a clean and wholesome spirit around which the student body can rally. In the second place it creates individual efficiency. At out final point, that football moulds character, our opponents have chosen to sneer, but they cannot present sound arguments which can meet this statement...
...have published in our last two issues two communications, one from a graduate and one from an undergraduate, both of which complain of the students' passive submission to the Faculty on the question of football. The graduate takes no pains to conceal his sneer at the "budding humility" and "seemly modesty" which the Harvard man is so unexpectedly developing. Evidently anything of the sort is foreign to his own nature, or he would not have let his momentary anger find such hasty expression. There is something very childish in his obvious inability to appreciate the feeling which led to Captain...
...spirit of simplicity, love of duty, and confidence in God, fast dying out among us? We sometimes congratulate ourselves that we live in better times than the Puritans, and we think that their rugged dutiful lives were much harder than was necessary. We live in luxury, sometimes we sneer at duty, and unfortunately there is not among us a great deal of simple and strong faith in God Many social evils of today we can trace to the lives of luxury led by some and to the carelessness of duty in others. If we are inclined to smile...
...their smoke by the less ingenious outlet of door and window. In cordwainer (still the legal designation of shoemaker) we are pointed to the fact that the people of Cordova made the best leather-a fame to which Morocco succeeded-hence Cordovannier, cordonnier, cordwainer. Cant perpetuates a sneer against the monks who did no work but singing-cantabant, Hocus-pocus again satirizes their ignorance, and also contains a sly Protestant laugh at the Catholic mystery of transubstantiation-hoc est corpus. That wigs were originally a French fashion is plain enough in the word itself-first corrupted from perruque to periwig...
...accuracy of the editor's figures suggests that they were obtained from some tabulated statement, like that in the Crimson of February 9, 1893, where the expenses of the Harvard nine were itemized in full; but that the editor preferred to suppress them, and to indulge in his sneer with full knowledge that it was unwarranted and malicious...