Word: taunting
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...such feeble taunt can be flung at Percy Haughton's kind of football. His advent means that a number of Columbia's young men are going to submit to iron discipline, to a harsh cenobitic rule, for the upbuilding of the corporate over-soul. That is a fine thing in this selfish age. New York Times...
...time, after actually dissipating it, in an endless round of temporary interests is less; there is often a tendency among students, as President Wilson has said, to substitute the side-shows for the main tent. We would not lose "Harvard University," which is the definitive reply to the taunt of "Harvard indifference"; but it must be recognized that too little reading is done by most men. And without doubt a solid foundation of good reading is the best thing one can carry away from his four years at College...
...refusing to withdraw their names from the list of Class Day Officers, as "scrambling for a landing in Cuba" under a "morbid impulse for personal excitement." Perhaps it is becoming for men who have been so fortunate as to receive the best education the country can give, to openly taunt patriotic fellow-countrymen by assuring them that their "loss by yellow fever will mean much less to the country than ours...
...taunt, a word would oft suffice...
...electives for the ensuing academic year causes the student much unsatisfactory deliberation, while the advice which is ordinarily given at this period is even, if possible, of a still more unsatisfying nature. We hear on the one hand the accusation of superficiality and on the other the equally disagreeable taunt of being a specialist. We see one man, confident in the training afforded by the classics and the study of mathematics, elect these studies alone for his college course with the anticipation of emerging from the dust of the college furrow with a brain so beneficently trained and strengthened that...