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...executive committee of the Tennis Association request members to hire boys as "shackers" only at the entrance to Holmes field and at the entrance to Jarvis field. It is believed that if all tennis players will do this much of the annoyance now caused by the host of small boys will be done away with. Tennis players will then know where "shackers" can be had, and will be able to make some choice, while the boys, if they are hired at these places alone, will cease to annoy players on all parts of the fields. If the tennis players...
...there is another consideration beyond the mere annoyance. A great many more fellows than are ever employed spend the day in this way, and their number seems to be on the increase, so there is continually a large number of them who wander around with nothing to do. These purloin anything and everything which may be aid down for the moment; they annoy those playing by getting on the courts; their language is anything but choice, and they make of themselves generally a most unmitigated nuisance...
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Reporter. I am sorry that the muckers should annoy you; but you mistake the object of their curiosity. The reverence felt for men of education in this country is so great that we, even, follow our professors to their homes, to catch glimpses of their benign countenances...
...request of the Reading Room Association we call attention to the recent thefts of its property. A desire to steal something seems to have infected the College and its vicinity. The depredations of outsiders are frequent and annoying enough, and when in addition kleptomania threatens to become prevalent among the students, the prospect is a gloomy one. It is very exasperating to all frequenters of the Reading Room to have its magazines suddenly "spirited" away, and we trust that the students are not numerous who can voluntarily annoy so many of their fellows...