Word: faction
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Since the professional baseball season terminated, a larger proportion of those who watch football practice are of the type known in baseball lore as "fans." Another unnecessary faction is the younger set of Cambridge and Boston uncertainties popularly known as "muckers." This decidedly extra-University element has certainly developed undesirable proportions. Theoretically there is no objection to orderly visitors who desire to watch our practice, but the unpleasant evidences of the tobacco chewing habit left in the Stadium by the older enthusiasts, and the utter disregard of the younger element for the rights of others, make their presence a nuisance...
...possibility, perhaps probability, of the annual meetings of the Society or special meetings called for whatever purpose, being swayed absolutely and conclusively by a small group of members who attend in a body, imperiling the interests of the overwhelming percentage of unrepresented ticket-holders. Since this chance of "faction rule" comes about from giving every ticket holder of the Society a vote at all meetings and from the actual lethargy or the great body of members, we may say that a representative vote on any question whatever is at present impossible with student control...