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...have had occasion before to call attention to the "rough" element which appears in the college yard night and day, and it is certainly time that measures were taken to correct this nuisance. The guilty parties are mostly confined to the genus "mucker" who have a most wonderful and varied command of the vocal organs. Indeed some of the sounds that issue forth from the lips of these specimens are astounding and remind one of a large and well assorted circus menagerie or of a steam calliope. It is exceedingly unpleasant when a man is grinding for examinations or puzzling...
...Boston Post wayside writer has the following to say in regard to a familiar character: "While penning this paragraph, in relation to the genus tramps and beggars, I had a call from the king tramp of this country, Gen. Daniel Pratt, who has travelled so extensively through Uncle Sam's domains that he has fairly earned the soubriquet of 'Great American Traveller.' I well remember my first acquaintance with the general. It was in my freshman year at college, more years back than a man who fancies that life is slipping away from him can with complacency think of. Daniel...
Numbers of the genus "mucker" were forced to vacate the top of the Law School, where they had roosted to see the Harvard-Princeton game last Saturday. The Law School will be a very convenient location for spectators when it is finished...
Prof. Asa Gray, the renowned botanist, celebrated his seventieth birthday with his mental and physical powers in full vigor. The professor, in looking over an old herbarium, found a specimen of the fruit of a plant of which nothing was known. From this fruit he founded a genus, described and classified the unseen flower, and when, many years after, the plant was rediscovered in the mountains of North Carolina, the flower was found to answer his description in almost every particular. - [Scholastic...
Prof. of philosophy - "What is a species of a species is a species of the genus of that species...