Word: muckerism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mucker" nuisance has made itself felt early in the term. The blessing of such popular newspapers as the Boston morning dailies must be appreciated by every one; but it is most unfortunate that this blessing is accompanied by that great evil, the silver-tongued Cambridge "mucker." Is there no way in which these vendors may be prevented from crying their wares in the college yard, at least on the steps of the chapel. It has been said that there is none, but if there was a general understanding that papers should not be brought within a stone's throw...
...students off Jarvis Field. If the reign of the Cambridge roughs has begun, I congratulate myself that this is my last year at college. One recalls with regret the days when the policing of the yard was under the supervision of the class of '85, when although the mucker was not excluded from the yard, rough element was suppressed and kept quiet...
...First mucker on wall - "What crew came in first?" Second mucker - "De '87' s." First mucker - "Well where's de Harvard...
...attention of the base-ball management should be called to the base-ball games which daily take place on Holmes and Jarvis Fields between various "amateur mucker" nines. Every afternoon a game is started on Jarvis, and as a means of encouragement, each nine is supported by a considerable number of friends. By running and tearing around the field as they do, the diamond is cut up in such a manner as to make the ground too rough and irregular for any other nines but ones like theirs to enjoy a game. It is an exceedingly disagreeable and difficult task...
...harassing one to men in the vicinity who are worn out by their grinding for the examinations. I refer to the workmen picking away at the brick work of Holden Chapel. The west fronts of Stoughton and Hollis are exposed to this continuous sound, beside which lawn mowers and mucker choruses are music. Cannot this work be postponed a few weeks, until men have left college? The building would be none the worse, and the students in the vicinity would be greatly accommodated...