Word: muckerism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Talking to your opponents, if it falls short of being abusive or insulting, is not prohibited by the rules, partly because it ought not to be necessary and partly because no rules can make a gentleman out of a 'mucker.' No good sportsman is ever guilty of cheap talk to his opponents...
...college football teams. This consists of a series of suggestions to players, and is not intended to be enforced by officials, being supplementary to the existing official rules. The spirit of the code is expressed in a quotation from it: ". . . no rules can make a gentleman out of a 'mucker...
...book may be found vivid sketches and descriptions of members of the faculty and such familiar characters as John the Yard Cop, the scrambling Cambridge mucker, and the vacillating section-man. The pictures are very well drawn, and show in mild caricature the funny side of many of the well-known University characters. The sketches are on the right-hand pages, while on the left appear humorously interesting remarks about the subject of each picture. The various best known and best liked faculty members are shown in what the author judges typical moods...
...persist in demonstrating their throwing ability may do irreparable damage to Memorial Hall and Harvard University by injuring or destroying oil paintings that cannot be replaced. Cheering and singing during the dinner hour are desirable forms of expressing superabundant enthusiasm, but the throwing of foodstuffs smacks more of the mucker than the student. So this evening the enthusiasm, which we realize is at the explosive point near the end of the football season, should find expression in vocal, not physical exercise...
...Miss Ehrlich, proved a very interesting flashlight of the lowly in their more exalted moods. The undergraduate of a few years ago clung to evening clothes when he dipped into make-believe. The mucker by the subway's brim, a stupid mucker was to him. Then Mr. Sheldon proved that the mucker might be drama, and after him--the deluge. The action of "Kid" passes in a subway station represented by an admirable back drop new in the club's repertoire. The lines of this human little piece are not always successful, the lingo of the streets is dragged...