Word: muckerism
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...concert which the Brass Band gave in front of Matthews last night was very successful. The Glee Club did not sing on account of the coldness of the evening. Long before the hour for commencing, the choice seats along the balcony were occupied by the allpervading mucker. The selections were very satisfactorily rendered by the Brass Band, and with a little more experience their playing will not doubt prove a source of great enjoyment to the college in the coming weeks...
...mucker (meeting '89's crew coming up North Avenue) "There's the Harvards!" 2d mucker, "yer lying. I tell ye, they's the Knights of Labor...
...condition when a man cannot leave his hat on a hook in the gymnasium and find it again after exercising. Affairs are just the same at Memorial. Books and umbrellas disappear as rapidly there. Moreover, we cannot lay all the blame on that convenient scape goat, the mucker. There are some men in college who have not the slightest sense of honor. Who are they? They should be discovered and properly punished...
...smothered imprecations over matters which, though to the freshman eye enormous evils, have become perfectly adapted to the Harvard condition of calm, admiring and independent indifference. It is needless to say that we refer, not to the pump, it is true, nor to that summer boarder, the mucker, who like the poor, is always with us, but to the "state of the yard." Coolness and audacity are necessary to approach this subject, but necessity is even more powerful than imprudence. One of the notably weak spots of the yard is that beautiful, sloping, inclined, hollowedout, well watered and ever...
...hoped that the measures taken at the last yard concert, to keep the mucker element at a proper distance, are but the beginnings of an action still more stringent and effective. A little energy and firmness, would very soon teach the objectionable young mucker that his place is not in the yard, and his task not to make himself as disagreeable, and everybody else as uncomfortable, as possible. Perhaps a good strong policeman, with a stronger "billy," would be as effective as anything else. But a policeman could not attain complete success, if he had not the co-operation...