Word: muckerism
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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...
...think, within the province of the managers of the foot-ball club to take some steps towards abating what we may call the "mucker" nuisance on Holmes field. The presence of these little gamins of the street, at all times and upon all occasions, is becoming decidedly disagreeable. The noise and confusion that they always create, in addition to a growing spirit of lawlessness and rowdyism on their part, furnishes sufficient reason for excluding them entirely from the college grounds. Next spring, perhaps, when we have an enclosed field for athletics, this nuisance will be done away with...
...following elegant sentiment is from the Yale Courant: "It is a doubtful question whether it is preferable to practice with professional nines rather than with 'mucker' nines from the out-skirts of large cities...
Towards that man who's a 'mucker,' a 'thing,' and a 'fiend...
...forget that there is a mischievous and malicious spirit present in every community. Therefore we can consistently ask if the College acts wisely in not protecting the Memorial Hall windows by a wire screen of some sort? As they now stand, a stone from the hand of a "Port Mucker," or from that of an inebriated Freshman, might cause several hundred dollars' damage, and put the University to great inconvenience as well, while the offender would be in little danger of detection...