Word: muckeritis
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...Friday, thieves stole clothes which had been left by washerwomen at the door of students' rooms in Thayer; it is also reported that one room was entered and a gold watch taken. One of the thieves, a Cambridge "mucker," has been captured, and part of the property recovered...
...most trying experiences of Harvard student life is the sensation of daily contact with a source of annoyance which time can never dull and which increases in its power of discomfort as time goes on. The troubles arising from the increasing advent of the "mucker" element have never assumed such proportions as at the present. Every form of this much agitated question has been discussed again and again. And as often the college authorities have refused to take any notice of the matter. But it is at last time that some action should be taken, if not by the faclty...
...this latter phase of the mucker nuisance, their continual presence upon the fields, which the manager of the nine will attempt to abate. He proposes to hire a special police officer to look after the grounds, and in case the muckers do not keep away, to have a few of them arrested each day and prosecuted to the full extent of the law, for trespassing on private property...
...crease on Jarvis is not a particularly good one, and the club is cramped by the small ground it is compelled to occupy, it being a very poor incentive to good batting to have tennis nets before one, and seats or picket fences at each side. And the mucker who "shacks" earns every cent he gets, by scrambling over the afore-named obstacles on an average of once a minute, to collect the balls which have been driven there...
...long 100-yard stretch of the track on Holmes field has been overflowed and frozen. The Cambridge mucker utilizes the narrow stretch of ice as a skating rink...