Word: mugwumps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...MUGWUMP...
...Mugwump," "boycott," and "bull-dose" will be legitimate parts of the language when they are inserted in the new dictionaries, which, if report is true, will receive the words as regular...
...History 25. On rushing from the empty rooms of other departments of study, the sophomore of today is only by cunning and force enabled to wedge himself into a window in History 30. The explanation of this condition of affairs is very evident. The last campaign explains it. The mugwump element in education is abroad, and it means to stay abroad until Greek 99 has learned its place and Latin 40 will acknowledge its existence. The cry for utility is slowly enlarging into something more than the call of an infant "crying for light." And it purposes to have...
...must remember that this year in many respects, stands above and phenomenal among the monotonous years of college history. It is too true, though, that our students have been put to great annoyance by the "popular demonstrations" with which we have been almost nightly favored. The parades of the "Mugwump Zouaves," and kindred ephemeral armies, imposing though they undoubtedly were, became decidedly boresome as the season wore on. It seemed as if their martial music, like that of the traditional British drum, would roll on unceasingly. But this noisy nuisance, thankfully let it be said, is now over, and only...
...groom and containing the lord chancellor and several other "legal lights" as a transparency announced. This festive turnout was guarded by several undergraduate spearmen and was followed by the band, lighted by more students, after which the club marched in column of fours. Behind the law men was a mugwump four-in-band on which were several Harvard men. This headed the Bohemian Brigade, of which notice was made in earlier issues of the week. A band of jolly looking vagrants, all of whom were labeled "Mugwump," to make sure that no one should mistake them, brought up the rear...