Word: mugwumps
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...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...
...feel called upon by his personal feelings to desert his fellow-students and refuse to obey the expressed will of the majority. The appearance of the Harvard students in the presidential parade is looked upon as the feature of the campaign, in the way of a torchlight display. Whether, mugwump, stalwart, or third-party man, the Harvard student is at present preeminently a Harvard student and is when a representation from Harvard demanded every local or partisan prejudice should cease and the call be responded to unanimously by those who bear the title of Harvard students...