Word: newsboys
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...newsboys who frequent the outskirts of Memorial Hall are becoming as great a nuisance as their friends and allies, the shacks. In fact, the newsboy plague is further reaching than the shack pest, for a shack will not attack a man who does not carry a racket, whereas the newsboys pursue everybody they see. Even when a victim waves in the air his already purchased paper, the newsboy still persists. If the number of boys was reduced to three or four, and these remained at the hall, just as many papers would be sold, and the walk to breakfast...
First, the domain of the newsboy is restricted to an anteroom at Memorial. Next the Senior Class abolish the holy office of chaplain. Now there are whispers that the exercises at the tree on Class Day are a boyish high-school sort of performance, not untainted with rowdyism, and there are students ready to assert that an exercise which shows us up more in the light of clowns than gentlemen might better be dispensed with...