Word: pest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this country. In a vain search after reputation as a brilliant reporter, the unscrupulous newspaper man hunts around for exciting news. When none can be found, an inaugriative brain has been known to concoct falsehoods and publish them with brazen effrontery. Colleges especially are exposed to this newspaper pest. The doings of students are always painted in the loudest tints and an indiscretion is magnified into a crime...
...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...
...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, at least by the students themselves, when the omnipresent pest makes itself at home upon our tennis courts and deliberately engages in an offensive scrub game of ball. The college grounds at all hours of the day are the play-ground of youths who find no better enjoyment than in foul language and in playing hockey, polo they call...
Professor H. B. Richardson of Amherst College wants the selectmen to pay him $110 for damage for allowing the student who had the varioloid last winter to remain in his house instead of taking him to a pest-house, and they refuse...
Great alarm is felt in Chicago over the increasing prevalence of small-pox in that city, and the pest houses are filled. Twenty new cases are reported at Pittsburg...