Word: poco
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...that effect, or a poster on the bulletin boards, or a folder in his morning paper. There can be no discrimination as to what goes through the mail; if there were, who would not exercise his rights to have all advertisements and unpaid bills, and Brine blotters and poco cards excluded from his room? We believe that a sober, second thought will convince the gentleman that if tutors have the right to exist, and if they have a right to use the United States mail, or the columns of a daily paper, it matters little how they advertise themselves...
Still another form of advertisement, remains to be mentioned,-and this is alive and walks up and down the yard and frequents the walks to Sever and Memorial. Freshmen wonder who he is. Upper classmen see in him the "poco" whose tribe is famous in song. He is at his advertising, and this is his way of doing it,-perhaps because he thinks this the most effective way of showing how second-hand clothes may be made to look...
...suppress a sigh of regret for one of the changes which was brought about last summer during the absence of the students in what might be called one of the historic landmarks of old student life at Harvard. Everybody is familiar with the tender and classic ditty : "A poco lived on Brighton street." Every student of this as well as of former days has been made familiar with the classic thoroughfare celebrated in these lines. Therefore no student returning to college this fall we presume has failed to notice the change made by the wise and weighty legislators of this...
...Another "poco" has invaded the college yard. He adopts the very pleasant method of accosting students as they leave the recitation halls...
...life of the poco is indeed a trying one. Beset with arduous cares, compelled at all times to be at his post in rainy or in stormy weather, forced to stoop to petty barter and ignoble shifts. what wonder that his mind assumes a stern and misanthropic cast and that soon...