Word: rowdyism
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...graduates might know where their classmates rallied. These little gatherings have always been marked by a spirit of lively cordiality, which might be expected of college classmates coming together after years of separation to renew their friendships and recall the scenes and associations of their youth. There was no rowdyism or gross misconduct at these gatherings, and the effect of the punch has rarely been made manifest, except now and then, in the case of some newly-made Bachelor of Arts, who in that youthful exuberance incident to his acquiring a sheepskin, lost control of his appetite and his legs...
...colleges. The tu-quoque argument will not relieve Americans from any of the blame for the evils of hazing, but it certainly can tend to reduce the magnitude of our offences in the eyes of a stern and unsympathizing public to listen to such accounts as this of the rowdyism of English and Scotch students. Pelting professors with peas and rushing them through a melee is certainly not characteristic of American students, neither is uproarious applause of a prayer nor interrupting academical ceremonies with cat-calls and mock psalm tunes. The American student does not wish to be pharisaical...
...Yale men to act like gentlemen if they cannot do so of their own accord. As Yale is the only exponent and champion of college "muckerism," and as every college in New England and the vicinity has had occasion to suffer, and has loudly exclaimed against Yale's rowdyism and cowardly insolence, it would be an easy matter to institute united action on the part of all the colleges against a continuance of Yaleism...
...towards abating what we may call the "mucker" nuisance on Holmes field. The presence of these little gamins of the street, at all times and upon all occasions, is becoming decidedly disagreeable. The noise and confusion that they always create, in addition to a growing spirit of lawlessness and rowdyism on their part, furnishes sufficient reason for excluding them entirely from the college grounds. Next spring, perhaps, when we have an enclosed field for athletics, this nuisance will be done away with, but for the present some measures should be taken to prevent its continuance. If the Cambridge police were...
...Woman's Journal thinks that in "the present epidemic of college rowdyism," only the co-educational institutions escape the contagion. Co-education did not save Cornell...