Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1886-1886
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The ball of anti-shackism has been started and should be kept rolling till it comes down hard on the heads of the present lords of creation. Shack insolence is something apalling. If netting is not forthcoming, why not organize the present shacks into something of a cash-boy system in charge of the field man? Numbered badges would make the identity of offenders easy, while any system would thin out worthless material and do away with the present insolence of the little fellows. He who prefers his game without shack accompaniment would be in peace while...
...Advocate has made a timely suggestion which we would heartily second. Some means should be taken at once to do away with the present abominable "shack" system. It is as much as one's life is worth to try to escape from the army of small fiends who besiege the expectant tennis-player with cries of "Shack, mister," or "Say, mister, I'll shack yer fur fi' cents." Indeed, it it almost impossible to play on crowded Jarvis without "shacks" to watch the balls. It is admitted by one and all that this system is a very obnoxious...
...nets and players sprout up profusely over Holmes and Jarvis, and started the struggling grass in the yard, it also brought up many weeds and muckers. These coarse plants were everywhere, and whoever passed among them seemed to hear them say, as they turned their foliage up to him, "shack...
...athletics most deserving of encouragement, in that it has for its devotees such a large majority of college men. With the beginning of the tennis season, which will probably open with all its former activity at the close of the recess, must come also the much talked of "shack." Any measures, which the Tennis Association could adopt, to rid the college grounds of this nuisance as far as possible, would be most welcome to the college. Players should be cautious about encouraging the presence of muckers. A little care will accomplish good results...