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...students to support themselves honestly while studying, some even in Vienna, working as night street-sweepers. Nothing derogatory can be said of this class, for there is only a matter of choice between street-sweeping and waiting on hotel tables. Still, on the other hand there is a great swarm of men imbued with false ideas of their own powers, driven on by vanity, and often by parental pride, who come to the universities expecting an easy living and final renown in some one of the professions...
...lands of Harvard. No portion of the college grounds is free from the obnoxious presence of the small rascals, whom the collegian has dubbed with the sobriquet, muckers. They invade the dignified yard to the very steps of the dormitories, play tag upon the steps of the gymnasium and swarm in crowds over the track and diamond of the athletic fields. Nor are all of these muckers of tender age, some of them have attained to years of discretion, but are not discreet enough to mind their own business even yet. They, as well as their smaller brethren, have become...
...swarm of bees which alighted on one of the trees at the south end of the yard attracted considerable attention yesterday afternoon...
...would urge upon the Tennis Association the advisability of reforming the present system of "shacking." The folly of allowing things to continue as at present is obvious. A swarm of impertinent small boys daily infests Holmes' field, and besieges any one wishing to play with their importunate cries as long as he is on the ground. This has always been a source of annoyance, and has now grown to be a nuisance which ought to be stopped...
...Swarm'd thro' the court like August flies, till prest