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...Texas girl, plump and pretty, with a natural antipathy to books and other instruments of cultivation, and a predilection for slang and amorous raillery (a girl whose type is familiar to many Harvard men) -and lastly, "a short, thickset young man with the countenance of a brakeman," of muckers, muckerish. Of these delineations, the first is the best, the second having certain touches of vulgarity which are not pleasing. Regarded as a story, this effort of Mr. Cohen's lacks effect in its conclusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Monthly. | 6/9/1891 | See Source »

...Columbia Spectator complains of the "muckerish" treatment the Columbia nine received at the University of Pennsylvania...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor | 5/21/1888 | See Source »

...lacrosse twelve are played against local teams of no great reputation or interest to the college at large. Frequently, indeed, games have been played on Jarvis with teams that were positively distasteful to the college. In other words the teams were such as could justly be termed "muckerish." It was, however, not because of the muckerish affiliations of the players that such teams were brought here; but simply because the collegiate championship must be won. These twelves were the best unprofessional teams about Boston. They were as strongly objected to by the players as by the college; and the blame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 5/17/1888 | See Source »

...nine yesterday afternoon by the portion of the audience composed of Harvard undergraduates, In a recent issue you took occasion to criticise the unseemly conduct of the spectators at the Yale-Harvard game in New Haven; nothing, it seems to me, could have been much more unseemly than the "muckerish" conduct of the men on Holmes Field yesterday. During a six years residence in Cambridge I have never seen its equal for ungentlemanliness, and hope never to again. As long as possible I tried to excuse the conduct of the men, laying it to freshness and over-enthusiasm; but when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/19/1887 | See Source »

What appears more disgraceful than the defeat is the "muckerish" way in which certain undergraduates attempted to win the game by yelling. Yesterday we had occasion to call attention to the evil which was creeping into the class games. Now, in an intercollegiate contest, Harvard has been reduced to the level which has always been the object of scorn and contempt heretofore, and deserves to remain so. It is much to be regretted that, besides those who supported the nine, there were men on the team itself, whose conduct eminently ill-fitted the occasion. The fresh man nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/19/1887 | See Source »

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