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There is a certain class of students in this college who under favorable conditions revert to the mucker-collegiate type, long since out of date, and insist on behaving in a way which can only be described as intensely and drippingly wet. Such are the kind that perpetrate the subway riot tradition, and upon this class the Vagabond proposes to do slaughter, mayhem, and bodily violence, when and if a riot breaks out this evening. His tactics may be all wrong, he may only be adding fuel to the fire but at least he will have given outlet...
...Even as a relaxative its merit is far above most fiction of the idly amorous type. Also, it is probably authentic. (The country's leading stove works are now in combine.) That Villain Lockhart was founded on fact, however, is doubtful. His tactics are consistently those of the mucker football player who not only gouges eyes and kicks groins when on the field, but also spends every waking moment in poisoning coffee, writing fake telegrams, hiring kidnapers, etc., etc. Had such a character ever existed in U. S. business, he would have been notorious far beyond the narrow confines...
...intercollegiate "hate," the shaken soul finds comfort in that always calm old friend, the dictionary. "Lampoon" comes from "lampoons," let us drink. Liquor in Cambridge seems to have degenerated. Lampy's ancient humor has become mere billingsgate. Hollis Holworthy, that sometime mirror of correctness and savoir faire, has gone "mucker." To bedaub guests with insult was worthy of that curious taste. When one remembers such urbane Lampooners as the distinguished lawyer and sometime Ambassador who wrote "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge," one is surprised by the difference of the modern tone. Such is the improving effect of intercollegiate sport upon...
...disgraceful disturbance at the Majestic Theatre on Monday night by a company of Harvard students deserved a more adequate punishment than the fines imposed upon the half-dozen young rowdies who were arrested. When a student conducts himself like a 'mucker' he should be treated as such. No band of hoodlums in this city ever behaved in so outrageous a manner in any place of public amusement as did these 'young gentlemen' of Harvard on this occasion...
...permanent progress can only come from another quarter, from men who are willing to give up part of their time to help. Money is not needed so much as a spontaneous constructive interest to find out how "that damn mucker" lives...