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There has always been a great deal of petty thievery committed about the college dormitories, and there has never been anything done about it. The Cambridge "mucker" grows up with the cry of "Got a penny, Jack" on his lips. If he is of the better type he sells papers--if not, he takes what he wants when he can get it. Sometimes he goes to school--when he thinks that he will be caught if he doesn't--and sometimes he "plays hookey...
...Talking to your opponents, if it falls short of being abusive or insulting, is not prohibited by the rules, partly because it ought not to be necessary and partly because no rules can make a gentleman out of a 'mucker.' No good sportsman is ever guilty of cheap talk to his opponents...
...college football teams. This consists of a series of suggestions to players, and is not intended to be enforced by officials, being supplementary to the existing official rules. The spirit of the code is expressed in a quotation from it: ". . . no rules can make a gentleman out of a 'mucker...
...book may be found vivid sketches and descriptions of members of the faculty and such familiar characters as John the Yard Cop, the scrambling Cambridge mucker, and the vacillating section-man. The pictures are very well drawn, and show in mild caricature the funny side of many of the well-known University characters. The sketches are on the right-hand pages, while on the left appear humorously interesting remarks about the subject of each picture. The various best known and best liked faculty members are shown in what the author judges typical moods...
...persist in demonstrating their throwing ability may do irreparable damage to Memorial Hall and Harvard University by injuring or destroying oil paintings that cannot be replaced. Cheering and singing during the dinner hour are desirable forms of expressing superabundant enthusiasm, but the throwing of foodstuffs smacks more of the mucker than the student. So this evening the enthusiasm, which we realize is at the explosive point near the end of the football season, should find expression in vocal, not physical exercise...