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...supreme during the pleasant spring all over the 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...
Zaide (Cassim's ditto),............T. J. Coolidge Ladies of the Harem, Thieves, Guests, Tag, Rag, and Robert-tail...
...cool May evening at Oberlin. The students were sitting under the trees singing hymns or playing squat-tag and blind-man's-buff on the campus. Here and there a kindly-faced professor might be seen playing puss-in-the-corner with a merry group of girls, a copy of OEdipus peeping out of one of his pockets and a Revised New Testament out of another. But one by one the happy revellers ceased their sport, and in parties of two or three withdrew to their respective dormitories...
...needs College aid is particularly to be encouraged, - he must not be lost sight of, he is the mainstay of the land; but, if he is pecuniarily successful in after life, his children are snubbed in their turn, - they have their innings in the little game of College tag, and out go they: so that College tactics would seem to be directed to the admirable end of preparing men without means for the propagation of the loafing species...