Although the papers of Yale and Harvard may occasionally engage in a tilt in a wordy warfare over some such subject as the freshman ball game, there seems to be at least one subject on which all are agreed, and that is in denouncing the "mucker" nuisance. Nor. is it alone at Cambridge and New Haven, but at every college town of any considerable size these little nuisances seem to make their baneful presence felt. We can heartily join with the Yale Record when it breaks fourth in the following wail:

"There is a perennial evil against which we raise an annual cry,-the muckers. We need not enumerate in how many and varied ways they contrive to exhibit their innate disagreeableness. Seven days in the week, and every hour in the day they are an eyesore and a provocation to profanity. They may be amusing at times, but whoever encourages their presence at the fence or on the campus, is laying up just so much annoyance for himself and for all future generations."

Truly, we wish that New Haven and Cambridge and all those seats of learning which are subject to this plague could find some remedy which would free them forever from it. Not only are they continually in the way and making themselves obnoxious, but, by their lack of manners, as shown in their treatment of visiting ball clubs and other organizations, they often bring discredit upon the body of students.