An innovation which the management of the nine is about to attempt is worthy of attention and commendation. Rampant muckerdom, regardless of the rights of private individuals and corporations, reigns 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, as well as their smaller brethren, have become a nuisance upon the athletic fields when any practice games or exercise is going on.

It is this latter phase of the mucker nuisance, their continual presence upon the fields, which the manager of the nine will attempt to abate. He proposes to hire a special police officer to look after the grounds, and in case the muckers do not keep away, to have a few of them arrested each day and prosecuted to the full extent of the law, for trespassing on private property.

A few cases of this sort will soon put a stop to the nuisance, and we shall then experience the novel sensation of taking our exercise in peace upon our own grounds. We hope that the manager will not delay in carrying out his purpose, and feel sure that the students will gladly subscribe to pay for the added expense for the nine.

Only one further suggestion remains to be made, that the college authorities either hire another such policeman to keep the muckers out of the yard or else have authority conferred by the city upon their own employees to arrest intruders who do not retire from the yard after sufficient warning has been given them.