Word: bedlamic
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...give the opposing team a fair chances to do its best. So before any student purchases one of these mechanical noise-producers, he should consider carefully what would be the combined effect of, say, ten thousand such instruments at the game tomorrow. The occasion would degenerate into a confused bedlam of noises, and organized cheering and singing would be impossible. But worst of all, Harvard men would be open to the charge of resorting to clasp, unfair and professional lactics in order to disconcert an opponent...
...decorum of its members. Particularly at the dinner hour has this been the case. Men take liberties that would not be countenanced in any other sort of a public dining hall. At the slightest provocation some jovial spirit clinks his glass, the majority, nothing loth, follows suit and a bedlam is the result. With this increase of noise there has been far too much thoughtless, although withal goodnatured, throwing of food about the hall. In this respect our reputation as a College of gentlemen has often times been questioned by visitors witnessing such proceedings. A striking example of this took...
David Masson, professor of rhetoric and English literature in the University of Edinburgh, delivered a lecture in that city on Tuesday last, in the course of which he characterized Ignatius Donnelley's Shakespearian cryptogram as miserable drivel and a tissue of arithmetic puzzles which would be hissed at in Bedlam...
...base running, and saw that their only hope lay in getting Dartmouth rattled. This, headed by oarsmen, foot ball players and others, they succeeded in doing by bombarding the visitors at every move with the college and the class yells. In the eighth this disgraceful bedlam was repeated, and the score was tied. The confusion and noise then grew worse, but both nines were blanked. In the tenth the excitement was intense. The Dartmouths failed to score, and Yale scored the winning run on Chellis' failure to stop Bremner's grounder. The batting was very hard. Many Yale men apologized...
...indescribable. No one tried to be cool or rational, but all preferred rushing about and yelling as if possessed. The judges on the press-boat, without waiting for the referee or the judges on shore, called Harvard up and presented the flags. Then the eastern shore became a perfect bedlam. There was no mistake in the shouts of "Harvard!" now; they drowned all other sounds and deafened all ears. As the crew neared the shore they were seized and literally dragged from...