Word: ballo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seniors and juniors, wishing to be identified in some way with the trouble, concluded to interfere with this meeting, and accordingly proceeded to the meeting armed with tin horns and various other noisy instruments and disturbed the peace of the deliberating professors and freshmen with an incessant hulla-ballo. The professors sallied forth and captured a few of the serenaders. The offense was thought a sufficient cause for suspension, and two of the unfortunate upper classmen were invited to take a vacation. Their fellows thought this unfair, and appealed to the faculty, saying that they were also engaged...