Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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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...