Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reported that Dr. Pope has discovered several new and puzzling curves which will play havoc with our batsmen this afternoon...
...very forcible manner. In 1875 the sophomore societies were abolished by the order of the faculty, and a few years later the freshman societies ceased to exits by decree of the same powers. In 1876 a band of undergraduates broke into one of the senior society halls and made havoc generally with what they could lay hands upon, and in 1878 another gang of collegiate marauders embellished two of the senior society halls by means of a bountiful use of paint, laid on in original designs. These last offenders were tried in the city court, but they escaped free...
...floods in Germany and elsewhere are subsiding, and as the waters recede the terrible havoc wrought becomes apparent...