Word: havoc
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...Harvard publication says that men during the season do next to nothing in their studies, President Eliot says that the distractions of the game grow greater every year, and a prominent member of this year's Harvard team says that for the past two years University football has played havoc with his studies. Twenty-one colleges in Iowa and Illinois have passed a resolution to the effect that American football as now played is not suitable for educational institutions. This testimony proves that either study or football must be sacrificed...
Years before Dudley came to Harvard College there were in New England a number of French Huguenots driven into exile by the edict of Nantes. The story of their sufferings on account of their faith awakened the sympathy of the New Englanders. The Indian massacres, which wrought such havoc on the quiet New England settlements, were believed to be instigated by the Jesuit priests in Canada. These facts account for Judge Dudley's bitterness toward the Catholics...
...responsibility that rests with the superintendent of buildings will be duly appreciated when one considers how much havoc carelessness on his part may produce in the health of a large part of the college community...
Prof. Lanciani, in his lecturing tour in this country, has suffered some $100 loss from the breaking of lantern slides and the like, caused by frequent packings and unpackings and the havoc of traveling...
...effect is truly startling. Long, long years have passed since these gay folk lived and loved and fought and made merry in the old Palatinate. Havoc and desolation have swept the city time and again since then. They had their day and went to rest; and their bones have long since dropped quietly to dust. Yet some weird spell has called them from the grave. Here they are once more, riding through these same streets, with the same trappings, the same armor, the same music and, in the case of historical personages, almost the same features. Professor Jacob Mycillus goes...