Word: mell
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hounds of running through yards, breaking down fences, and otherwise doing damage, thus causing ill-feeling to be arroused against the College on the part of the owners of the property. As a matter of fact, all of the fences scaled were as intact after the so-called "pell-mell on-slaught" of the hounds as before. Indeed, the whole extent of the damage was that a grape-vine was slightly torn from its fastenings and that a flowerbed in which there were no flowers was trampled down...
...many of them down, is not only unethical, but illegal. For fifty or more men to make a public high-way of a private yard is a trespass against the rights of the owner. The average back fence, too, is not built with a view to resist the pell mell onslaught of such a mass. Yesterday's course, which went through a score of yards, resulted in some destruction of property and probably aroused considerable ill-feeling against the college. This last we cannot well afford to do. I believe the full benefits of this worthy sport may be obtained...