Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College watchman was exhibited in an iron cage, heavily shackled; he looked sleepy and harmless, and some urchins running along-side even dared to tickle him with a straw. The whole pageant was brilliantly illuminated by an electric light in charge of a professor of physics, who had borrowed it from Edison expressly for this occasion. The enlivening strains of heavenly melody, the brightly flashing armor of the knights, the brilliant galaxy of starry loveliness, the ferocious roaring of the imprisoned monsters, - all combined to make a scene richer than