Word: pandemonium
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...person. Just toward the middle of the first act a boat crossed the stage as a part of the play. Two persons are in this boat, and when it came in full view of the audience, there was the obnoxious flag mounted in the stern of the boat. Then pandemonium broke loose with a vengeance...
...pattern is everywhere the same. Two orators and two poets, chosen by vote of the undergraduates themselves, in turn commemorated the glories of Harvard, criticized its system, and exhorted to emulation of its past. The most perfect decorum prevailed; in fact any one who had witnessed the pandemonium of the Oxford Encaenia could not fail to marvel that these things could be. The Harvard undergraduates no doubt felt the responsibility of the occasion. They were taking their part in a great celebration, and were doing their duty to themselves and their Alma Mater. Nothing could exceed the order with which...
...into shape. Much merriment was caused at this time by the freshmen lighting their torches long before the parade began, and thrusting them into each other's callow faces, and under the spectators' noses with childish glee. The veterans from '87 and '88 stood indifferent and unmoved while this pandemonium was going on about them, and greatly facilitated proceedings by the extreme promptness and order in which they formed in line...
...general demonstration by the college; twenty-five men could be named who made ninety-nine per cent, of the noise. That three or four possessors of fish horns and boyish lovers of noise in general, and cannon crackers in particular, should be allowed to turn Harvard square into pandemonium, is a disgrace to the Cambridge police. It is the duty of the CRIMSON as the representative of the best college sentiment, to sit down on those young gentlemen who seize every opportunity to make nuisances of themselves...
...which it seems to me cannot but be satisfactory. Since every other means has failed, why cannot the college set apart one entry in one of the college buildings where rooms will be let to all possessing and playing upon musical instruments exclusively. Here would be our musicians' paradise - pandemonium extraordinary. I think by this plan all would be suited; the musicians themselves probably, and certainly a large body...