Word: ructions
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Dates: during 1886-1886
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...American scholar, concerning his son's career at Yale may interest some of our readers: "My son is doing nobly at college. The hereditary instinct is beginning to assert itself at last. He has joined the Young Men's Christian Association; has been foremost in every class rush and ruction; claims to have disabled permanently two sophomores, - and is himself a mass of bruises from head to foot. His popularity has so grown that all the freshman secret societies are after him, and he has, as I understand, already joined several. From his last engagement he sought his room with...