Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...column and a half of abuse of the Exchange Editor of that paper. The Beacon evidently regards the Advocate's remarks as an attack against college co-education, a subject upon which the members of Boston University are naturally somewhat sensitive. But this is hardly sufficient excuse for such flagrant abuse of our brother editor. The names "little innocent" and "mucker" which he is called in different parts of the paper can seldom be applied to the same individual; "child" and "frequenter of lager-beer saloons," too, are equally inconsistent. However, the writer of the communication is evidently a lady...
...long as the marking-system exists, so long complaints will be made after every examination, but there is one flagrant case of injustice which should not be passed over in silence. Those who elect a course in French do not expect in a year to learn to write French as well as the Parisians, nor are they told in the elective pamphlet that the examination is to be partly or wholly in French. But when we ask for our marks, what is the answer? "You have a very low per cent, and I feel that you ought to have more...
...that we find ourselves called upon to notice so disgraceful an affair as that which occurred, recently, under the auspices of the owner of a bull-dog. As most of our readers are acquainted with the circumstances of the case, we will not enter into them, but that so flagrant an exhibition of cruelty and rowdyism should pass among us without notice would justify the accusations of a low standard of morality which writers in the Transcript have striven so hard to substantiate. The individuals who were concerned in the affair are liable to prosecution for cruelty to animals...
...most flagrant sinners against the canons of good taste in pronunciation in college, I have distinguished three well-defined classes: the Western, the Southern, and the New England. The first two, while doing justice, as a general rule, to the vowel o, manifest a decided aversion to the broad a (as in father), with an inclination to make the r painfully distinct. Untrammelled by dictionaries, both pronounce such words as aunt, haunt, daunt, cant, etc., ant, hant, dant, cant, while half and laugh are emasculated into haff and laff. Iron, which authority allows us to charitably call iurn, is contorted...
...Levee," or designate it by some worthy title. Class Day belongs to the class in its corporate capacity, and the exclusion of a single individual who belongs to it from the privilege of voting directly or indirectly in the nomination and election of each Class-Day officer is a flagrant violation of his rights, and most probably a misrepresentation of his sentiments. It is to make Class Day a misnomer which we should blush to celebrate...