Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...have noticed with very great pleasure a campaign against the present evils of the athletic administration. The most flagrant of these is the so-called two period rule, which seems to me to defeat its own end. The apparent object of this regulation is to prevent the undergraduates from indulging in sports to the neglect of their studies. It prevents men from competing in three different seasons, not in three different sports. One of the peculiar results is that a person can in one year be a member of the football, the baseball and the track teams, whereas he cannot...
...wish, through your columns, to draw attention to a flagrant abuse, on the part of certain participants in athletic sports, of their privileges in these sports. Of late years it has grown to be the practice for an athlete, upon the completion of a season in which he may have been engaged, to consider himself justified, for the purposes of "recuperating his broken health," in absenting himself, in nine cases out of ten quite unnecessarily, from Cambridge for a substantial period...
...proud of the free elective system under which we are left as free to choose our courses of study as we are free to choose our lines of work in future years? We like to be treated like men, and so we seldom stop to consider the flagrant abuses of this privilege that are perpetrated each year. In every class there are many men who are capable of electing their courses with forethought and an eye to a well-rounded education; but there are as many more who elect an irrelevant mass of studies, either because they do not honestly...
Post mortem discussions of athletic events are never pleasant, especially when a Harvard team has been defeated; but when the defeat is due to a flagrant violation of the first principles of coaching, it cannot pass without a word of protest...
...these losses points to some unworthy member or members of the University. No one who has any sense of loyalty to the University should hesitate to report any information which would lead to the discovery of the guilty parties, for the sooner an example is made of some flagrant offender, the better it will be for the Library and for the great majority who use it legitimately...