Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fact. After waiting a reasonable time and verifying all the evidence, the names of those who can offer no satisfactory explanation should then be published. The number of men who intentionally allow their tickets to fall into speculators' hands is comparatively small, but there are every year very flagrant cases. Undergraduate and graduate opinion frowns upon this form of making capital out of connection with the University, but as long as the evidence obtained is used only to prevent past offenders from enjoying further privileges, individual consciences alone will regulate the practice. Surely no one who really believes it honorable...
Petitions, containing in brief form the most flagrant of the abuses of the Russian government, have been sent to the University and have been placed in the following places, where members of the University may sign them: the Co-operative, Memorial Hall office, Randall Hall office, and Leavitt & Peirce...
...order that cases might be investigated before becoming too flagrant, bodies of state officers should be instituted, who should know the names and records of offenders. Furthermore, if fewer peddling licenses were issued, if police stations were closed to tramps who might better be confined in places where work was exacted, and if blind and crippled children were attended to early in life, we should find a great decrease in the number of these useless citizens...
...Smythe's article shows that the delay of the law in the usual criminal case is not so great as is generally supposed, the popular opinion being due to the notoriety accorded the delay in flagrant cases...
...cause of honesty, and without partisan motives, we wish to protest against the flagrant misrepresentation by the Harvard Democrat in its issue of last Saturday, October 20, of President Eliot's article in the Outlook of the same date. Courtesy requires that we cast no reflections on the literary and journalistic morality of the editors of the Democrat...