Word: blacklisted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...confronted by the question whether the Athletic Association is or is not going to carry out its tacit threat to hold up to contempt the Harvard men guilty of speculation in football tickets. Year after year it it has been rumored, but not openly stated, that the blacklist was to be published. Just as regularly have the guilty persons escaped public discountenance, and just as regularly has the blacklist continued to grow, despite the fact that the men on this list have been deprived of the privilege to apply for tickets in the future...
...authorities are really in earnest and mean that speculation shall stop, the blacklist must be published. A vast amount of effort was expended this year in detecting speculation, and if it is not to be wasted, the results must be made known. The moral effect of merely depriving a man of his privileges is no longer sufficient. The only way in which those who contemplate using privileges for personal gain can be brought to their senses is by publicly disgracing those already caught...
...think it would be advisable to publish the names of all whose tickets are discovered in speculators hands. The "blacklist," however, should, by depriving all offenders of future privileges, be sufficient to deter any but the most unscrupulous from this unjustifiable practice...