Word: flagrant
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...rush line adopt a different style of playing, there ought to be three vacancies in the eleven very soon, - and these must be filled (or retained) by men who have shown themselves worthy to do so. The whole eleven, in fact, must brace, and brace very hard; but the flagrant cases ought to be remedied at once...
...worn out with the very sight of his ineffectual labor to have you seize what he says. These are common faults and are met with constantly, and they are faults that with a little patient practice under competent guidance could have been avoided. Then there are the flagrant errors in pronunciation that we hear on all sides. Indeed, it is said on good authority that President Eliot and George William Curtis are the only speakers in this country who pronounce English with anything like accuracy - to say nothing of elegance. We hope our words on this matter will not fall...
...left field, but the others did not distinguish themselves. Edgerly bore off the honors for Harvard, and Foster and Wiestling also did excellent work. The umpiring was inconceivably bad. Grant seemed determined to made every decision against Harvard, his ruling on Allen's foul being more than usually flagrant. It is a poor excuse to offer for a defeat that the umpire was unfair, but Harvard should protest Grant's engagement next year after his performances in the Princeton and Yale games...
...from the wishes of the CRIMSON to try in any way to palliate the offence, we must agree with a growing college sentiment, which says that such punishment is too severe for the crime committed. To impose the same penalty for this as attends the most flagrant offences against morality and the college discipline, seems a trifle unjust...
...seems like a strange contradiction that journals professedly religious and temperate should be the most prone to indulge in intemperate and preposterous charges against the morality of college life. A most absurd and unfounded slander upon Harvard students, charging upon them the grossest and most flagrant intemperance, appears in a late number of the National Temperance Advocate, a story which it would be superfluous to deny. There may be a kind of temperance which the journal we have quoted does not profess to advocate but which motives of consistency might move it to adopt. Temperance of speech...