Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish, difficult though the task is, to try to express the gratitude which the college feels for such service as Goodrich stands for. His work has been of the sort which Harvard may well take pride in-absolute devotion to the cause, and absolute disregard for personal interests...
...disfiguring the pedestal of the statue of John Harvard is a type of outrage that should be punished so severely that there may be no fear of its occuring again for a long time to come. There is something peculiarly underhanded and despicable about the affair, in the utter disregard for the rights of others exhibited by its authors. For the worst of it is that the culprits themselves are too insignificant to suffer the full effect of their charming mixture of sneak and bravado...
...even informed that a petition signed by a majority of their number would not have weight. This was one of the most irritating circumstances in the whole affair and led to much of the bitter feeling which prevailed. To find that one part of the University will not inconsiderately disregard the feelings and opinions of another, as at first we believed it intended, is a cause for rejoicing...
...present system of state control of elections is dangerous to the unity of the section.- (a) Under this system the negro must necessarily continue to be defrauded of the rights of citizenship: Outlook, Aug. 10, 1895; Arena, II, 561 (November 1890).- (b) Open defiance of the Constitution breeds a disregard for authority and a revolutionary spirit: North Am. Review CXXXII, 247 (February, 1881).- (c) This question should be removed from the constantly increasing number of questions which tend to divide the country on sectional lines...
There was much blame deserved by both Ninety-seven and Ninety-eight yesterday for their disregard of the request not to use firearms at the game. For this request there were various excellent reasons, but had it seemed utterly groundless it should yet have been granted out of respect to those who made it. Repeatedly, after the chairman of the Athletic Committee had spoken, the captain and manager of the freshman nine remonstrated with the class, but wholly without avail. Ninety-seven, so far from setting the example of compliance, by their own firing very effectively spurred the freshmen...