Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have started, and in the attic. Ladders were immediately raised, and hose was run up, but with so little order that it was some time before a stream was brought to bear on the flames. The firemen paid little attention to the furniture, throwing it from the windows, regardless of consequences. Luckily a number of students joined in the work, and succeeded, by lowering the heavy articles with ropes and carpets, in saving most of them from damage by water. In a short time the whole south entry was flooded, the water, several inches deep, covering the floors...
...this evil we have endured, because no way has presented itself by which we could escape from it. But is each instructor also to construe the rules of the Faculty in conformity to his own views of the best methods of instruction in an institution such as Harvard College, regardless of the rights and privileges of the students, as guaranteed to them by its government? If so, the sooner it is clearly understood the better; at least for the students...
...loss of the race was due greatly to the superior weight of the Cornell crew, who seemed to force their boat through the water regardless of their form or anything else. The fact that Captain North was unable to row had much to do with the result, for it was impossible that even so good an oar as Mr. Foster could fill with his light weight the place in the waist of the boat formerly occupied by the "heavy man" of the crew...
HARVARD labors under a disadvantage in being a college where it is suitable to go regardless of expense. A certain class of young men must be sent to college because that is the high-toned thing, and famous and costly institutions will be the victims, and that in spite of high standards. At the same time some of the best material will be lost on account of lack of means, - Oberlin Review...
...were out of the world, - which is not at all the same thing as feeling as if you were in heaven. In my time these societies were great political powers. When any class elections came, they would divide the various offices between themselves, and walk off with them, regardless of opposition. This fact gave them a reason for existence which made them, though they were not very entertaining, very popular indeed. I am told, however, that their days of power are numbered, - that the outsiders have mustered this year, and borne off in triumph the offices which the poor...