Word: disregard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...blame for this state of affairs, but we, the students, are also to be censured because we do not take interest enough to demand electives in American history. It cannot be denied that every young American should have more than a school knowledge of his country's history. To disregard it shows a want of pride in our native land and a lack of appreciation of, our ancestors whose trials and labors made us what...
Some of the colleges affect to disregard student opinion. The ultra conservatism of the old-time pedagogue cannot easily brook the democratic tendencies of undergraduate thought in the modern American college. But the more liberal of the colleges, and Harvard, no doubt, among them, have come to recognize that undergraduate opinion should, to a certain extent, be respected. Indeed, this belief has been carried so far that in one or two instances attempts have been made to establish a system of self government among the college classes. Undergraduate opinion, it should always be remembered, is likely before long to become...
...steward is not one of sudden rise destined to short duration. It has gradually become the conviction, we believe, of a large majority of the boarders at the ball, only strengthened by repeated trials, followed by repeated failures, that the present steward has failed, either through carelessness or wilful disregard, to pay proper attention to the expressed wishes of the board of directors in the matter of the regulation of the price of board and the general management of the hall. This is certainly not a trivial ground on which to base the demand for his removal. It is absolutely...
...shown, and the average number burned for the last eight years was given. For churches the average is two a week. A diagram of a combustible hotel was next shown, warranted, as the lecturer remarked, "to burn in half an hour." Hotels are built with such an utter disregard of fire, that an average of one and one-fourth a day are destroyed...
Ever since the Christmas holidays several rumors have been afloat concerning the disregard of training rules practised by some of the members of the freshman crew. Instead of decreasing, as time goes on these reports seem to be multiplied, showing that the non-training members are not settling down to hard work as they should. We are satisfied that these stories have some foundation, although they may be, and we hope they are, exaggerated...