Word: disregard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...points brought out in President Eliot's address to the students last evening are well worth our attention. It is indeed too often true that college men think only of what the college may do for them, and forget, or at least disregard, their own duties to the college. What we need to do here is to exercise our freedom in a manly direction. After all, it is not athletics nor even endowments and advantages which make the college-but men. Thus it is that the present and the future usefulness and worth of Harvard must be largely...
...Bounties are wasteful. (a) They cause a dead loss to national wealth; (b) they require increased government machinery to distribute them; (c) they encourage producers to disregard the laws of supply and demand.- Nation, Jan. 17, 1889; Fort...
...speaker said that our life with its great diversity of joy and sorrow, opens like the battle of the Syrians and Israelits among the hills and valleys of Samaria. We, like the Syrians, are too apt to disregard the influence of God on the average man of the valley, and we place our attention and admiration upon the fortunate ones who have reached the mountain summits of success. But God rules among the hills and valleys alike and it is only from the later stage of mediocrity that the advance of morality is reckoned...
...important meetings take place this evening in Upper Massachusetts: the meeting of the Harvard Athletic Association at seven o'clock, and that of the Boat Club at eight. In the past two or three years it has become the fashion for the students to disregard these meetings, or at least to send a very small representation to them. Such a state of affairs is radically wrong. This matter is one that should interest all the graduates, and they should show their interest by attending the meeting. Especially should their support be given at such a crisis as this, when...
Among other things occurring in connection with Saturday's game which it would be well not to repeat was the neglect of the manager of the nine to telegraph the score immediately after the match. In consequence of this disregard of duty, rumors of all kinds floated around the college about the game, some to the effect that Harvard had won, and no authentic information was had until about nine o'clock the true score was brought out from Bostom. Such a state of uncertainty was a source of continual worry and anxiety, and no wonder men felt as though...