Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...evenings appointed for the Senior class to visit the Observatory have failed, we fear, to give entire satisfaction to those chiefly interested. The sky, with a shameful disregard of all right feeling in the matter, has remained persistently overcast for most of the time appointed. It certainly seems that the authorities are well borne out by the elements in their determination to keep us away from the Observatory. We know that we are asking a great deal, but if there come a nice clear evening next week, would it not be allowable for a few men from seventy-eight...
...labor, and that after they have been passed there is no more work to be done, - a feeling which is prevalent among the men who come here, and which does not wholly disappear until the Annuals. Again, there would be less of cramming on special points, and of disregard for everything not likely to be on the examination-papers. And, finally, it would do something toward raising the standard of the fitting schools, and thus towards making it possible for Harvard to become, in the fullest sense of the word, a university...
...suggested that " Ossip's " independent man was only a straw man, or in case he did exist, that he was a very foolish and ill-mannered creature. We defended real independence, which we said consisted "in fearlessly acting in accordance with the dictates of a manly conscience with absolute disregard to popular opinion," and " in fearlessly speaking whenever there is a principle at issue." In illustration of the second principle we said that when Hollis Holworthy " talked like a Harvard man " about getting drunk, his hearers ought, instead of smiling approval, to " intimate " their disapprobation...
Thus will lovers disregard...
...case in point? H. H. avows his intention of getting "as full as a goat." "G. E.," whose opinion is not asked, intimates, "delicately but intelligibly," that he is "gabbling like a gosling." This he calls "fearlessly acting in accordance with the dictates of a manly conscience, with absolute disregard of popular opinion." Granted that there is a "principle at stake," granting that H. H. is "going to the dogs," does "G. E." rescue him from the abyss of ruin by intimating, "delicately but intelligibly," that he is "gabbling like a gosling"? No; he admits that he only expects...