Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there is no use in electing a committee. And yet, however great confidence the faculty may have in us, and I sincerely hope we deserve it, it is still necessary, if we undertake student government, to have some definite and practical method of working. The faculty may disregard the "how," but with us it is half the question...
...foot-ball, where predis-positions can only be overcome by exciting contests in which they become actively interested. For many men on being asked if they have ever seen a lacrosse game, answer, "No, and I never want to!" Such men should be ashamed of their foolish and obstinate disregard of what is growing to be one of the most popular sports of this country. Let them go to Holmes Field this afternoon and make up their minds whether they "never wish to see another lacrosse game or not;" we assure them that they will wish to see not only...
...existence. This moral must be an impressive one and suited like everything else to the taste of the public to which it appeals. Again, the characters must conform to nationality of the audience. All the characters of a play for Englishmen must be English in everything but name. To disregard these elementary laws is to insure short life to a play. The public will endure the work of impositors to a limited extent, but it rarely goes beyond the bounds of toleration...
...either are quite indifferent to sitting, or find it an irksome task. To such we say only this. Failure on any one's part to comply with the requests made in the notices of the different secretaries of clubs and societies, not only inconveniences the photographer, but shows a disregard of the feelings and desires of others, and help to defeat the very object for which the custom of group photographs was established and is now maintained...
...Association may be considered a success. The events were promptly called and carried on in the spirit of fairness which should characterize all such exhibitions at Harvard, and moreover, with one or two exceptions, were well contested. One noticeable feature of the meeting was the absence of that utter disregard of other people's pleasure which is exhibited when one half of an audience persists in standing up and shutting off the view of the other half. Neither were the tug-of-war teams suffocated by a dense mass of sympathic humanity crowding about them in a vain effort...