Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Nation, on the other hand, while claiming to endorse President Eliot's attitude, seems really to have little in common with it. Through all of the excited utterances on football of which the the Nation has delivered itself of late, there has been a wilful disregard of facts, an unwillingness to admit anything good of the opposite side, that entirely shuts it out from any claim upon intelligent attention. Such phrases as "brute instincts which they have been sedulously cultivating," "animal gratifications," and the like, indicate an attitude of mind the opposite of candid or dignified. It may be that...
...year have, up to this time, been required to do no tank work. Formerly the old men have gone into the tank to do the same work as those who were inexperienced, that is, to start from the beginning and to learn the stroke. This of course necessitates a disregard of many of the finer points of the stroke, that eventually have to be re-learned. The last year's men are, however, required to do the same amount of running and exercising as those of less experience...
...classes who room on the Campus, asking for the restoration of the college bell. This petition was a nearly unanimous expression of opinion, as only twenty two of those to whom it was presented refused to sign, and the action of the authorities seems to us to show a disregard for the wishes of the student body which is, to say the least, most inconsiderate. With due respect, we wish to state our opinion that the continuance of such a policy is sure to mar the pleasant relations existing between the Faculty and the College...
...manliness and honor of the great majority of the students, I should nevertheless be lacking in my duty to them and to the Alma Mater were I not to express myself strongly in condemnation of an event which lately took place in Boston, flagrant in its selfishness and utter disregard of the rights of others...
...opposed to the high ideas of honor on which Harvard men pride themselves as the misuse of books provided by the University libraries. We refer to the way in which some men, - their number we are sure is not large, - appropriate reserved books to their own uses with absolute disregard of the convenience of their fellow students. Perhaps this is too mild a criticism of a man who takes from the shelves a greater number of books than his immediate needs require and gloats over his ill-gotten gains in some obscure alcove. What is to be said then...