Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unfriendly attitude which the Faculty has at times shown toward athletics owes its origin, not to the academic records of athletes, but to general disregard for College work on the days before and after important contests. In the present case, there is no reason why today's routine of lectures and recitations should not be carried through with absolute regularity. Every man who will attend scrupulously to this should have the satisfaction of doing his share to prove groundless one of the most dangerous criticisms of athletics...
Holding was the cause for more than 60 per cent of the penalties inflicted, while the remaining 40 per cent was due to offside plays and other miscellaneous offences. It is true that most of the disregard for the rules can be attributed to the extreme eagerness of the players, but this explanation in no way belittles the fact that the team is not playing strictly according to the rules. The technique of the game seems to be well mastered, but the ability to adhere to the rules appears to be missing...
Several half-hearted attempts were made this year to fulfill the above provisions, but it was found impossible to obtain a quorum and nothing was done. The result is that pure inertia and a fine disregard of duty on the part of the representative men making up the Council prevented the body from perpetuating itself, and, under its constitution, it has ceased to exist...
...just recently Harvard officially abandoned basketball and swimming, because they did not pay their way; and at Yale they are hanging in the balance for the same reason. This seems a disregard of the very essence of undergraduate athletics that is no less than amazing retrogression...
...sports before are now taking their exercise in some out-of-door form. In addition to this change there is an increase of over one hundred in the number of those playing scrub baseball and engaged in wrestling. We wonder how these figures can be construed into showing "a disregard of the very essence of undergraduate athletics...