Word: disregard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...persons who are cheated and pillaged without mercy, students are the most prominent, being peculiarly the victims of imposition on account of their habitual recklessness and disregard of such trifles. From every College we hear this same complaint, and it will probably continue to be the case until the millennium softens the heart; but it would seem as if we in Cambridge ought really to be free from this annoyance, living as we do so near the city, where we can obtain what we wish at much more reasonable prices without very much extra trouble. Here we see the true...
...forced to the conclusion that colleges have no souls, and are mere grist-mills, which receive school-boys into their hoppers, and turn out "liberally educated men." We care nothing for the holiday in itself, but it seems to us that the Faculty has no moral right to disregard days which the whole nation celebrates. Such a policy is not calculated to create or promote that interest which young men ought to feel in the events thus commemorated...
...more of them would keep us company. Misery loves company, and it is a great aggravation to our discomfort that we are never permitted to see tutor or professor with hair unkempt and coat buttoned up around his throat. Men who would show such a lofty disregard for their own comfort might assuredly think themselves entitled to urge self-abnegation upon others; but O that those who have already reached this height might attain a still greater elevation of mind, and, like Tai, show a consideration for others that they do not feel for themselves...
America should rejoice to know that so many of her students are conditioned in Arithmetic and Modern Geography, and so few comparatively in the Classics. It evinces a commendable disregard for all things modern, and a due loyalty to the customs of our more enlightened ancestors. It is difficult to understand how any right-minded individual can advocate a course of study that contains less of Latin and Greek than the average college curriculum; yet there are those of acknowledged ability who claim that the discipline of the Classics is overrated, that it is no more adapted to the fullest...
...repetition of a truth is ever excusable, it certainly is when many of the surroundings have a tendency to bury it in forgetfulness or disregard, as they have in the ordinary life of the college student...