Word: disregard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strange that in practice against an inferior team, individuality is more strongly apparent in the superior team, than when it is compelled to play as a unit so as to win. Thus it is that individual players on our team are too apt to disregard the other members of the eleven in their practice, and thus in an important game where combined strength would succeed, it cannot be put forward on account of lack of practice. The foot-ball team show even now the effects of the careful practice of the past month, but there is still room for improvement...
...causes of the disaster in order that the responsibility for it may be placed where it belongs, and that we may be guarded against the possibility of a repetition of such an occurrence in the future. That the whole accident was due to a careless and almost criminal disregard of the most ordinary precaution on the part of the responsible parties in leaving the building in such a dangerous condition, is evident to those who have examined into the state of the case, and it is due to the corporation, who own the building, as well as ourselves, that...
...accommodation. Now, however, this rule is changed, and the ladies all sit together. After this it seemed nothing strange to go into the class room, take my assigned seat and go through with the recitation entirely oblivious to the "distraction" next to me. To conceive of this feeling of disregard for the occupant of the next seat, one must distinguish between the typical boarding-school girl, who is sent for an education, and the mature woman who goes for an education. Very rare is the exception when a lady does or says any thing in the class room...
...sorry to see that a number of tennis players violate the rules of the association by playing without tennis shoes. It is indispensable for the improvement of our courts that all who play should wear tennis shoes, and we hope that no one from thoughtlessness will disregard the request of the association on this point. It is an injustice to the other members of the association for some members to totally refuse to be guided by rules intended for the common good. It is necessary for the association to become a success that it should meet with the hearty...
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