Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...encouragement given to betting and other rowdy accompaniments of professional athletics. The truest accounts of the Yale game, it is asserted, show it to have been a disgraceful exhibition of brutality and cheating. It is declared that the referee seemed powerless to see or check the continual disregard of rules, that the position of umpire seemed degraded to that of coach, and that the theory of the winning game was to violate rules at every available opportunity, and to physically disable antagonists regardless of the consequences. It is urged that if such practices are to continue year after year intercollegiate...
...better co-educational system; but of this at least it is known that its advantages have been thoroughly proved. That it has no drawback whatever has also been proved - and proved, too, by authorities which no American college of high or low degree has a right to disregard. The sooner Harvard University admits women upon exactly the same terms with Oxford the better for her reputation for intelligence and usefulness. Meanwhile, if any generous person proposes to endow the annex, he may well consider the sweet reasonableness of waiting until the system is adjusted upon the principles of sound common...
...many names engraved on the marble tablets which line the transept; not a flag floated in the breeze. Memorial Hall had another object besides that of a memorial; it was intended to educate the youth of Harvard College in patriotism. We cannot help asking if to disregard the laws of the State which made yesterday a legal holiday, to neglect on that day of all days recognition of the patriot dead, to leave Memorial Hall without decoration, is the best way to inculcate patriotism in the minds of the youth of the land? - [Globe, May 31st...
Last week the college was edified by one of those disgraceful exhibitions known as a rush. The utter disregard of college custom on the part of our freshmen caused the sophomores to get up the following notice...
...been proved that college buildings can and will burn." That paper further congratulates the occupants of "sky parlors" on the increased security afforded them by the new improvements. We wish we could say the same for Harvard, but the fact is that we are living in singular disregard of any provisions for safety in case of fire. Only one or two of our dormitories possess fire-escapes, while the greater number of them are mere fire-traps, where any sudden violent conflagration late at night would be attended by a lamentable loss of life. The different entries are shut...