Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oxonian lately visiting Harvard expressed amazement at what seemed to him the utter disregard of the comfort of the student in the matter of food and in other respects. In case of sickness the student's position is simply wretched. Except some Gampish old bed-makers, apparently indebted for their position to their ugliness and squalor, not an attendant is visible between early one morning and early the next, and there is no kitchen whence a student can get as much as a bowl of soup or slice of bread and butter. The whole system, or rather want of system...
...well known that young men, when without proper supervision and direction, disregard the most elementary rules of hygiene. They bathe and exercise directly after eating; and, especially, they eat directly after exercising. Now it is to prevent, as far as may be, this latter injurious habit that the Gymnasium is closed at 5.30; for most of the men who exercise there board at Memorial Hall, where the dinner hour is from 5.30 to 6.30. If, therefore, the Gymnasium were kept open till six, those who stayed until that time would have to rush straight from their exercise to their dinner...
...warm approval; otherwise, English is the last thing to be abandoned, especially while Classics and Mathematics employ nearly three-fourths of the Freshman year. It is this and other similar moves that have led many people to suppose that there exists among some members of the Faculty a disregard of all departments but their own, and in particular a hostility to the English Department, which is not creditable to the reputed liberality of their ideas as to college instruction and government...
...Senior Class elections will soon take place, and we wish to remind Seniors that a creditable Class Day is the result of an utter disregard of society lines in the elections for class officers. There is no fear now, as there was when '81 was the Freshman class, that Class Day will cease to be a College institution; that danger has passed away; but there is, unhappily, still extant a feeling that every one of the several sections into which each class is divided should have a due representation; even last year there was some dissatisfaction expressed over the "distribution...