Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...these the undergraduates will agree heartily; but there is another consideration, probably the most important of all in determining our ability to draw students from distant states, that the graduates are too much inclined to overlook. As affairs stand today the western man is at a great disadvantage in the undergraduate community, partly because he is not known by preparatory school connections. The disadvantage is by no means insuperable--indeed it is easily overcome by a man of some congeniality and the average amount of energy...
...more exclusive privilege to Juniors than ever before, and has shown every possible consideration for the undergraduate point of view. For the present Junior class not to come up to expectations would indeed be a confession of weakness, which the authorities in future years could not be expected to overlook...
...predecessors. No one dreamed of vying with Homer, but only of serving and exalting him. After all these various traditions had been handed down, it probably fell to the lot of some great poet to combine them into one great work. In reading this work we must overlook the inconsistencies, and regard it in a spirit of sympathetic imagination, for behind it is an intensity of imagination, not merely of one great poet, but the accumulated emotion of generations
...times as he does not. A man having such a profession, should choose a party and a leader to whom he feels that he can give his allegiance. The true basis of such allegiance is having enough in common with the party and the leader to be able to overlook minor differences. In this way a man can take part in politics under the rules of the game as it is now being played in the United States, and can have a much greater opportunity to bring about reform than if he entered as an independent...
...central idea of the poem, it is true, seems on a second reading, falsely dramatic, and is not justified by the scant explanation of its motive; yet the ease of the lines and the unfailing interest in the thought go a long way toward helping the reader to overlook this defect. Another piece of verse, "March in Massachusetts," by L. W., makes one wish to drop work and get into the country...