Word: overlooked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opposite, was used in revolutionary times for quartering American troops. We pass up Brattle street to Appian Way, whose name is enough to invite our attention, but which has other and perhaps greater charms than any classical name could give it. Entering Appian Way from Brattle street we cannot overlook the fine building on the left, which speaks so well for the success and prosperity of the now famous Harvard Annex. The building is a regular old "stager" in its way, a frame structure, nearer the shape of a cube than of anything else, painted a dirty yellow with white...
...Harvard Co-operative Society has now been in our midst for so long a time that we are rather apt to take its existence as a matter of course, and to overlook the good work it has accomplished, even while availing ourselves of its benefits...
...give them the benefit of their experience and advice, while some few have, in one or two brief sentences, described to their division the various electives under their particular branch of learning, and showed the purpose and advantage of courses which a careless man might overlook or throw aside as too hard and abstract. The faculty, on the other hand, have gone to the expense and trouble of having descriptive pamphlets printed. These short descriptions may be obtained on application at the office, and fill a long felt want. Although the advice of an instructor is good...
...athletics rest. Any thrust which diminishes competition will diminish in exact ratio the amount of interest taken in our sports, and as a direct result the amount of exercise taken by our undergraduates. We hardly like to realize this perhaps, but it is a fact too important to overlook and too evident to contradict. Twenty years ago the students of Harvard College took practically no exercise in comparison with today. The greater majority of our sports have sprung up since then. Foot-ball, base-ball, lacrosse, tennis, track athletics, etc, have passed up through deferent stages of development; they started...
...nature of the case, most of what would naturally be the business of a treasurer falls on the superintendent. It would be impossible for an undergraduate to spare the time necessary for attending strictly to the funds of the society, as in that case he would have to overlook the accounts daily. His duty is therefore principally to act as a check upon the superintendent who manages altogether the financial details...