Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mussolini and Primo Rivera, while German democracy steers a narrow course, apparently doomed to failure, between the Scylla of hungry reds and the Charybdis of angry nationalists. Meanwhile on the Turkish question and to a lesser extent in the problem of the Ruhr, France and England have become so callous to changing positions, that it occasioned only little surprise when a recent French Yellow Book was filled with quotations from Mr. Lloyd-George, who was busy at the time of publication in most unmeasured denunciation of France...
...will unite all Harvard men? Yes, of course we want it; but we need not seek it in those places where standards are just emerging from the chaos of educational invention. We have it here in that subtle influence of tradition that no man can escape, no matter how callous; we have it in the common belief that as Harvard men we can contribute to American culture the particular qualities of the University and its environment. Perhaps this is a sort of provincialism; but I prefer a vital provincialism to an emasculated nationalism, if we are concerned with the development...
Innovations at the Union have grown to be so frequent that most of them no longer excite comment. But to-day a test is put on "Harvard indifference" that will be hard to face, without flinching. Even the most callous must blanch at the thought--the Union is installing a system of push-buttons and bell-hops...
...should like to throw some light on the "callous disinterest" shown by the members of the Junior class toward the elections begun last Tuesday. As members of that "group within the class," evidently comprising a large percentage, we frankly admit that our next class officers mean absolutely nothing to us personally...