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...more delectable women, recreates himself, abandons the women to his soldiers, departs with the lion's share of loot. The women, dragged to the soldiers' camps, are "staked out with ropes and pegs." Such acts -typical of every war-were given scant attention by callous humans last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Passive, Trampled | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...undergone were common to great numbers of college undergraduates it would not be too much to expect a virtual revolution in their political and economic creeds. A summer in a canning factory can cure for a lifetime as well impracticable economic idealism as the more common fault of a callous social conscience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT AND LABORER | 2/5/1926 | See Source »

...whereon football, which died with the abolition of the Freshman-Sophomore "Bloddy Monday" contest, revived 15 years later and gradually grew to vast proportions, hazing never regained a foot, hold in the University, and the Freshmen of today, unlike the callous first year debaters of last year, and thankful accordingly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN THANKFUL FOR LACK OF CLASS HAZING | 11/10/1925 | See Source »

...early December, 1926. These plans conflict directly with a newer tendency of undergraduate opinion in some of the larger Eastern universities, which, while maintaining football in its proper place as a college sport, would oppose the menace of commercialism. Some enthusiastic and short-sighted people, forgetful of or callous to the future of football in American colleges, would prostitute it now to provide an athletic head-liner for the amusement of the multitude at Philadelphia's celebration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MENACE TO FOOTBALL | 10/7/1925 | See Source »

...dramatic critic thoughtless, careless, callous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jun. 8, 1925 | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

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