Word: calloused
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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...
...graduates are always welcomed, for they see in us a memory, however slight of that which they once were. Although they are sure that in the golden mirage of their youth they were never so callous, nor so ignorant, nor so self-satisfied. And so, in mutual reflection and compassion we shall meet each other...
...fulfill the Maker's order, How especially I hate you when I sing!" will awake answering chords not only in the bosoms of his undergraduate fellow-sufferers, but even in the supposedly callous heart of many an unappreciated faculty adviser...
...truly that he has never been offered a share in this inter-course. All of us have had some opportunity, some flash of Paul's vision, but too often we have let it slip past. And with every such opportunity lost, our natures become more callous, less open to these appeals. Paul seized his chance and made of it the inspiration for a grand life; we should do the same, remembering that the only useful life is that which has in it the realization of a high purpose bestowed...