Word: careful
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...year will not check these evils; they cannot make up for the want of a weekly and daily training, and without such training they are liable to the fatal evil of cramming. Moreover, if attendance on recitations is voluntary, instructors will content themselves with giving lectures, and will care little whether their pupils receive benefit...
...hard for any one so free from care as a College student, to cast aside the pleasant habit of indifference. Without even his own support to provide for, with no one dependent upon him, with few rules the breaking of which will entail any serious penalty, he gets to look at the outside world as something rather amusing, a little vulgar, and not at all connected with himself. There are, of course, the usual number of exceptions to prove the rule. We have, in embryo, doctors who sharply detect disease in the unconscious passer-by, who prefer the attractions...
...Care and kittens must both be drowned...
...knew a dun once. He came, I think, from some coal-office in the distant Port. He was the most affable dun that ever made out a bill. He did not seem to care so much for his money as for the pleasure of my society. I have known him come into my room, fill his brier-wood pipe from my jar of green seal, seat himself comfortably before the fire of his own coal, and enter into lively conversation with me on politics, literature, or art. His pipe out, he would take his departure with never a word...