Word: careless
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...custom of making the rank list for the Senior year a part of the Commencement programme was given up last year. This change is on every account to be regretted. It makes many Seniors who do not aspire to a high general average careless about their success in any particular course. Still worse, it leaves all faithful work in any particular course unrewarded; and the new system of Honorable Mention will not remedy this evil in most cases, - in such courses, for instance, as are not preceded by enough hours in the same branch to make up the required eight...
...water; it is more exciting than milk, and not so strong as ginger ale, and you may take it without fear of inconvenience. If you have any practice in such things, you may take a mild cigarette (those used for catarrh are very innocent), and it may induce the careless outsider to take you for a Sophomore...
...careless indolence sublime...
...WRITER in the last Crimson has attacked the new system of honors on the ground that the value of honors will be much diminished, and that the amount of "true scholarship," as distinguished from studying for marks and honors, will also be much diminished. Even the most careless reading of the article shows an inconsistency in the writer's position; for if, as he asserts, the new honors "will rouse as much excitement as the list of Bachelors of Arts," it is extremely unlikely that these worthless honors will be such unusually strong inducements to work as to "double...
...whose careless tenderness, half feigned...