Word: carelessly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rumor which has been going the rounds of newspapers in the West that Harvard was suffering from an epidemic of scarlet fever and was liable any day to close her gates for an indefinite period. This report started, of course, as most rumors of the kind do, from some careless remark, or was built by the newspapers into an elaborate story from the simple fact that about a month ago there was one case of scarlet fever in college. We have it on authority that there is not a single case of serious illness in Harvard today, nothing beyond...
...mistake in switching. As a whole, the story is very well written; but it has some minor faults which spoil its full effectiveness, though they do not by any means destroy the interest of the tale. It is not well to attach any great importance to a presumably careless slip, but it is amusing to hear of a dying wife "gazing forth contentedly" at her husband "as a dog looks at a bone...
...cannot go further with the discussion here. It is a pity that a member of the University should give to the world so careless and unscientific a statement of affairs, especially when he shows by two or three passages in his work that he is not brainless, and might do better. Some of his ideas are excellent and worthy of attention; we would suggest to him that by his inaccuracy he has defeated his end and done harm rather than good, and that if he is going further with tale writing he will do well to take more time...
...colors would be than when the wool is transferred from the sheep's back to the ready-made suit inside of six months, as is often done in this country. This principle runs through the whole subject of high class clothes. In the second place, never affect the careless in dress. Literary men are often inclined to do this to show their disregard of conventionalities. Though one should never be a "clothes loving man," as Carlyle calls the "Dandy;" still you owe it to your friends and to your position in society to conform to the customs of refined society...
...colors would be than when the wool is transferred from the sheep's back to the ready-made suit inside of six months, as is often deno in this country. This principle runs through the whole subject of high class clothes. In the second place, never affect the careless in dress. Literary men are often inclined to do this to show their disregard of conventionalities. Though one should never be a "clothes loving man," as Carlyle calls the "Dandy;" still you own it to your friends and to your position in society to conform to the customs of refined society...