Word: carelessly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...columns of our esteemed humorous contemporary, Freshmen are ordinarily pictured as careless and irresponsible, while Seniors are dubbed dignified and hardworking. Yet it seems to us that fully as many men are shiftless and ineffective in their last College year as in their first. After three years of undergraduate work, most Seniors have their degrees within easy reach. They have tried the athletics which attract them, and unless they have already "made good," their natural tendency is to drop out of further competition. This same disinclination to undergo any additional work is equally true of other lines of endeavor; scholastic...
...communication was because, in his opinion, it was a refutation of a point not raised in another communication by G. E. J., and therefore hardly pertinent to the controversy. Moreover, E. W. Wescott and the editors of the Monthly, who are of course directly responsible for this inexcusably careless misstatement of facts never even took the trouble to interview the president about this grossly misreported conversation. This obviously slanderous criticism is unfortunately too characteristic of the Monthly's whole method of attack to require further notice...
...match between C. S. Cutting '12 and E. H. Whitney '14 was the closest of the day. Whitney won the first set comparatively easy at 6-3. The second set, however, went to Cutting, who showed an improvement in form, while Whitney was rather careless. In the third set, Whitney braced and ran out the set and match, allowing his opponent but three games...
...student a positive standard of education, and the setting up of that standard alone is of inestimable value. So long as he is told that any sixteen courses are, in the opinion of the college authorities, equivalent to any others, it is natural that he should often be careless in their choice, and that he should seek the path of least resistance. But when he is given a standard he is likely to feel a stronger motive for working not perfunctorily but well...
...many men have done so. However, for the great majority of undergraduates the change must prove a notable gain. "So long as the student is told that any 16 courses are, in the opinion of the College authorities, equivalent to any others, it is natural he should often be careless in their choice, and that he should seek the path of least resistance...