Word: heedless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dormitories in the yard is absolutely at the mercy of the men around him. As the weakest link in a chain must be taken as the measure of its strength, so must the safety of a hundred students be computed on the basis of the habits of the most heedless in their number. A carelessly built fire; a thoughtless oversight of an open gas jet; either cause may send the CRIMSON into black leads for a dozen ives needlessly thrown away. Nor can all the blame be laid upon a single man if the fire that must yet come pens...
...studies, as well as the abandonment of discipline, is the natural outgrowth of the raised standard of our better colleges, and it should go hand in hand with the upward extension of the college course." But, as this writer says, the great difficulty is to get parents and the heedless public to recognize the great difference between American universities like Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia, and colleges like most of our immature Western sisters; and because of this these institutions are continually retarded in their progress and growth...
...before he had taken many steps this feeling began to yield to the sudden admiration he conceived for Tue. In truth, though prouder beauties might for the moment eclipse her, one who could see her at her best would not prefer the favor of the gayer fair. Ching sat heedless of the flight of time, until he at last looked up and saw Mnag returning. He had now no reason for consulting the philosopher; he therefore took a rather incoherent leave of the girl, and started for his home...