Word: heedless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think this strange. It is necessarily connected with our growth. Probably nowhere on this planet can a thousand young men be found between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four who will not show examples of the heedless, the temptable, and the depraved. Let us not, then, shrink from acknowledging the ugly fact, extravagance is here-shameless, coarse extravagance...
...earnest-minded students will have, the guidance of parents and teachers, the restrictions and suggestions of the college authorities, and the presumed readiness of college instructors to give personal advice in the matter, it may seem as though the chance of going astray were pretty well limited to the heedless, the capricious, and the wrong-headed, who can hardly be induced by any means to go right. But really there are many well meaning fellows of sixteen to twenty-four who, with the best of purposes and wishes, are not competent to judge of the lines of study best...
Stevens played a very courageous game (with four substitutes against the Yale 'Varsity eleven complete save one), but without judgment or discipline; the quarter-back was very heedless - at least once he was not looking when the ball was snapped back to him; the most brilliant individual plays therefore, availed nothing for Stevens. The score was 54 to 0. The game was watched with keen interest by several intending adversaries of Yale. - N. Y. Evening Post...
...Boston. The trouble originates with members of the college, and not outside. A large fence is erected at much cost, and policemen in uniform stand at the entrances to exclude the unauthorized from entering. It is the members of the college who are responsible for what follows. Many heedless men give away class-day tickets as convenient fees to their waiters, or their barber, or their goody. These people throng the yard and pass by unchallenged, for their ticket authorizes them to go through. For men of this stamp to bring companions in with them is only of too frequent...
...thoroughfares in New Haven, and offers to the members of the higher classes many of the advantages of a well-situated club house. The freshmen, the other day, after beating the sophomores by four to three at a game of base-ball, raided this fence and sat upon it, heedless of the indefensible unusualness of the act, and of the feelings of the sophomores, who tried to sit there at the same time. The newspaper report of the transaction says that six or seven of the sophomores were dragged over the fence and "shirted," from which...