Word: heedless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...believe that the punishment is too harsh. A man can never outgrow the stigma attached to his name for an act of dishonesty widely known. However hard he may try to be upright in after life, however far removed from his true character deceit may be, this one heedless act will expose him to the scorn of all the world and will prevent his becoming a useful man. Finding no man who trusts him, his career is doomed in advance to failure. The publishing of his name has branded him for life...
Last evening, in his sixth lecture on Bimetallism, General Walker discussed the International Conference of 1867, which declared in favor of gold monometallism. He condemned the action of this commission as unpractical and heedless. Its action naturally had force in moulding public opinion...
...that go to the making of a man than self-reliance, which well becomes only a strong character on which reliance may confidently be placed, and is therefore unbecoming in young boys, whose characters are necessarily unformed. The boarding school too often developes not true manliness, but rather a heedless independence which is incompatible with it. To put a boy in the way of such development the neglect of higher, is a grave mistake. Self-reliance should not be born of mere freedom from restraint, but of a consciousness of power which can hardly accompany the school boy's immaturity...
...cannot be denied that the freedom from compulsion is unfortunate in one effect. It leaves room for a heedless neglect of opportunity, by which many now deprive themselves of much profit. The eminent character of the officiating ministers in Appleton Chapel, and the consequent privilege of listening to them, seems not to be always appreciated. Only recently it was said of Mr. Crothers that since Phillips Brooks, no man has shown greater depth of spiritual interpretation; yet of the students who neglected to hear him, few probably realized the chance they were throwing away. If this unfortunate heedlessness could...
...have passed on and become nothing but a name. To seniors the six months of college life that remain are but a short time to finish the work for which four years have been devoted, - four years that at the best have been short. To the freshman, unconscious and heedless of the vast field of opportunities spread before him four years seem a long period, but to the senior who has learned by experience those opportunities and who, looking back on them, sees where he has improved them and where he has let them pass, the time seems very short...