Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I confess that after all, we have heard about electing a systematic course of study, the elective pamphlet of '87 came as a blow in my face. Brackets have been employed and hours changed in the most reckless fashion. History 9 and English 6 given up, the hour of History 11 changed! I shall now be forced to elect Music 13 and other courses I know in advance to be worthless. True, I am only an individual, and it does not matter much to the college or the world if my education is spoiled...
...Leipsic University, a few years ago, the socialistic element was particularly strong. German Socialists, Russian Nihilists, and bold radical spirits from Poland, Roumania, and other countries of Europe, composed a strange and reckless company in the heart of the university. A young American, of extremely radical views, entered the university at about this time, and it was his fortune to meet in daily intercourse the most extreme socialistic and nihilistic section. B - , as his name may be called, had determined to earn his own living for the first year, and, as a result, he soon found himself in the Convictorium...
...broken arm, caused by falling on the ice, and Professor Sumner, of Yale, in the ditto with a ditto, caused by falling off a bicycle. It is high time the students held a meeting to consider how far it is safe to allow the faculty to go in their reckless love of manly sports. - Elmira Advertiser...
Last year the serenity of one of the entries of Thayer was suddenly disturbed by a violent explosion, which, on examination, proved to have been caused by a large cannon-cracker which some reckless student had fastened to the door of one of the rooms and then ignited. Although there was some ground for this outrage, the victim of the assault being a musical friend, the perpetrators were severely censured by the college for the folly and childishness of their act, and it was hoped that such an affair would never be repeated. Wednesday night, however, some miscreants, for they...
...they are very slow about lining up. None of them seem to have any idea about blocking off the other side when their own half backs make a rush, and when a rusher does get the ball, he generally loses it, either when he is tackled, or by reckless passing. There is plenty of passing done, altogether too much in fact, for the chief idea of the man with the ball seems to be to throw the ball away when he is caught, in the vain hope of one of his own side getting it; but of good backing...