Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Something exists: however reckless and extravagant this statement seems, let us accept it provisionally and term that something ourselves. Man is a compound of a material part called the body, and an intangible part called the soul. The facts about the body are simple; the soul being invisible is only assumed to exist, first through its apparent effects, secondly through self-consciousness. There is but one form of self-consciousness to which we are not passive; we may feel pain or sensation, but we never say that we feel the will. It is always subjective and active...
Professor Cary compared the advanced and enterprising methods of forest training and restocking in Germany, where the timber lands are, for the most part, owned and controlled by the government, with the reckless and destructive methods adopted in this country. In Germany the forests are continually watched by trained and highly educated men and, in certain districts, the future growths are rockoned for 150 years in the future. The lack of foresight displayed in this country offers great opportunities for technically trained men who are willing to sacrifice physical comforts to the hardy life of a forester...
...reporter for the "Howl" C. N. Eaton '08 Vandeventer Parks, a stock manipulator S. Crowell '09 Selum Short, a broker H. B. Sheahan '09 Francis Parks, daughter of Vandeventer Parks R. D. Murphy '08 Estrella Flushing, hotel clerk and stenographer L. M. Potter '08 Bell-boys at Hotel St. Reckless J. R. Benton '08 S. T. Bittenbender '09 P. C. Haskell...
...exist but it is a pity to have the idea of them rubbed in through the columns of the undergraduate papers. Both stories are well written; but they lead the uniformed reader to suppose that Harvard men spend their lives in an atmosphere, not morely of hilarity, but of reckless dissipation. "The Philosophy of Horatio" is almost well enough done to be justifiable: but "A Fake Play" has the fundamental weakness of being didactic without being clear. The third prose article, "Tactics for Teas," is amusing and entirely harmless; but it is too slight to prevent the prose...
...again tied the score in the sixth inning. McCall singled and took second on Dennie's error. Simons reached second on an error by Elrod on which McCall scored. Harvey was safe on an error by the same man, and with Greene at bat, he and Simons worked a reckless double steal...