Word: thoughtless
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...compliance, by their own firing very effectively spurred the freshmen on to a lack of restraint which was ungracious in the extreme. That their behavior may have the effect of removing all class games to Soldiers Field is an argument against it which will appeal most strongly to the thoughtless leaders of the disturbance. The most sensible and serious of the class already condemn it on better grounds...
...request which the Class Day Committee makes of seniors with regard to being measured for caps and gowns, should not pass unheeded. Each year the committee has been very much troubled by the dilatoriness of the men in the class, for which there is apparently no excuse but a thoughtless disregard of the convenience of others. It is high time that college men began to realize how unbecoming is the lack of consideration they show towards those whom they have elected to positions of responsibility...
...threatens to become ominous for college interests. It is to be supposed that some premature removals will be made by men who are regardless of all other interests than their own, but we fear that lately other men have committed the offense who are not regardless, but simply thoughtless. If such men once look at the matter frankly, they must see its real import and relegate it to sneaks...
...came to Harvard in 1860, when forty-nine years of age. His reputation was established, and his powers at their prime. He was a simple, unpretentious preacher, with none of the graces of the pulpit, and, judged superficially, he was not the man to draw the thoughtless element in the college. But his greatness soon made itself felt. In his words, was a sincerity which made the students give heed. A wisdom that made them believe, and a gentleness that made them love...
...attraction,' he says, 'of unconscious holiness is of an urgent and inevitable nature, it persuades the weak, the timid, the wavering, and the inquiring; it draws forth the affection and loyalty of all who are in a measure like-minded; and over the thoughtless or perverse multitude it exercises a sovereign, compulsory sway, bidding them fear and keep silence, on the ground of its own right Divine to rule them. And for that select number who feel themselves, as it were, individually addressed by the invitation of his example: 'By degrees they would discern more and more the traces...