Word: thoughtlessly
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...Library room could be kept open until eleven-thirty o'clock it would not only help such men but it would lessen considerably the number of books taken out of the Library overnight. Thoughtless improvements for Widener are easy to suggest; funds are lacking even for well-considered ones. But the remedy in this case is simple and practicable, and the expense seems justified by the number of students whose time and convenience would be served. The History reading-room, on the ground floor, seems the most logical room to keep open. If this room were used, the rest...
...Sophomore officers have taken the best way out of the difficulty. The only solution of the problem lies in frequent informal gatherings in which foreign and local members can mingle without the feeling of being at an official established the thoughtless indifference of the traditional Harvard man will become a myth in fact as well as in name...
...conference considered, incidentally, the part that student opinion can play in any reforms that are to come. The conclusion was reached that undergraduate thought needs only to be unleashed in order to bring about desired reforms, but that at present most of the students are thoughtless, and the inspired ones fear to say what they believe. As a solution, it was urged that every college publication should have a department in which the ideas of any group or individual could be expressed freely, without deference to any authority, faculty or otherwise...
...unfairness", "laxity", "bribery", "corruption", "venality", "nepotism", and "fraud". These terms fly about whenever our thick political mud is stirred by investigation, reform, or election. By a process of association these ideas are inseparably connected. We laugh at humorists who use this condition as a theme, yet it is the thoughtless laughter which reflection stifles...
Important privileges are being daily usurped by an ever growing body of thoughtless students. It is becoming impossible to sleep, not only in one's own room but even in the New Lecture Hall. What justification is there for the man in the row behind who, in going to sleep himself, prevents his neighbors from doing so by his snoring? Nor does he confine himself to disturbing passively his neighbors and the professor. As soon as the bell rings, in fact often a few minutes before, he ostentatiously awakens with loud, prolonged clapping...