Word: thoughtlessness
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...women are the ephemeral and trifling evils of every society. The wiser men pass these young beggars scornfully by, push them meaningly out of the way; or stop sometimes to tell them just what little gamins they are to beg in the street. But there are many who are thoughtless enough to encourage their efforts with an extra coin, for back they come in every growing numbers to plead for what they have no right to expect. Not only is this becoming an extreme annoyance to the residents of Mount Auburn Street, but, far more important, it is laying...
Ancestors of the newt, the polliwog, the lizard and the water-snake, thoughtless creatures that swam in the shallow seas that covered the world in time's twilight until, stranded on limacious, shelving beaches left by those waters as the sun sucked them away, they died and turned to stone . . . enormous land beasts that shouldered through the early jungles of the world or straddled, whinnying, its ice-blistered rocks - the Dinosaurus, the Brontosaurus and the ringstreaked Lehthyornis, strange fowl: these were, last week, loaded tenderly into 40 trucks, moved into the new building of the Peabody Museum at Yale...
...What use is it to spend millions of dollars on scenery and setting," she declared, "when there are no schools of acting?" She cited Yale as an example of such thoughtless prodigality...
...only have books been pilfered from the main reading room, but there have been many cases of mutilation which have reduced materially the value of the books. One thoughtless student, evidently to make his labors in the stacks more comfortable, propped himself up with a big volume, with the result that the back of the book, a valuable reprint of an old Spanish edition, was complete crushed. There have also been several cases of cutting out pictures from books or magazines, some of which will be hard to replace. In fact the situation towards the end of last year...
...compulsory attendance at classes?" Among thoughtless students and hasty enthusiasts, as well as among those sincerely interested in college problems, that query has grown daily more frequent. The prospect of a college without monitors seems now like a utopian vision; yet other institutions have been known to survive without them, and the idea of making attendance voluntary has not only been considered here already, but has been put to an actual test at least once during the last half century...