Word: thoughtlessness
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...essential in order that the work of these officers can be effectively performed that these two blanks be filled out and returned at the earliest opportunity. In the past Class Secretaries have been seriously handicapped because of thoughtless and unnecessary delay on the part of certain of their class-mates in complying with this request. It is in order to avoid a similar experience that the Class Committee is making this early appeal. Only the hearty co-operation of the entire class in this matter will make it possible for the officers to do their work successfully...
...request of the Library Committee, who feel it to be necessary in some way to put a stop to the taking of books. The library is run for the benefit of all students who are members of the Union, and it seems inconceivable that anyone could be so thoughtless of the rights of others as to take away a book. Yet the fact remains that annually some sixty or seventy books are removed from the shelves and are not returned...
...undergraduate circles everywhere there is apt to be a large amount of thoughtless denunciation of the rival college, for no other reason than that it is the rival college. Graduates are the men who seem most appreciative of the good qualities of the side to which they do not belong; they usually take the trouble to find out what the rival's claims to greatness are. Undergraduates are far too apt--especially during the heat of an athletic season--to attribute anything but virtue to the members of the sister institution...
...whole lends support to the movement. When this number is looked at without comparison it appears large, but, if it is considered in connection with the student body as a whole, it is remarkably small. With over 4000 graduate and undergraduate students in the University, it seems rather, thoughtless and selfish that scarcely more than one-fifteenth should be willing to devote an hour or two a week to work which does so much unquestionable good...
...pretty much as he pleases at all hours of the day and night. During the spring months in particular, the noise and disturbance throughout the night become so annoying that sleep is often almost impossible. The various men in training have issued unavailing pleas for quiet, but the criminally thoughtless rioters have continued their noise unchecked...