Word: thoughtlessness
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...that Dr. Hall of New York will take his place. "In the first place," he said, "we have fifty more students at present than ever before, and our standard of scholarship is higher than ever. The only trouble we have had has been the mischief of a few thoughtless freshmen, and they have been punished, and we do not anticipate any repetition of such occurrences...
Many remarks have been made lately concerning the apparent change of tone in the Boston papers toward Harvard students. Last year they were wont to treat every little, thoughtless act with the utmost severity, as if it were premeditated, and were intended to shake the peace of the Commonwealth to its very foundation. Last year the freak of the freshmen at Oscar Wilde's lecture would have made the subject of editorials of the bitterest kind, denouncing not only the sixty "bold, bad men," but also the whole college. They now pass lightly over what last year would have been...
...imitation of European "effeteness." But a correspondent in the last Nation really states the essential points of the argument most clearly. The grounds of the discussion are simple enough, but are too often lost sight of by undiscriminating fathers in choosing between Yale and Harvard, and by thoughtless conservatives generally. This correspondent points out the well-enough recognized fact that the average age of entrance at Harvard now is about the same as that of graduation fifty years ago, and indeed of graduation now from some of the smaller colleges. This brings an entirely new factor into the question which...
PRINCETON, N. J., Dec. 30, 1881. Princeton college has been greatly annoyed at different times since the college year began, by the senseless, and, in some cases, probably thoughtless pranks of her freshmen...
...would say to the thoughtless...