Word: thoughtlessness
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...sympathize with, something to pity, something to love. Many a time It shudders over the fearful blunders which cause a life-time's regret that might be averted with but a single word from It. Often It sees two lives that might make one, gradually becoming estranged through trifling, thoughtless error. Then, indeed, It forces open its cold lips to shriek the needed warning. Alas! how vain such efforts are! Have you not, on some winter night, when you were rushing along through the driving snow, been startled by a low, mournful wail? Have you not felt inclined to stop...
...rise in the price of board at Memorial is not owing wholly to a rise in the price of provisions. Though hard to believe, yet it is a fact that the Association is imposed upon by thoughtless, if not unconscientious and dishonorable men in the University. During the recess many took meals there without paying for them, and some were there a week without registering. It is very easy to see how men who have once boarded at Memorial afterwards look upon it as a kind of reserve; but the principle is the same as that...
...opened its mouth and gravely said, 'Gentlemen, it is after nine o'clock, and you are keeping me awake; I must therefore warn you to make less noise,' and then disappeared. 'It's your proctor,' yelled the company, - we broke up in disgust. A short time afterwards, I was thoughtless enough to permit a little singing in my room; the head again appeared, and I got a public the next day. It was just the same the whole year, so I resolved to change my room...
...students, and I go to read it; but I find only the uninteresting part of the paper left. One hundred and fifty men follow after me, and all meet with the same disappointment that I have met with. Each one goes to the news-stand and buys what some thoughtless or unscrupulous fellow has stealthily robbed from the rest of the members of the Reading-Room Association...
...second objection, it is true, is a weak one, but still is an objection. Unreflecting people might be apt to think that the presence of a base-ball suit in the Hall showed that the wearer had come directly from the ball field. Of course none but very thoughtless people would ever think so, but still their feelings deserve to be considered...