Word: unconcerns
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...College treats the affair with seeming unconcern, but the real kicking comes from the officers of the Athletic Association, who know the facts. While willing to concede great liberty to the major teams in the matter of medical attendance, training-tables, expensive outfit and "H" sweaters, they are averse to unbending to the extent of dinners, theatre-parties, pictures, and like unessential. Further, there is really no reason why $5 sweaters should be dealt out wholesale to members of class teams winning their numerals,--teams which play three or four games at the most. Entirely aside from this, there...
...various competitions and practices of athletic teams, particularly in the minor sports, at the rehearsals of plays, and at the meetings of committees, the small attendance often interferes noticeably with the accomplishment of the work at hand, and professional coaches and undergraduate leaders are greatly handicapped by the seeming unconcern of the men under their direction. College men should realize that their engagements are as important in their way as those of the business man, and that they run the risk of forming habits which may be hard to break...
...believe that from those absences which occur at the end of a major sport season the Faculty naturally deduces that such sport to demand such method of recuperation in one of excess. Doubtless they do. But isn't this again an example of ignorance to be traced from unconcern over the success of that season? Here's a simpler explanation of those absences-the debilitation of re-echoing defeat, nothing but defeat! It is a natural time to hide one's light under a bushel. The cry of splendid showing gives no satisfaction. It is a poor thing, though...
...conclusion, one asks why we cannot have more critical articles, more evidence of concern with affairs outside college,--with new books, with music, with politics. Surely, when thoughtful undergraduates meet in clubs or around the midnight fire their discussions have a greater range and a nobler unconcern about mere craftsmanship than is exhibited in these pages
...element of genius in each man which he may possess; it helps each one of us to retain that simple interest in the world and its beauty, in things unconnected with ends, which may serve to rest and sooth us all through life and may keep for us that unconcern, that charming insouciance, which is the glory of the child and the artist...