Word: thoughtless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...means maintain the Harvard spirit of dignity and conservatism,- it affords the best of training,- but do not overdo it; let the thoughtless be more thoughful of others, and the over-sensitive less so. As to clubs, my experience has shown me that there are just as refined, manly men outside of clubs as in them, and in one club as another; such organizations could use their influence as well to establish and maintain an esprit du corps of all the students as to gain advatage exclusively for themselves...
...right whatever to injure and deface property not his own. And no man would mark up a book borrowed from an individual if he expected ever to borrow another from the same person. It is the doing of a comparatively small number of men who are thoughtless, or careless of the rights of others,- some of whom may be in the habit of annotating and marking their own books. The difficulty is that, so many evidences of the practice existing, men assume that it is a harmless and common custom. A general disapproval of the practice would do away with...
...that was said and done last winter with regard to students running up Massachusetts Avenue for exercise, such a communication as that which we publish this morning from Professor Beale should now be absolutely unnecessary. That it is not shows that many members of the University are exceedingly thoughtless, or are entirely without any sense of honor. For the sake of the good name of the University we trust that the former is the case. For several years the people of Cambridge were annoyed by having the students use the sidewalks for their exercise, and last year the annoyance became...
...This is what the Dean says has been done away with, and the change is a gratifying one. Every action that is taken to discourage men from entering college without any serious intention of getting an education, but simply for the pleasure that is to be gained from a thoughtless college life, tends to raise the standard of work and to add to the reputation of the University...
Yale has recently won much undesirable and undue notoriety from the thoughtless remarks of a woman reformer as to its moral character, which, at least, holds its own with that of other universities. Press comments have cesured the reformer rather than the object of her wrath...