Word: shiftlessness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...columns of our esteemed humorous contemporary, Freshmen are ordinarily pictured as careless and irresponsible, while Seniors are dubbed dignified and hardworking. Yet it seems to us that fully as many men are shiftless and ineffective in their last College year as in their first. After three years of undergraduate work, most Seniors have their degrees within easy reach. They have tried the athletics which attract them, and unless they have already "made good," their natural tendency is to drop out of further competition. This same disinclination to undergo any additional work is equally true of other lines of endeavor; scholastic...