Word: blame
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eighty-eight does not send at least an even half-hundred men to New Haven, she can blame no one but herself if her nine fails to keep the Yale freshmen from their coveted fence. The only hope for the game rests on the best efforts of the nine, supported by the steady cheering of a strong delegation of their classmates...
Upon further investigation of the unfortunate occurrence which marred the Yale Harvard freshman game of last Saturday, we have come to the conclusion that the blame rests about equally upon both the parties concerned. We now take the opportunity to remind the freshmen that honorable and the gentlemanly playing has been the characteristic of all Harvard teams in the past, and must continue to be so in the future...
...game was unfortunate, at least half the class should have put in an appearance. The nine has played two remarkably good games, and has shown that it can do itself and the class credit. If it fails to win victories in the future for want of proper support, the blame must be laid entirely on the class. Eighty-eight is a little too indifferent even for Harvard, the reputed home of indifference...
...spirit of fault-finding and exaggeration, which to some extent probably accounts for the evident lack of facts contained in this communication. The work of a photographic committee is notoriously disagreeable. Complaints will always arise as it is impossible to satisfy everybody, and of course all the blame is laid upon the committee, or upon the photographer. No blame is ever for a moment placed upon the man who neglects time and time again to arrange a sitting, and then finally goes in the last few days when there is always a rush for such as he, and complains because...
...strongest work. Mr. Wendell's romance has been called the "most powerful and original that has been produced in America since Hawthorne;" "as a piece of literary workmanship, almost perfect." The reviewers have suffered only from dearth of words in which to express this enthusiasin, and the slight blame which they throw in seems to be rather a propitiatory offering to justice than an honest belief in the existence of faults. The fact is that the book has many faults. As a "piece of literary workmanship" it is far from perfect; the book abounds in inharmonious and loosely-constructed sentences...