Word: blame
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consequence is that nearly everyone who wishes to reach the fields by this path walks on the grass by the side, and will soon tramp it down so that next spring the appearance of that part of the grounds will be careless and unfelt. We cannot blame the students for preferring soft grass to dusty gravel walks. The college authorities should have the paths watered and rolled so as to be fit for use and in this way prevent the passers-by from wearing down the grass...
...their good fortune to do so in spite of their meeting and not because of it. A more disorderly and riotous gathering was never held here, and, while some of the disturbance was undoubtedly due to the upper class men, still, by far the greater part of the blame rests on the freshman class. The methods of wardroom politics cannot advantageously be introduced into class meetings, and we hope the incoming freshman classes may have the good sense to avoid all such foolishness...
...three times as much work in one course as in the other, and this not depending on his own special fitness for either course, but because of the amount of work which has come to be expected in each course, and the standard of marking which prevails. No blame can be attached to any instructor when the standard of his course has once become established. Naturally enough no one of them believes that his standard of marking is too easy, when the average marks of his course are no higher than the average in other courses; and even...
...devote only so much time to athletic sports as in the judgement of the authorities can be devoted profitably. In colleges where the students are left to lay out their own time, if their studies are neglected because of too great attention to athletics, they alone are to blame, just as they alone are to blame if they give too much time to card-playing or to the theatre, or to many other attractions that-innocent in themselves and even beneficial-are known to interfere with a high position on the rank list...
...very few lists have yet been sent in. The committee wish it fully understood that all lists must be handed in before April 3d, to ensure getting the pictures by Class Day. Those men who do not send in their lists before the spring recess have only themselves to blame, if their orders do not come, for Mr. Pach has declared plainly that he cannot promise to fill belated orders before commencement...