Word: blame
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whole give very fair accounts of doings here, while Yale is represented at home by very provincial publications, and New York is just far enough away to allow the news to become mixed in transition. But we also think that our Yale friends are in themselves partly to blame. The News, at least, is frequently guilty of great exaggeration, and of occasional misstatements, and if these are allowed to happen at home, they cannot find much fault if deceptive reports of their doings appear in the outside press...
...through misdirection or carelessness, that the wrong letters are left in a man's room, where they remain for a number of days without any effort on the part of the receiver to return them to the post office or to their rightful owner. We do not intend to blame the postman who discharges his duties in a perfectly satisfactory manner. When, however, we think of the large amount of mail which passes daily through his hands, there is little wonder that occasionally letters find their way into the wrong rooms. Besides, as we have said above, the letters...
...Knapp on the condition of the boat house at the time of the accident. Mr. Knapp finds several faults, each of which contributed to bring about the disaster,-some of which an examination would have shown, and some not. Neither the club nor the college seems to be to blame in particular, although we must confess it seems to us quite unsatisfactory to learn that, when a little careful investigation would have saved us from the accident, it was not made. That no one knew such an investigation was needed cannot possibly be an excuse ; it ought to have been...
...bringing about the present "degeneracy" of the practice. The popular cheer and the college cheer are essentially distinct. If the good people of this country choose to conform the style of their hurrahs more or less to the fashions set by the colleges, surely the latter are not to blame. The form of cheering adopted by any college is its distinctive possession and invaluable birthright. The practice forms one of the most cherished of college customs, and he who would attempt to stamp it out is but a tyrant and an innovator, whose conduct could only arouse abhorrence...
...deny is truly demoralizing. We are not aware that as yet any satisfactory remedy for it has been suggested. Indeed, it is a very serious question whether in the nature of the case there is any remedy possible, and whether the marking system itself is not to blame for the results. That the marking system is in itself essentially unjust and impracticable in any liberal educational system is an opinion that is already largely held and steadily growing. Moreover, it is our opinion that the present form of the marking system in use at Harvard is the very worst form...