Word: blame
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college powers are to blame for this state of affairs, but we, the students, are also to be censured because we do not take interest enough to demand electives in American history. It cannot be denied that every young American should have more than a school knowledge of his country's history. To disregard it shows a want of pride in our native land and a lack of appreciation of, our ancestors whose trials and labors made us what...
...question of the use of the tennis courts on Holmes and Jarvis has been a much debated one. The Tennis Association, to whom the college naturally looked for a solution of the problem, has incurred much blame through its apparent inactivity. This inactivity has, however, been due to the impossibility of reaching any satisfactory decision as to the disposal or use of the courts. Last year the executive committee of the association drew up a plan, which they laid before the corporation, requesting to be given authority to dispose of the ground devoted to tennis in accordance with the plan...
...fault to find with him. On the contrary, the crew ought to blame itself and be blamed by the whole class for not having chosen a coach at least a month before the race. It is absolutely impossible for a coach to pick out the individual faults of eight men in eight days. While he attempts to do so, each man contracts new faults, the time becomes poor, the crew soon begins to feel from the motion of the boat that its rowing is ragged and by no means up to the mark, nervousness sets in, and the consequence...
Most college poetry consists of "grinds on the profs," celebration of athletics, or, last and most popular, love. We can't make fun of our instructors, we are not allowed to, it would not be ladylike. We haven't any crew or ball teams to call forth praise or blame, and we can't write love songs without giving ourselves away. - [Vassar Miscellany...
...once famous William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Va., the alma mater of Jefferson, Marshall, Monroe and Randolph, had only one student last year, and is now closed. That one student quit because he couldn't stand the blame for all the deviltry committed for miles around. - [Post...