Word: blame
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...selfishness, but I certainly think there is some reason for such a charge, for there are plenty of men well able to bear the expenses of the trip, who intend to stay in Cambridge and let their team win if it can. They may at least know whom to blame, if their team is beaten...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Now that matters about the library are under discussion, there is one thing, the blame of which cannot be laid to the "obstinacy" of the corporation was to anybody besides the men themselves. A number of books, few enough at best, are reserved for outside reading in each course. These books are arranged each morning on the shelves of the library in a systematic way so that a man has no difficulty whatever in finding any book he wants. But before an hour has passed whoever wants a book must search every shelf, table and corner...
...beaten by Yale, there will be others beside freshmen to deserve the blame...
...conveniences for athletic practice, succumbs as a matter of course to colleges which have neither its size nor its advantages. Defeat is always a disgrace, and in calling the position of Harvard in athletics disgraceful, one is not using a word that is a whit too strong. Can the blame be located? The captains of the university teams, we are certain, did their best and devoted themselves heartily to the work they had in hand. The base-ball material at the opening of last season seemed most unpromising and yet Harvard made a strong showing, owing principally to the energy...
...communication which we publish to-day in regard to the finances of the University crew gives evidence of careful consideration on the part of the writer. The items of expense which he brings to notice most assuredly need examination. The boat club is not so much to blame in this matter as the system which has come into use. The trouble in the case undoubtedly lies in a lack of that kind of activity which is so requisite in matters of finance. The business of the treasurers of the boat club has become a routine which is vicious on account...