Word: blame
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...blame for this sort of carelessness, whether it be "apparent" or not, can not be laid at the door of any individual. The miserable system, or lack of system, under which the financial arrangements of our athletic organizations are conducted, is the real cause of the whole trouble...
...carried on in a mind other than one's own. We do not believe that our correspondent possesses this insight. If a year ago the seeds of the evil which is now being reaped were sown, it is the oversight not the complicity of the CRIMSON which is to blame, that those seeds were allowed to flourish unheeded. It is all the more unfortunate that to-day the element of fair dealing and manliness in Cambridge is compelled to fight its battle with this evil which now has had a year wherein to fasten its grip upon that fair reputation...
...entire examination period. This is a great injustice. A week would be an ample period of expiation. Then again the present fine of ten cents a day for overdue books is outrageous. In the multiplicity of things which engage a student's attention he is not at all to blame for forgetting the exact day when a book is due. If a book is kept beyond the proper time, a postal shoud be sent, and the delinquent should be fined two cents, one for the postal and one for the clerical labor involved. As things are now, the library seems...
Great injustice has been done to Dr. Sargent by careless statements made by college reporters, in the daily press. We would call our reader's attention to Mr. Garrison's communication in another column, which wholly exonerates Dr. Sargent from any blame in the unexpectedly early return of the lacrosse team to Cambridge. We would also say in regard to the two members of the freshman nine, mentioned in the daily papers, that it was through their own negligence that they were not examined physically, until just before the Yale game, and that they were allowed to play in that...
Accordingly, Harvard "offers greater and better facilities for study, and we can blame only human nature, if parent, guardians and ambitious young men go where they can get the most for their time and money...