Word: blame
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...blame does not rest entirely on the freshmen. The men who took it upon themselves forcibly to prevent the entrance of the procession into the Hall are quite as much to blame. If these men had been content not to interfere in what was not their business, and to wait for the action of the officers of the Hall, there would have been no trouble, and the incident would have resolved itself into a mere indiscretion due to inexperience on the part of the freshmen...
When the crisis came he met it gloriously. In 1823 he sailed for Greece, in three months restored order and died of the fever, far beyond the blame of Britain or the praise of Greece...
...general training table is in itself good, but we are not at all prepared to deny that there were faults innate in the plan pursued last year which made success for that time, with whatever management, impossible. The CRIMSON particularly desires, therefore, not to be understood as prematurely casting blame upon the management of last year, or upon any member of it. But we think it a matter of importance that the college should have as early an opportunity as possible of judging of the whole matter...
...long as the accounts of the University Training Table Association remain unpublished there must of course remain considerable difficulty in settling the exact cause of the debt incurred by it. At the same time it seems probable that far too much blame is put on the shoulders of the treasurer by the public. He is the only person at present intimately connected with the affairs of the Association and adverse criticism of any kind on the Association in general seems to fall on him. There seems to have been no centralizing of the entire management of the affairs...
...Norah's Excuse" is a life-like reminiscence told in the Irish dialect. No blame certainly attaches to a man who is not a master of dialect and who does not pretend to be. It is the writer who attempts to use a dialect which he has not thoroughly mastered who lays himself open to just criticism. And assuredly the substitution of "i" for "e," and the occasional use of "me" for "my" do not constitute good Irish dialect, - the author of "Norah's Excuse" to the contrary, not withstanding. A study of the masters of the Irish dialect...