Word: blame
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...long time. The conference is given by the Athletic Committee because it has been represented to them that there is this desire for information in the college. They come to Sever 11 to be of service to the students, and nobody but the students themselves can be to blame if they are not. If any man has questions to ask or doubts to solve he should go to the meeting tonight and have them settled. The Athletic Committee gives evidence that it comes in the right spirit. It desires to stand in a clear light before the college, and this...
...were friends of the manager found no difficulty in buying as many as twenty-five tickets, and one junior bought one hundred and sixty-one. The result was that the tickets were soon gone from the co-operative store. The foot ball management is receiving a great deal of blame from the students, who claim that they have been treated far from fairly...
...estimates. If that is the case, the estimates must have been made without due care. We are loath to lay the charge of mismanagement upon any one or all of the executors of the scheme; yet, when a perfectly feasible plan utterly fails, there is certainly a deal of blame to be attached somewhere...
...world. The trouble is that people try to judge themselves and past generations by the standards which they have made for themselves, and which are, accordingly, sure to be misleading. It is not difficult for a man to find fault with the deeds of his ancestors and to blame them, on the ground that every evil thought and action had transmitted its effect to him. But it does not so often happen that this man realizes how careful he should be himself to try to counteract the evil influence he may have inherited and to take good care...
...culprits who committed the outrage. To go back upon this action would be to prove ourselves insincere. Our expressions of condemnation will have no weight if we are unwilling to act upon them. If we refuse to have the culprits exposed we must bear part of the blame, and our words of yesterday will have little meaning. We ought to have no sympathy for rascals whom we have so strongly denounced. They have shown themselves to be unworthy of Harvard and the college has no place for them...