Word: blame
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Clyde Augustus Duniway opened the negative for Harvard and affirmed the real practical nature of the question. He admitted that evils do exist, but denied the efficacy of the method proposed in the question. He then presented opinions of many prominent city officials and laid the blame to the neglect of the well to do citizens. The point followed that a property qualification would not awaken these better classes to any better sense of their duty to their city and its welfare...
...College and the Scientific School made a particular request that the rules laid down by the team captains should be observed by all runners on the avenue; yet this request has been so far unheeded that complaints at the office are still frequent. The men who are to blame for this are very seriously to blame. They show a harmful lack of consideration which is utterly inexcusable. No gentleman should feel himself at liberty to profit by neglecting a request with which his fellows whose interests are like his own comply, especially when his neglect is likely to endanger...
...which should find most favor in the eyes of college men: "Let college matches be college matches, for college people, on college grounds." We do not believe that this suggests too extreme a restriction. The publicity which has hitherto attended all collegiate football, has been in part to blame for the abuses which have crept into the game, and wholly to blame for the unnatural position which it now occupies. There has been too great a pressure brought upon the college man to make him forget that his athletic sports are intended for his own recreation and benefit...
...little about the subject, has severely frowned on the present system. The "student body" has almost unhesitatingly declared against the long examinations held twice a year. The opinion of the Faculty shows an emphatic tendency towards doing away with mid-years and finals. Our professors are constantly heaping blame on examinations as being a "barbarous survival;" Dr. James tells his classes that, psychologically considered, the present system of necessary semi-annual "cramming" could not be worse; about one-fifth of the midyears have actually been done away with, and all admit that grading on six or eight hour examinations...
...speech of Mr. Green which is printed in another column brings out one point which can not be too strongly insisted on. The rules of football can not be held to blame for the abuses which are the chief cause of outcry against the game today, and the final remedy for these abuses is accordingly not to be sought in any amendment of the rules. This does not mean that no such amendment should be attempted: far from it. Much may unquestionably be done by a strict enforcement of more severe rules, to prevent the recurrence of the most objectionable...