Word: blame
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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While the reasons of the Corporation for tabooing the news stand in the Memorial Transept are now generally appreciated, there is still a tendency to blame the H. D. A. Committee for not allowing Alexander to continue as news agent inside the Hall. As a matter of fact this is not in the power of the Committee. Not only have the Corporation discountenanced a news stand in the Transept, but they have also refused to allow the Association to lease the privilege of selling papers in the Hall...
While we are of the opinion that it is somewhat early to get discouraged about the season's baseball prospects, we still believe that Harvard has a right to expect a better exhibition at any time than that of the nine on Saturday. It is easy to blame the defeat to individual weakness in a single inning, but coming as this did early in the game, it should have proved an incentive to snappy and careful play. The Tufts nine was by no means a strong one, and its lead of four runs in the first inning no insurmountable difficulty...
...system of having the men speak in an order decided by lot prevented rebuttal work, though it was not to blame for the general lack of energy in the speaking...
...themselves, depends on the appointments for sittings being promptly kept. One Senior 's negligence stops the work of engraving on twenty-seven other photographs. The photographs must all be taken by May 1 to complete the Portfolio. Seniors who have not kept their assignment must have only themselves to blame if they find their picture omitted from the album...
...current number of the Monthly opens with a review of "Harvard Episodes" by Pierre La Rose '95. Mr. La Rose endeavors to shift the blame for the harm the book is likely to do the University from Mr. Flandran's shoulders, to those of the publishers. It is indeed unfortunate that the book was not called "Wolcott the Magnificent, and other Harvard Episodes," as it is said the author desired...