Word: blame
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most recent instance of theft is the disappearance of a number of overcoats that have been found in pawn shops. The guilty persons have not yet been apprehended, but it is such cases that are never lost sight of by Yard police until the blame is fin ally and irrevocably fixed. Another case against which there is a general warning is that of a negro who is peddling cigars about the rooms. The cigars, it turns out, are consistently smuggled. The peddler of the articles will be taken into custody as soon as his whereabouts is reported...
...colleges are giving valuable business training. This is scarcely in accord with Mr. Bok, who stated in the same magazine last summer that good business men avoid college graduates until they have had time to have foolish ideals and ideas knocked from their heads. And this article does not blame the college for the fools that sometimes graduate from it. Mr. Draper, the author of the recent article, has taken the trouble to get actual facts from a number of prominent industrial executives. This is more than most critics of the college have done; and the result is that...
...corrected account in a much more prominent place than the erroneous one and with much more attractive headlines. It is our duty to say that the original mistake was purely accidental and undesigned. The Herald deserves rather thanks for correcting it when news value had left the item than blame for printing the mistaken story...
...latter development of the agitation seems to come nearer the root of the matter than has any before it. The concensus of opinion, if there was any concensus at all, of the letters which followed Mr. Bok's attack on colleges in the Outlook last summer was that the blame for poor English lay, not with the colleges directly, but with the preparatory and even grammar schools. It is true that it was generally believed that colleges were tending to encourage other studies at the expense of English, but, as far as the principles of English technique were concerned...
...blame Freshmen for not attending Chapel, for a secret feeling is instilled into them that it is "not the thing to do." We do blame the upperclassmen who allow this feeling to take root. Whether or not they know it, they are continually setting the standards towards which new classes will strive, and what they taboo new students will taboo. Originality is not so prevalent as some may think and is frequently snubbed when met. And so it rests with the serious-minded upperclassmen, particularly the men who have made good in the College world, to most...