Word: blame
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...football team, crew, or nine, which was so promising a few weeks before, starts for New London or New Haven in an apparently hopeless condition. At this point it might be parenthetically stated that the cause of the commotion is himself considered to be very little to blame. Let us proceed one stage further. Suppose that a substitute on any major sport squad breaks training. At once it is whispered about and the man is disgraced. Indeed, such incidents are so rare that nowadays we seldom if ever hear of them. These three cases represent the facts. From them several...
...this point the continuous procession of teams and automobiles raised a dust which for density would put a Newfoundland fog to shame. To compel five thousand spectators to penetrate this cloud is not only a disgrace, but a menace to the public health. Without attempting to place the blame, we trust that in the future arrangements can be made to sprinkle Boylston Street several time before the inevitable traffic begins. A repetition of Saturday's nuisance will hardly be tolerated...
...criticism of the players, little can be written that does not savor of either praise or blame. Duncan and Bennett managed to fan 23-2 of all the batters who faced them while Gregg was treated to singles by de Windt and Blackall, doubles by Blackall and de Windt, a triple by lil' Arthur Sweetser, and one smoking, sizzling, home run by Storey. Grinnell alone of the we-were-a-jokes could look a baseball in the face again without blushing...
...obvious disadvantages, when student opinion is confessedly so rotten, or so puerile, as to make a general reformation in this respect the object of desperate experiment. It may be seriously questioned, however, whether inefficient or insufficient proctoring, like inefficient or insufficient police, is not the most to blame for lawlessness...
Though, of course, men who fall to take notes are chiefly to blame for their delinquency, still because the means to obviate this condition of affairs are so simple, it would seem, perhaps, that the Faculty had some share of the responsibility in the matter. At present there are but few courses which require lecture notes. If this simple requirement were made general it would involve no hardship for the serious student, and it would confer on many the very real benefits that accrue to those who take adequate lecture notes...