Word: blame
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...setting them at the spelling book. Mr. Booker Washington's level-headed work in coaxing them back to manual labor is praiseworthy in the extreme. Granting the negro his freedom instantaneously was a mistake, but above all the mistake of granting them the right to vote is to blame for the present lamentable condition of the black race...
...care. There seems to be nothing much in the pleasures of mere physical exercise. But rowing would become popular if the men knew that the winning crew were to be given their oars or some silver cups. As it is, the present condition of class rowing is disheartening. The blame is upon the men who pretend an interest in class crews...
...they arrived at the dinner; and after assembling at their table they began the disturbance, in which they took the leading part. It appears that most of these men were members of a single Freshman organization, the Polo Club. It is manifestly unfair that the class should bear the blame for an exhibition of vulgarity actually occasioned by a small number of distinctly non-representative men; and in view of the publicity which has unfortunately attended the incident, it is important that the responsibility and attendant disgrace should be placed where they properly belong...
...possible that the good sense of this or of any other class can approve drunken behavior in a public place. Such conduct is almost always confined, to a small number, yet the blame falls on the class as a whole. By the carelessness of a few members, the class, and especially the officers who showed themselves incapable of exercising control, have incurred the displeasure of the University...