Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again the Faculty, and more frequently the President, have been astounded at this turn of affairs, and have In a turn at denouncing the alumnus to his baleful influence. "It is the inmates who make all the trouble; They are to blame for such standards in the American college. Thus the professor and the college President declaim, the which standing cap in hand in various appeal to the alumni for endowment Such hypocrisy is treated by the as it deserves...
...business suffers from too much government, it is itself to blame. It has not developed self-government as it can and should. In old efforts to secure special privileges and what it conceived to be more effective security, it has helped to concentrate power in the Federal Government. I oppose that because I oppose undue concentration and usurpation of power wherever manifest, and because I think Washington cannot frame economic laws that are sure to be sound or self-operating or that can fit the diversified conditions of this diversified country...
...when he found Illinois humming with talk about that week's triple murder, scrapped his prepared speech and got up another one overnight called "The Eleventh Commandment." The seven judges were his to all but one man when he declaimed, among other ringing sentences: "Do you blame our youth for turning to a criminal career when, in those formative years before character is made or habits fixed, they see handed down to them, from a modern Mt. Sinai of sentimentality, a new and Eleventh Commandment which says, 'Thou shalt get by with...
...reason to understand these reports as other than same and satisfying commentaries on the activities of the University. For none can find any gross departure from the level of understanding and appreciative critical of existing conditions, criticism in which there is much of praise and little if any blame...
...What blame there is, if one wishes to attach that name to the criticisms of over emphasis on indifference, centers on the laisser faire policy of certain undergraduates and alumni toward men now enlisted in the preparatory schools. There is evidently a feeling that more effort on the part of the Associated Clubs might help Harvard to obtain a more representative group of students...