Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...firing on two Harvard coaching launches by the Coast Guard brings us face to face with an intolerable state of affairs. Setting out to enforce one law we have virtually abrogated other laws, in glaring violation of the whole principle of law enforcement. The blame cannot be laid directly on the Volstead law. There is nothing in that act which directs reckless firing on boats, regardless of whether there is evidence of law-breaking. The Coast Guard has created this situation on its own motion. Charged with a certain duty, it has made its own rules...
Such maxims as these are not the monopoly of any local system, but are indigenous to any place where the growth of a liberal culture is fostered. There is no earthly reason why Harvard should lay the blame on Oxford...
...Pennypacker lays most of the blame for our failure to win a greater percentage of intercollegiate contests on the fact that the opportunities for student employment here have been less than those offered by Yale and Princeton. He points out the attention now being given this situation...
...John Howard Lawson has written an amazing review of the Premier of "The Moon is a Gong." It seems that Mr. Lawson objects to the use of the term "expressionism" in connection with the play. I do not blame him; in fact I should approve a temporary entombment of the word until we are able to see these plays in retrospect. Certainly it can not be called realism, that poetic articulation of the hero and that some what exotic and thoroughly ureal symbol of the moon. If the author sees fit to tumble houses in incoherent masses on his back...
...yesterday's New York Times Dr. Frankwood E. Williams, Medical Director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, is quoted as laying the blame of student collapses to college authorities. Dr. Williams emphasizes a very delicate educational problem Mal-adjustments, abnormalities, and unbending regulations, result in extreme cases, in insanity and suicide and, in more common instances, in the warping of a man's entire mental balance...