Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drop from the drama of these argumentative struggles between conflicting ideals to the trained enthusiasm and unstimulating presentation of the usual intercollegiate debate. If attendance statistics prove, as they do, that interest has waned in such discussions the blame must be attributed to the adoption of the formalism of the law court. Efforts to break from this usage they usually consisted of a copying of the "Oxford Union" type of discussion; and the success with which this English institution has become acclimated at Harvard is illustrated by the interest which the Debating Union meetings have aroused. But except...
...statistics show clearly the football men have grades well above the average. He pointed out that practically the entire first Freshman crew is on probation, although most of the oarsmen have not engaged in any Freshman activity up to the present time. As another illustration of the fallacy of blaming athletics for failures in college work, he said that the Yale gymnastic team, thinking it had a match with the University this year, had written asking to cancel it because all their men were on probation. "Here is an activity", said Major Moore, "that does not take the time...
...promptness with which the Class of 1927 has completed its balloting for class officers inspires one to examine the records of other classes, with the result that Freshman Class in general must be cleared of a great deal of blame which properly belongs only to Sophomores and Juniors. Each year, or at least for the past three which may be considered representative, the Freshmen have elected their officers in two days or less, while the other classes have been forced to keep the polls open for days of desultory rounding-up of negligent students in order to obtain the required...
...weekend there. The observation which has attracted so much attention was only a few lines out of the whole article, but still I thought it was desirable that it should be known. . . . If there is any carelessness in the matter it is entirely mine. I take all the blame. I did not ask his permission to use anything he said, and if I have gone beyond what I should have repeated I am extremely sorry...
While metropolitan newspapers in reporting the speech laid emphasis upon the fact that Dean Greenough of Harvard had attributed failures in college to clubs and girls, an accurate account reveals the fact that he also laid the blame at the door of tutoring schools and a notorious inability to concentrate combined with a lack of intellectual ambition. The Dean is wrong in adhering to the popular conception that the social life of college is responsible for semi-annual dropping by the wayside. He is right, however, in his last three points...