Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University baseball team will be up against serious opposition this afternoon when it meets the Colgate nine at Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock. The visitors have an exceptional pitcher in Kinney and a strong substitute in Blame. The former held the hard-hitting Springfield nine scoreless until the final inning when the opponents three winning runs came in; while the latter pitched the Maroon to an 8-2 victory over West Point. Syracuse has also fallen to the strong Colgate nine by the overwhelming score...
...this lack of merit in our modern literature it is not alone the writers who are to blame. The public must share fully half, and perhaps a greater part, of the burden. For so long as the makers of machinery, the builders of bridges, or the patrons of the subways are satisfied with slipshod work, "Thrillers", and the sort of books that are cluttering the presses today, so long will that class of writing crowd all the rest out of the market. There must be well-grounded appreciation, and some effort to meet the author half-way, before anything lasting...
...will fall not because its institutions are unworthy to survive, but because it could not call on the continuous unrecorded services of its citizens. After all, if men of education who owe much to their country are unwilling to take a serious interest in its affairs, can we honestly blame men who are not familiar with these institutions and who owe very little to them for not taking an interest in them and making sacrifices for them...
...agitation caused by the extravagant, immoral ways of the younger generation. Educators, reformers, and social service workers join battle on both sides. One day it is the automobile, the next it is lack of religion, and recently the opinion has been voiced that the girl "vamp" is to blame. While every so often the country is assured that its youth is at heart wholesome, and needs only to be directed gently into the straight and narrow path...
...would permit the coaches to be on the field, in an advantageous position, so as to direct the play of their respective teams. "I am strongly for it," he said, "because it would tell just how much the coaches knew. No longer would they be able to put the blame on the quarterbacks when things went wrong...