Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...habit, while discussing this matter, to lay the blame on the doorstep of the Freshman adviser. This is convenient, easy, and unfair. For the province of the adviser is bounded by the limitations of the word advice, by his own business, and most of all by the initiative of his charges. Further, since he is thus constricted it becomes evident that the adviser can play no great part in any plan to matriculate the Freshman more completely, and more speedily...
...seventy of labor disputes during this period [the last twelvemonth] has been far less than in any previous comparable period." Responsibility for these disputes the President split equally: "Machinery set up by the Federal Government has provided some new methods of adjustment. Both employers and employes must share the blame of not using them as fully as they should. ... It is time that we made a clean-cut effort to bring about that united action of management and labor which is one of the high purposes of the Recovery...
...have heard the Sopwith protest and Designer Charles G. Nicholson of Endeavour went home disgusted, fair-minded yachtsmen had no trouble reaching a conclusion about the historic truths of the 1934 series: Endeavour, as a boat, was definitely faster than Rainbow. Mr. Sopwith, as a skipper who took the blame for "all my wrong tactics," was decidedly less able than Harold Vanderbilt. And Rainbow's crack crew outsmarted Endeavour's amateurs at nearly every turn...
Patrolman Malone, asked to comment on the game, remarked: "Don't blame me. They give us them tags; what can we do--throw 'em away...
Perhaps now it is wise to take up a somewhat new tack in this difficult problem of supervising the Freshman. In the past the blame has been put on the adviser because it was felt that the poor Freshman should take no responsibility in this matter and should be utterly dependent on some word from above. But now indeed it appears necessary to inform the Freshman what the true purpose of his adviser is and see if that will not aid in arriving at a better understanding between adviser and advise...