Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last Seventy-seven has left us. No poet in melodious lay has sung, no orator in rounded periods has eulogized, her proud achievements. Her departure has been signalized by few of those time-honored festivities which gladden the heart and weld in indissoluble bonds youthful friendships. We cannot blame her disunion; it was but the revolting of a noble soul against the contemptible electoral machinery which has latterly crept stealthily even into college politics. We grieve at her misfortune, but we rejoice at her nobleness. It is with feelings of the deepest sadness that we bid farewell to this class...
...goodies are not wholly to blame for the wretched way in which they do their work. What kind of attention can we expect a woman will give to sweeping and dusting, who is paid only forty cents a week for the care of each room under her charge? The trouble lies in the parsimony of the financial managers, who prefer to employ the untidy, clumsy, unintelligent Irish at the rate of fourteen or eighteen dollars per month (in proportion to the number of rooms cleaned), than to secure, at slightly higher rates, neat, careful, and efficient workwomen...
...benches was obstructed for some time, and general discomfort resulted to all who had tickets. We do not believe that the trouble was wholly due to the police, who have hitherto done their part in a satisfactory manner; but the officers of the Foot-Ball Club are rather to blame for not having given the police proper and explicit orders, and for not having seen to it themselves that their orders were properly executed...
...those studies; but to read anything in either language besides what is read in class, is an idea that never enters his mind. For him, the finest library has no more attractions than his own collection of well-thumbed text-books. He works hard and conscientiously, we cannot blame him for the smallness of his brain, but only wonder why he came to Harvard...
...them. So, if lower classmen are left to do the work, and in doing it, attack subjects which are as much too deep for them as logic is for women, and of which they are as ignorant as a pig is of politeness, there is nobody to blame but those who could and should do better...