Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they are supposed to be, suffer from the same handicap of having only faulty images on which to base what they will say. The fault is, of course, not peculiar to college students; what is called public opinion is built on a foundation as shaky. Neither should the blame lie wholly on the undergraduates; in most universities there are conditions which keep from the student intimate knowledge of events. But where opinion can be based only on impressions it will never have more than a transitory value...
...wonder that the editors of the Lampy and The Crimson are voicing protest. Fraternities can exist in America because they have freedom of selection--they can choose the people they want to live with as a more or less unified group and they have no one to blame but themselves if the group is not congenial. Under the Harvard "House Plan", if a group didn't turn out to be congenial (and most of them wouldn't) only the donors could be blamed and it would be "just too bad that the boys can't get along together...
...family and he is afforded ample time and allowance to play and practice. He arrived at the Brooklyn tournament fresh from four months of serious tennis training in California. "The only thing," said an oldtime linesman watching the Van Ryn-Tilden match, "that can stop that lad is some blame girl. I hope he's a constitutional bachelor...
...Individualistic Harvard"; the phrase is a happy one. Are we to praise undergraduates for individuality in one breath and blame them for it in the next? If there is a college where individuality is still fostered in this machine-sewn, mass-quantity-production, stamping-mill, best-possible-of-all-universes, the United States, then why complain when its undergraduates do express themselves, even if maladroitly? Are these youngsters comically and unwittingly on the wrong side of the fence; is the "House Plan" they criticize designed expressly to promote the very individualism which makes possible their objection? Very probably. But there...
...before this can be attained there must be a period of hard work. . . . We must clean up and reorganize the government, which may take a long time, but I thoroughly believe in our ultimate success. . . If I fail it will be I, and I personally, who am to blame, but with my people behind me I shall not fail...