Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they were unfortunate, but a riot would have subjected the police to even more virulent criticism. Viewed in this light one finds less grounds for the Committee to protest against police methods at the meeting. They might well keep in mind that Harvard must assume its share of the blame for these occurrences. Only if the rumors of police brutality inside the station turn out to be true or if those arrested do not get a fair trial is there ground for justifiable criticism. To this end the Committee should devote itself...
...encouragement. "My literary success puzzled and embarrassed my old friends far more than it impressed them, and in my own family it created a kind of constraint which increased with the years. None of my relations ever spoke to me of my books, either to praise or blame-they simply ignored them." But in Europe, and in the world of letters, she was quickly appreciated. The late great Henry James, her idol, became her friend. Jamesians will enjoy the many anecdotes she tells (too lengthy for quotation) of the Master's circuitous crotchets. She met "everybody," seems to have...
...expectation of a royal Roman holiday. The gleeful reporting fraternity and cameramen cooperated to make the flasco a howling success. The University had given the National Students League permission to hold the meeting; it had not given such permission to the counter-demonstration. Therefore the University is utterly to blame for not instructing the Yard police to break up the clowning before it started. An assembly of African savages could not conceivably have misbehaved so badly as Friday's crowd of supposedly educated...
...peace time. It is not polite to charge a friendly nation with direct complicity. Secret service agents talk largely about "international spy rings," give a series of conflicting but highly colorful stories to excited reporters, arrest a number of other suspects of different nationalities and when pressed, blame everything on Soviet
...more cases of measles, and three suspected cases were reported yesterday, all of these from the Freshman class. Dr. Means announced that an investigation into the food conditions at the Union had conclusively shown that they were not to blame for the appearance of the disease within the College...