Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Lastly, - placed last because we wish to dwell at length on it, - it seems to us that our College journals are to some extent to blame for the false impressions received by those who are only too anxious to enlarge upon them by a malicious push of their reportorial pens. It is very seldom, indeed, that an article appears in the Advocate or Crimson from which the public can get an erroneous impression of any phase of our college life. But when one does appear that admits of more than one rendering, and allows the reader to draw...
...cannot blame the College for this; at least we do not intend to, for we would fain fancy the appropriation as old as Class Day itself, and that while the classes have grown, and the expenses grown as well, the sum originally given has been maintained, and no increase made, merely from oversight, or perhaps it has never been asked for. Possibly the present Senior class will enjoy their Class Day the more from understanding their share in the transformation that ensues a day or two before Class Day, and understand why there are "necessary Class-Day expenses...
...studies must be required, that every man may receive some knowledge of them. Attendance at recitations must be compulsory. For, as the men would then come to be educated, they would throw all responsibility on the college, and even if they failed from abuse of voluntary recitations, would still blame, not themselves, but the college for allowing...
...cried he, and I had not the heart to blame...
Though I had no heart to blame my chum in the concrete instance, I did deliver him a lecture on the abstract scorn of poetry, that is so prevalent among us, and a few words from this it is my purpose to indite here...