Word: scapegoat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who are looking for a scapegoat will undoubtedly aim their fire in the general direction of the HAA for it presents an inviting target, but as far as this writer is concerned, the HAA cannot be hold responsible. Two weeks ago the Columbia authorities asked ticket manager Lunden how many tickets he wanted. They suggested Harvard would need only 8000, or the usual number given the opposing team at an early season Columbia home game...
...know the value of good books ... of Latin, and algebra . . . may be forgiven if we sometimes show just a little irritation when the 'traditional' subjects are made the scapegoat, by implication at least...
Tuesday's editorial on Rent Control is most commendable --from the point of view of the majority of the people who are renters and who, like all normal humans, want something for nothing. However I am tired of seeing the landlord used as a scapegoat. What justice is there in holding his rents down to pre-inflation levels when he must pay every laborer twice as much for the ever-needed repairs on his property? And what about coal costs--while the administration mollycoddles the miners? Isn't building material higher? Oh, yes, all landlords were given a chance...
Russia and Communism become a major danger only in our divisions and confusions. We may have to resist Communism by force of arms. That does not give us warrant to load it with our sins and treat it as a universal scapegoat...
...become such a scapegoat among the local prosportswriters that I feel called on to correct a glaring injustice done the HAA in your editorial of Wednesday, January...