Word: blame
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...just such over-zealous patriots as Professor Meyer who are responsible for most of whatever anti-German sentiment exists in the United States today. If Harvard should lose its "fairness and good will" toward Germany, it will be such as Professor Meyer who are to blame. No University likes to be taken sharply to task for what, if it is a fault at all, is a microscopic one; or to have its right of free speech criticized by one whose ideals of free speech are as Teutonic as Professor Meyer...
...reading the article in the CRIMSON on "Illiterate Collegians" you ask "Who is to blame?" Allow me to write and even if I am a poor ignorant woman that left school in the sixth grade of the "Grammar School" to earn my own living so please pardon my ignorance. Before my son went to Harvard I have heard several times of young men that did not make good, that in some cases Harvard turns out "educated fools." Well, I worked hard for twenty years to send my son to Harvard feeling that where I had nothing in the line...
...School. Undergraduates are equally or probably more, deficient. Instructors often deplore the lack of good English in theses and reports, and the majority of class-room papers are full of solecisms and had spelling. The English standards of most courses are lower than they should be. Who is to blame...
...hard to lay the blame for the Unfon's shortcomings, financial or otherwise, at any man's door. The officers have done their best to keep interest up, and expenses down, and the Union has been by no means a failure as a meeting place for large numbers of students. If it has lacked patronage and morale, the officers are not to be blamed. But it is obvious that there is something extremely peccant in the state of the Union...
...Alumni Employment Office is performing a service for Harvard and Harvard men of which too few people are aware. "No function of the Alumni Association" says the Alumni Bulletin, "is more important or more deserving of future development. Harvard shares the blame for the failings of her graduates,-their successes redound to her credit...