Word: blamed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Again, we have no means of determining on whom our blame shall fall. Defects may be due to the negligence of officers in not keeping the steward up to the mark, or to the total incapacity of a steward, who, if secure of the Corporation, may neglect the order of those who are really his employers. Neither officers nor steward report to the Association, nor are the proceedings of the Board of Directors made public, in order that we may judge how far each member of that Board deserves our confidence or our censure. And even if it is clearly...
...that the societies differ widely in their scope, and that any student whose mind and whose manners fit him for admission to any one of them can obtain it by the exercise of a little tact. If in his Senior year he has failed to do so, he must blame himself for his position...
Under these circumstances, when there is a difference of opinion between the coach and the captain, the latter naturally wishes the decisive word, as in case of mistake the blame will fall upon him, and though ready to abide by his own mistakes, he naturally does not care to be responsible for those of another. This has been the cause of separation between the crew and the late coach. The latter insisted upon a measure which the captain believed to be wrong; he was therefore obliged to choose between rejecting the directions of the coach and retaining his own method...
...last I saw of the wreck the calf had devoured most of the old lady's pickles and peppermints, and had begun on her bonnet; and the conductor, Bill, and the fireman were asking how it happened, and laying the blame on each other. I returned North by another route...
...proposer must acknowledge, that, if considered aside from the honor of the position, such a stand taken by Harvard cannot be to her advantage. If she waits to win a race, working in the Association all this time in but a half-hearted way, then no one can blame her enemies for crying that her wish to withdraw has arisen solely from her want of success; and thus she loses all credit for her more honorable motives, which are, after all, her real ones...