Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...today, not one is inherent in the legal tenders; for of the three causes of the present trouble, the first and second were due to an iniquitous act passed wholly in the interests of silver. And for the third and final cause, I have shown that we must not blame the legal tenders themselves, but the absurd connection of the two departments of the treasury; and that mandatory provision for endless reissue. If the redeemed notes had been held in the treasury we should have had an automatic contraction of a currency made redundant by causes originating outside...
...field and long grass were responsible for much of the fumbling and slipping, but nevertheless both quarterbacks were much to blame for the poor work. Beale was just as slow as ever...
...attacks were so persistent and long-continued and were so similar to charges which had been made after games in previous years, that it was no longer possible for Yale to ignore them. One of two courses was open. Yale fully believed that she was not to blame for the beginning of whatever roughness occurred in the Springfield game, and she believed that there was overwhelming evidence to this effect. It was impossible for her to have replied in newspapers and, by counter charges, to have created what would undoubtedly have been a lasting breach. But her traditional silence...
...injustice of this arrangement will be felt keenly by the first unlucky set of W's to attend lectures in the Fogg Museum. Whoever may be to blame for the error, there is no denying that the acoustic properties of the new lecture room are thoroughly wretched. In the back rows, especially when the room is full, it is often impossible to hear anything which is being said on the platform. It seems in this case particularly unfair to condemn the end of the alphabetical list to an attendance from which they can scarcely hope for much profit...
...they do, each has his part of the responsibility for maintaining the good name of Harvard. The test of the worth of a college is ultimately the men whom it sends out into the world. If they are worthy, the credit is given to their Alma Mater; and the blame for their shortcomings falls on her as well. Popular judgment of Harvard is not based on the testimony of a catalogue or of descriptive pamphlets; her fame rests, and must always rest, with the men who bear witness by their lives to the value of the training which...