Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There was much blame deserved by both Ninety-seven and Ninety-eight yesterday for their disregard of the request not to use firearms at the game. For this request there were various excellent reasons, but had it seemed utterly groundless it should yet have been granted out of respect to those who made it. Repeatedly, after the chairman of the Athletic Committee had spoken, the captain and manager of the freshman nine remonstrated with the class, but wholly without avail. Ninety-seven, so far from setting the example of compliance, by their own firing very effectively spurred the freshmen...
...subsequent proceedings in the Yard, the freshmen have only themselves to blame if it comes to a question of paying penalties. It is unfortunate that in the undergraduate crowd the spirit of the better men cannot be made to prevail. There are many in Ninety-eight who would gladly have discouraged the conduct in which they were yet participants, and who can recognize the distinction between natural enthusiasm and its unpardonable extravagances. All, however, must suffer with the few; and so it must always be as long as the reckless, riotous members of the class are allowed to determine...
...wherever the blame, the effect is alike unfortunate. As in the case of athletics, the college has to teach an ideal which should be already recognized. The very fact that the college itself finds it necessary to hold stated examinations, tends to encourage new students in their conviction that beyond passing an examination they have no concern with a subject. This spirit greatly impairs the value of the college examinations. It is carried into daily work to such an extent that the real student is rarely developed before the junior or senior year, and often...
...young. The effect of this weakness is to bring boys of fourteen or fifteen to the preparatory schools with very little actual knowledge, and with no systematic training at all. In the process of hurrying such backward scholars into college, it is no wonder, and but small blame to the instructors, that the immediate preparatory training is itself insufficient and unsatisfactory. It is therefore not only the age of the Harvard freshman, but too often his poor mental equipment which must be deplored...
...position of the Yale crews recently editorially expressed, that the country at large - as represented by the daily press - seems to think that Yale undergraduates are interested in nothing but athletics - an erroneous idea for which newspaper correspondents and the ordinary speeches at alumni meetings, are largely to blame, receives many indorsements, the New York Tribune laying special emphasis on these sentiments. The steady improvement in Yale's scholastic atmosphere is much more than keeping pace with her athletic prestige - and the fact is realized here, if not elsewhere. Yale may not be successful in the next few debates...