Word: blame
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...disposed to criticise the management of the society, indeed, the students, and not the superintendent and directors, are to blame, but we do feel that the best of judgment has not always been exercised in making purchases. For instance, there is in stock about $35 worth of calendars, worth now at the nearest junk-shop about a cent and a half a pound. It speaks well for our habits of cleanliness that the superintendent felt justified in laying in such a large stock of soap, but we think that nearly $250 worth is just a little too much. But these...
While we feel what a fearful loss the death of co operation would be to Harvard, nevertheless we do not propose to defend the management of the Co-operative Society. If the machine has been enlarged beyond the demands of the students, those are to blame who enlarged it. If there are only 790 men in college who care enough about their money to go to the trouble of buying where they can buy cheapest, then the directors were quality of an error of judgment when they counted on there being more than a thousand such men. But we shall...
...apathy of the students is not alone to blame, however. The memberships and transactions are not so large as they should be, and that is the great cause of failure, but at the same time the superintendent should not have sold things too cheap. If five percent. Profit was needed, five per cent. profit ought to have been made. And it is but a poor consolation that the money which should have gone to the supporting of the society went into the pockets of members buying goods...
...nuthin' agin the gintlemin at the college and I don't mind, tillin' yer a few things. The gintlemin's always pretty good to us ; we gits poor pay and if now and thin we takes a few things, yer know, of no rale value, why who kin blame the loike o' poor us? We've got ter live somehow, yer knows...
...doing it. As, by the contract with the photographer, all the sittings must be finished before the first of March, very little time is left for the completion of this work. Moreover, this time, short as it is, will be interrupted by the midyear examinations, when we can scarcely blame anyone for not wishing to sit for his photograph. The period before the midyears. therefore, should be utilized by the seniors, as they can by so doing, save themselves and the committee much useless trouble...