Word: blame
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...varsity team said to me not long ago: "This makes me tired; men come to me after the season is over, and tell me they knew-and-were not training. Why didn't they tell me when it might have done some good? Now I get the blame when I knew nothing of the fact." I hope Harvard men will learn to discriminate between "hard work" and "lax-training;" the latter is to be feared, the former is to be desired...
...cannot blame Mr. Waterman for starting a business of his own. His services to the Society in the past have been invaluable, and but for them the Society would probably not be in existence now. His services were worth more to the public than the Society could afford to pay for, and that settled it. Nor can we blame the directors for keeping Mr. Waterman on as nominal superintendent after his work began to be put in elsewhere. If they could have replaced him they undoubtedly would have done so. But the place is a mighty hard one to fill...
...getting books, and it is a usual thing for the Boston bookstores and Sever's to have books on sale several days before the Co-operative. The dry goods department is also carelessly managed, and serious mistakes have been made in bills sent to members. Part of the blame for this inefficiency seems to fall upon the superintendent, who appears to give but little of his time to the affairs of the Society. He is engaged in business in Boston. which apparently engages most of his interest. It seems hardly possible that he can have the best interests...