Word: blames
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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With these additional powers, some of which may have already existed but have not been clearly defined, the coach would have to assume additional responsibilities. He should be made to bear the bulk of the blame for any error in the selection of the judges or for the use of a man on the team who has shown himself, in the course of training, to be unfit for the contest. Under the present system the coach is in danger of being blamed for shortcomings, on the part of the members of the team, which he cannot avoid...
...past, is put on sale today. It is unfortunate that a really use full book should this year be chiefly remarkable for the large number of absurd mistakes in the spelling of names and in the use of initials. Faulty proof-reading is no doubt partly to blame; but this makes it no less edifying to see the name of Class Day Mardhal mangled, or to learn that the 1903 Freshman ballnine won by a score of 20 to 1 from Prufret Acadmey, or to see one name rolled out into two in one of the club lists. These defects...
...prevented by lack of knowledge from appreciating the merits of the question as to the steward's salary, the Board have only themselves to blame. No one wishes to deal in a niggardly fashion with the steward, but it is to be regretted that the auditor makes no mention of any plan like that at Memorial by which the steward's remuneration is in part dependent on the lowness of the prices. Have the board of directors ever considered it? It would be interesting to know if in comparing the steward's salary with that of the Memorial steward...
...group, it is certain to be lower than when upheld by an individual, and the public, seeing a spirit of compromise in the new organization, at once loses all faith in it. Here we have the secret of the failure of many such enterprises, and it is hard to blame any one for it. Indeed, the claim is made that a practical politician, though of the future in his desires, must be of the present in his deeds. In other words, expediency is better than idealism. This is a false view to hold, however; party lines are rapidly dissolving...