Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Labor leaders like J. H. Thomas, M. P., and Rennie Smith, M. P., who visited Harvard last fall, lay the blame, however, on maladministration by the operators. In his speech here Mr. Smith said, "The great problem in the mining industry is that there are so many small, privately owned companies with conflicting interests. They are badly managed and their methods are wasteful. The remedy is the reorganization of the entire industry, establishing a national system not handicapped by the petty interests of small owners...
...somewhat baffling to find the American Association of University Professors accusing the game of football as a disturbing element in itself to a proper sense of perspective. We blame public over-emphasis for any such detrimental effect; but the pedagogic critics would cut the game into such minute particles that no good would be derived whatsoever from participation...
...Gatti-Casazza, the general manager, frequently protests against sending the entire company to Atlanta. From his standpoint, you can't blame him, for his job is to run the company, and if possible make financial ends meet. The Atlanta trip each year is a losing venture financially, and it is a huge undertaking, but I always tell him that as long as I live he'll have to include the Atlanta season in his plans. Why? Well, I fell in love with Atlanta twelve years ago, and it is a love to which I have been faithful...
...should qualify, for they have had exceptional opportunities. In addition, many college men have some money. Though it is not absolutely necessary to have outside means when you go into politics, it is not only convenient but it helps a man to think and act straight. We all rightly blame the public official who thinks simply in terms of popularity and wants, like the Vicar of Bray, to hold office at all costs. If, however, a man's livelihood and that of his children depends on holding office, it makes it very hard for him to decide to go against...
...particularly to blame. This marginal educator has merely taken advantage of an opportunity. The crowds who give him this opportunity by jamming into the colleges should perhaps, only be commended for their seal. People valuing educators who desire primarily to educate will merely have to blind themselves to the shoddy varieties of education that the situation makes necessary until either the crowd ebbs or the number of educative educators miraculously increases...