Word: directors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...whims of the majority, or by the influence of its affairs, until the original constitution is entirely forgotten. At Memorial Hall, however, the case is even worse than this, since there no constitution is to be found; for the "Scheme for carrying on the Dining Hall" was, as "A Director" has claimed, valid only for a year, and we are now left with merely a general understanding that the Hall is to be managed to the best of their ability by ten or twelve officers, who are subject in some undefined respects to the control of the Corporation...
...keeping the steward up to the mark, or to the total incapacity of a steward, who, if secure of the Corporation, may neglect the order of those who are really his employers. Neither officers nor steward report to the Association, nor are the proceedings of the Board of Directors made public, in order that we may judge how far each member of that Board deserves our confidence or our censure. And even if it is clearly shown that a director is inefficient, there is no way of impeaching him except to call an informal meeting of the Association to protest...
...DIRECTOR...
...26th of September, 1874, this triumph of American genius set out from New York Harbor, bearing the precious freight of Rufus Hatch, lobbyist, director of the company, etc., together with several other directors and a few passengers, including three ladies, whom the vile conversation of the aforesaid directors of the P. M. S. S. confined to their rooms...
...glorious carnival of free rum was immediately declared, the natural consequence of which was that all these estimable gentlemen got very drunk. Scarcely had we got to Sandy Hook before the prize director had informed the prize first officer (whom it is needless to say was also drunk), a discharged servant of Secretary Robeson, the burning and shining light of the Navy Department, that "he was a - (what you please), and did not understand his business"; which was true, but unpleasant. The other replied, in the chaste language of the forecastle, to the purport that then great director "lied under...