Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...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...