Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...report of the subscriptions to the H. U. B. C., only eight dollars had been paid by his class, whereas he himself had paid ten dollars to some person whom he thought authorized to receive it. In answer to this, I should like to say that the account was made out before the publication of the catalogue, and therefore some unavoidable mistakes were made in separating the names according to classes. In looking over the list again I find that there is one Freshman who has paid ten dollars, but whose name was unfortunately placed in the wrong class...
...Seventy-nine's race with Wesleyan had to be given up on account of the sickness of a number of the Wesleyan crew...
...desire to find any paltry excuse for our lack of success; but we cannot help feeling that we have learned again the very old lesson of defeat from over-confidence. That such was the cause of our defeat must strike every one who reads an account of the game, and notices that during the first-half, with the wind blowing hard against us, the score stood one touch-down to nothing, in our favor. We cannot too highly praise the fine runs made by many of the Princeton team, as well as some very pretty ball-passing, and we should...
...were formerly $ 300 a year, and would probably be as much now. By using droplights for the tables, and side lights for the standing files, no doubt there would be a great saving; but it is understood that no alterations in the manner of lighting will be allowed on account of the inflammable contents of the hall. And even if it is possible to secure 200 additional subscribers, as it would be necessary to do to insure paying for lighting, it is certainly a question if it would not better serve the interests of the association correspondingly to increase...
...suppose it is one of those funny alphas privative that don't mean anything sometimes, is n't it? You see," complainingly, "when I'd finished Homer, I could n't read any more Greek on account of my eyes, so I don't know as much as I ought...