Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the fact that the budget has had to be cut over 18 percent, the Council apparently sees no reason why it should not continue to expend a total of $140 this year for the postage and printing of balloting cards which experience has shown less than half the class respond to. Out of the 760 ballots sent out last year to members of the Class of 1933, only 372 were returned. If there were ever an appropriate moment to abolish such an outworn system, if only for economy's sake, it is the present. The Council has refused...
...clear that to retrench some 16 percent in the budget and to continue to operate the Library could only be done by a major curtailment either in personnel or in service rendered to the University...
...spite of the fact that election expenses for both Sophomore and Junior classes amounts to but$140 a year, the Council considered the matter sufficiently important, in view of its greatly reduced budget, to discuss all sides of the question...
...some of Papa Chéron's most onerous taxes and economies. For a time the Cabinet seemed to have been saved. It won a vote of confidence 348 to 243. The Chamber voted 400 to 181 to sit all night and began to vote sections of the budget, voted 65 of the 150 sections. Suddenly up popped an item of 5% reduction in the pay of civil servants. Socialist objections touched off pandemonium. "My heart is torn," cried stringy-haired Socialist Blum, "but I am unable to vote with my friends!" In an incoherent scramble all sorts...
...Shrewd President Chase realized, earlier than many another, that it was time for retrenchment. From the State Legislature the University received $12,000,000 biennially. Although President Chase added a College of Fine & Applied Arts and a School of Physical Education, it was at no extra cost to the budget. He cut many a fiscal corner and last week the University had a cosy $2,500,000 to spare, more than half of which is car-marked for Illinois' medical school buildings in Chicago...