Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trials. Freshmen especially are given their first opportunity to try out for one of the major debates. Three minute speeches should be prepared on either side of the question "Resolved: That this house approves the recommendations of President Coolidge in regard to naval construction as contained in his budget message of December...
Three hundred pure white swans, fat, sluggard, stupid, sacred to the Hindu God Brahma, have been carried immemorially as a heavy and increasing charge on the budget of Jammu & Kashmir, famed Indian dual realm...
...announced that to honor 300 of his "favorite" courtiers he would present to each a sacred swan. By this means the Hindu clergy, who had absolutely refused to let the swans be done away with, were disarmed. The swan battalion and its 1,043 retainers were clipped from the budget. But in the princely houses to which the swans were sent there was wailing...
...last three years, the drive in Harvard University has been a notable failure. This has undoubtedly been due at least in part to faulty organization, to the inefficient manner of conducting drives before the adoption of a Student Council Budget. The question is pertinent, however, whether, whether this lack of support does not spring in some measure from a lack of confidence both in the aims and in the achievements of the Student Friendship fund. The collection of the Budget this year has contributed notably to the ultimate success of the new plan, but in its expenditure there...