Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since cost seems to be the main point in the argument of those who desire to dispose of the tradition, the figures of last year's Prom may shed light on the matter. Yesterday's editorial stated that the cost of a Prom is $3,000. Since 250 couples and 150 stages attended the dance last year if the price of tickets for couples and 150 stages attended the dance 1st year if the price of tickets for couples alone had been ten dollars instead of eight, there would have been no deficit. To attend a "Special Night...
Accepting Memorial Hall as the inevitable floor for the dance, it is interesting to note statistics of past dance committees on the cost and attendance of a Junior Dance. Three thousand dollars is practically the minimum figure. This means that to meet the expense three hundred couples at $8 a couple and 150 stags at $5 a stag must attend. Last year's dance, with probably more publicity than any previous affair, drew only two hundred and fifty couples and a hundred stags. Consequently the Committee lost money, even after a last minute attempt to reduce the expense to meet...
...total income on the Athletic Association exceeded expenses by more than $15,000, and over $700,000 was spent by the Association, excluding guarantees to visiting teams. Minor sports and the physical education department took some $100,000, and permanent improvements of grounds and buildings cost...
Along with the announcement that a tower, containing memorial tablets to those who died during the World War, would be built at the side of the new chapel instead of being incorporated into it, it was stated that the whole memorial would cost $1,300,000 instead of $1,000,000 as previously estimated. About $8000,000 has now been subscribed and $500,000 more is being sought...
...political campaign cost about 30? a vote, according to final figures last week made public by Republican and Democratic National Committees. Republicans spent $6,276,000. Democrats spent $5,342,000. As some 36,000,000 votes were cast, the combined expenditures of $11,618,000 represented slightly less than one third of a dollar for each ballot...