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...University, College and Library account, these three departments being really dependent on the College proper. Moreover there had been a deficit of $6,432.88 in the same account for the year 1891-92. The other departments gave no occasion for special anxiety; but it was obviously necessary to curtail expenses in the departments dependent on the College. Salaries could not be reduced either in number or amount; for all engagements with teachers annually appointed had been made in the preceding spring or early summer. Indeed, the total of salaries in the University, College and Library account was larger...
...Manhattan Athletic Club of New York is considering the advisability of dropping athletics entirely for a year in order to curtail expenses. At present the expenses for training and equipping men for track athletics, baseball, football, and rowing averages about $25,000 a year...
...stores about the college (a few only, however.) have made a regular business of speculating in Class Day tickets. They obtain the tickets in divers ways, and offer them publicly for sale. In this way numbers of thoroughly objectionable people get into the yard, and it was mainly to curtail one of the sources of supply of these clerks that the word "tradesmen" was used...
...express our meaning, but we thought it would be generally understood. The committee is acting solely with the desire to make Class Day as pleasant as possible, and to that end we ask that tickets be given to seniors' friends, and to them only. We do not wish to curtail any one's rights to give tickets to his friends, for that is what the ticketsare for. On the contrary we wish to make the enjoyment of the use of those tickets as great as possible...
...students have responded in a manly spirit. But on Tuesday a severe blow was dealt to progress at Harvard. The undergraduates have been given one more privilege, and this time they have been found wanting. Hereafter the faculty we fear will remember the mistake which has been made, and curtail further advance toward student government...