Word: debt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...position to judge as to the expediency of increasing the price of the tickets. If, as you say, the debt is being extinguished at the rate of $20,000 a year, it seems to me that the conditions would hardly warrant raising the price of the tickets. ELIOT SPALDING...
...natural that each Graduate Manager and each Athletic Committee should desire to have as big a surplus as possible, to make as many permanent improvements as possible, and to pay off the debt upon the stadium s soon as possible. But should they seriously inconvenience the students to satisfy this desire, when they can accomplish practically as much with a little less surplus without taxing the students severely? Why should the present classes strain to pay for these improvements and the Stadium, when the advantages of them should last generations? Is it not fairer to the present classes...
...without subscriptions and with the additional expense of the minor sports added on, a credit balance of $25,000 is possible, why should the price of H. A. A. tickets be raised? Is not that a sufficient sum to expend each year upon permanent improvements, and the debt on the Stadium? CHANNING FROTHINGHAM...
...annual report of President Briggs of Radcliffe College has just been issued. In it President Briggs emphasizes the fact that the college, though unencumbered by debt, is largely dependent for its running expenses on tuition fees, and there is, therefore, a small annual deficit. A large, unrestricted fund to be used chiefly for instruction is much needed. The report also dwells upon the need of a larger library. The present one is far too small for the growing demands of the college. Even more important than a library, however, is the need of another dormitory. The college has one dormitory...
Assuming that it is desired to raise $100,000 in the next few years to pay off the Stadium debt and to greatly increase the amount of permanent improvements, at the rate of the past five years it would take four and a quarter years with subscriptions or five and a quarter without them. At the rate of last year, it would take three years with subscriptions or three years and seven months without them. Are we willing to be annoyed every year by the subscription men of seven different teams besides class teams for the sake of reducing...