Word: debts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...reasons may, however, be urged for their collection. One is the Stadium debt and the cost of permanent improvements not included in the annual appropriation of about $6,500. The other is the competition for managerships...
...expenses are still less likely to diminish, indeed they tend to grow in a manner that is almost alarming. Not only have all our savings of past seasons been used up in the construction of the Stadium, but it will be some years before we are free from debt on this account, yet, even as it is, we have been obliged to postpone for an indefinite period the building of the covered colonnade which was part of the original plan and which would add greatly to the appearance of the structure...
Further improvements on the Stadium will be made slowly, as the policy of the Athletic Association is to refrain from increasing the debt already incurred on the structure...
...policy of the Athletic Committee of economising in order to reduce the debt on the Stadium and gradually to reclaim the whole of Soldiers Field is an admirable one, but if the ground available for sport is to be increased at the cost of extinguishing many of the teams that would play on that ground, doesn't it seem that it might be better to go a little slower on the improvements, and let the growth of diversified athletic interests keep pace with the growth of available playing grounds? Nearly everyone feels that now-a-days there...
...past few years the Athletic Association has had an annual surplus of about $25,000. If this surplus continues, as it may reasonably be expected to, the Stadium debt can be paid in three years; after that, Soldiers Field can be very rapidly improved from the surplus of the next few years. The time is not many years off when the Association will again have money to invest if the surplus continues to accrue. Some contingency like the sudden decline of football might take away the athletic profits. But football seems in no immediate danger of collapse. If it should...