Word: debts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Last year the Joint Committee for the Investigation of Athletic Sports recommended to the Athletic Committee that the debt on the Stadium should be paid off as rapidly as possible, and when paid, that gate receipts should be cut down sufficiently to leave just enough surplus to improve gradually the grounds and buildings. The Committee was there fore confronted by a recommendation that made virtually impossible any great widening of the athletic scope for some years to come...
...realize, and the Committee as well, that athletics for the greatest number are more important than a prompt payment of the Stadium debt. Investigations are being made of the expenses involved in reclaiming the rest of the Field, and, in view of the present attitude of the Harvard authorities on athletic questions, permission should easily be obtained to disregard a recommendation that operates against intracollegiate athletics...
...same may be applied to all the sports. They will draw a larger income and be more nearly self-supporting than they are at present. The total surplus will not be materially reduced. Even if is decreased somewhat,--which we doubt,--it will mean simply that the Stadium debt will have to run a little longer. On the other hand one of the chief commercializing tendencies will be gone, and we will be well rid of the nuisance of the collector, who is trying to prove, by a method unsatisfactory to all, his fitness for an important position...
...members of a voluntary co-operative association striking" against themselves would appear ludicrous to us, if we did not fear that it might breed among the misinformed results utterly ruinous to the purposes of the Association. What is needed is not the threat of repudiation of a bona fide debt by withdrawal, but rather an earnest attempt to insure a larger membership in order that the obligations of the Association may be more widely apportioned and the price of board for each individual be reduced to a more normal level than at present obtains...
...brief address, stated the aim of the meeting, and introduced Owen Wister '82 as one who in Undergraduate days was himself a scholar, who won his degree "summa cum laude," with honors in English, philosophy, and music; but dearer by reason of his books, for which all owe a debt of gratitude...