Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...short study of the financial statement, namely, that the football expenses were greatly increased and that the large credit balance shown in 1907-1908 is missing. In fact, the credit balance last year was so small that without the money collected by subscriptions there would have been a decided deficit. The increase in the football expenses was, of course, due largely to the trip to New Haven-money well spent. However, we have always disbelieved in the practice of supporting teams by subscriptions, and it certainly seems as though the expenses should be kept within the receipts, exclusive of subscriptions...
...price of board in the Union is higher than anywhere else in Cambridge, the food is not unusually good, and yet there was a deficit for the past half-year...
...prevent this waste. It is possible that allowing men to "sign on" for the week at slightly reduced rates would increase the business sufficiently to prevent running the restaurant at a loss. However this may be, it is certain that at the present rates there should be no deficit, and it will be the duty of the new administration to find some way of putting the Union restaurant upon a commercial basis...