Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spirit of the members has more than atoned this. The high average of daily attendance, which was computed in January, witnesses, the value of the Union as a social centre for undergraduates. The treasurer's report shows a net loss of $3,990.46 as compared with last year's deficit of $6,614.62. This has been due to the introduction of many economics in the management. The library report shows that 167 volumes were added during the past term of office...
...deficit this year is nearly $4,000. This is not as large as some past deficits, but it is altogether too large if the Union is to continue to operate on a business basis. Its endowment is sure to become exhausted before many such lean years elapse, and then it will have to shut up shop, or undertake the difficult and unpleasant task of raising a new endowment...
...without an elephantine "frattiness," but it does need friendliness. It does need to avoid that lingering air of decay, and to cultivate the well-ordered, smooth efficiency of the city club. It does need to be homelike. If the institution is ever to escape the spectre of an annual deficit, is ever to attain hearty undergraduate support, its general atmosphere must change...
...chief reason for the increase is to make up for the deficit in the "University, College, and Library Combined Account," a sum approximately $20,000 last year and $50,000 this year. A permanent deficit is impossible. It is also impossible to raise a sufficient sum to do away with the deficit and allow the proper growth of instruction; the increase in tuition fees is therefore the only feasible way to raise the needed...
...financial statement of the Cornell athletic association shows a deficit for the year of $3,000. The reason for this lies in the fact that Cornell, although ranking highly in athletics, can never count on drawing the large crowds that congregate at the athletic events in other cities, because Ithaca is so isolated. However, many improvements to the property of the Association have contributed toward causing this deficit, the largest single expense being that for a new baseball cage. Football showed a gain of only $10,000, and crew and track were maintained at a big loss. Undergraduate support, represented...