Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approached that existing today. Besides, petitions in the various Houses the complaint has taken the form of arguments with waitresses and roll fights. It seems obvious that the present system will not be tolerated by the student body for long. If the Dining Halls expect to solve their financial deficit by such means I am afraid they shall fail...
...Harvard Dining Halls are under a moral obligation since the new flat rate was adopted last spring not to raise the board rate until June", Aldrich Durant, Business Manager, said yesterday. Thus, despite the fact that they have suffered a deficit of $130,000 in the last twelve months, the Dining Halls are in no position to increase the weekly cost of meals unless "the students themselves take up the matter through the Student Council", he explained...
When alternative plans for meeting the mounting deficit in the Dining Halls were suggested. Durant showed that none of them were as satisfactory as the present arrangement. Many students have balanced their whole budget on the assumption that the University meant what it said when it instituted the $8.50 flat rate last June...
Since Harvard rallied from a 3 to 0 deficit to win in overtime in December, Yale and Princeton have both chalked up victories, and so tonight's results would serve as a valuable yardstick if it were not for the fact that the St. Nicks is composed of young business men, which makes it a fairly transitory organization, fairly strong one night and quite weak the next...
Specific figures were unobtainable because of the constant influx of contribu-in the Wadsworth House headquarters, but Perkins estimated that $31,000 had been received by last night. This is still $9,000 short of the University quota of $40,000, with the greatest deficit among the student body...