Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boat Club. It will surprise nobody to see that the large total is in the wrong column, or to put it more clearly, that there is the usual debt that has not failed to put in its appearance on any boat club account since the memory of man. The deficit this year is $1,886.93. The treasurer's report which precedes the statement attempts an explanation of the grounds for this deficit. The expenses were chiefly augmented by the purchase of boats and the expenses attendant on the launches. It seems to us that it is just in these items...
...faculty of Amherst have made up the $200 deficit in the expenses of the Glee Club trip...
...should never be sold. It amounts to about half a million of dollars. It is an advantage as a rule for a benefactor of the college not to prescribe any definite investment for his gift, since the value of it may depreciate. Sometimes there has been a considerable deficit in the accounts of the college, but this is not to be feared in the case of an institution which is growing as rapidly as ours. In fact, Harvard is the only college in New England which has attained any great increase in size during the past ten years. Sometimes, although...
...year 1883-84 the Law School had a deficit of $412.86. In such cases the college advances the necessary funds for the temporary support of the department. This was the case with the Observatory, which did not repay the outlay made upon it at first, although this has since been made up by handsome endowments, especially the endowment made by Uriah Boyden...
...society is slightly in debt but the purchase of the new building is mainly accountable for this deficit. The steady advance in the number of students, from 55 last year to 73 this year, and the increased interest shown by outsiders in the progress of the society are very favorable indications for its future enlargement. There is more community of feeling between the students than in former years although they have come together from thirty-two different colleges and they have an annual "Commemoration Day" observed in the same manner as Class Day. They also have clubs for debate...