Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Zoological Museum, are specially interesting. The treasurer's report occupies a fifth of the pamphlet. The income for the departments dependent upon the college proper was $268,260.76; expenses, $266,307,33. The Divinity School also has a surplus, $271. - 17; but the Law School has a deficit of $412.86. The Medical School has a surplus of $2,039.10; and the Dental School one of $507.32. A lack of space prevents the addition here of other figures quite as interesting...
...report of the treasurer of the 'Varsity Boat Club shows an extraordinary deficit in the subscriptions from the freshmen. It has been an unwritten custom amounting almost to a law, that the members of the freshman class shall contribute, as a class, more than their share toward the support of the various university teams. This custom has arisen from a variety of reasons. The reason which at once accurs to all is, that the freshmen are not as yet members of any society, and are therefore saved all society expenses. It is answered that they have their own teams...
...Yale College for the past year shows that the expenses of the college greatly exceeded the income. While one or two departments of the college succeeded in registering a slight surplus over their expenses, the academical department ran greatly in arrears. Various reasons have been assigned for the deficit, but the cause is yet somewhat in doubt. Some remarks have been made connecting the matter with the recent resignation of President Porter. But this explanation can be hardly satisfactory And yet the college, if we may judge from the unprecedented size of the present freshman class, has before...
...treasurer, Mr. Amory, then read his report of the management of the crew for the past year, which shows a very gratifyingly small deficit. It was as follows...
...sacrilegious son of Belial, who suffered from bronchitis, having exhausted his finances, in order to make good the deficit, resolved to ally himself to a comely, lenient and docile young lady of the Malay or Caucasian race. He accordingly purchased a calliope and a coral necklace of a chameleon hue, and securing a suite of rooms at a principal hotel, he engaged the head waiter as his conjutor. He then dispatched a letter of the most unexceptional caligraphy extant, inviting her to a matinee. She revolted at the idea, refused to consider herself sacrificable to his desires, and sent...