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...move from old quarters to new was the greatest cause of the deficit's increase. That expense will not recur. And the new building has 21 floors of office space from which rentals are calculated to help defray the expenses of the big auditorium downstairs where, too, the increased number of seats means bigger takings at the box office. Last season 306,018 persons paid to see the curtain rise, compared to 272,006 in the old house the year before. Receipts totaled $1,230,224 as against $948,469 in 1928-29. Average price of tickets rose 53?...
Leopold hung it over the great staircase at Schönbrunn where it remained, pride of the Habsburgs, until 1922 when it went to the Austrian State Museum. In 1925 it was sold to London tycoons to defray a deficit. Of it in the U. S. alone there are 2,000 copies...
...Norwegian Treasury will also defray the expenses of Fru Anderson's return (triumphal it is hoped) to Oslo. Public sentiment there holds that too long have scalawag husbands found it comparatively easy to leave their faithful wives stranded in Norway while they revel in what one Oslo editor called last week "the easy prosperity and dissolute high life of the States...
...will confront our Class at the Twenty-fifth Reunion in 1955. The situation that has confused some members of the Class involves two separate and distinct funds. The first fund is a gift to the University from the members of our Class. The second fund is one raised to defray the expenses of our Twenty-fifth Reunion...
...second fund is to defray our own expenses at the Twenty-fifth Reunion. It must be borne in mind that this Reunion is the most important after our graduation in June. It is customary that the entire expense of this Reunion, both for the members of the Class and their families, be paid through the funds to be accumulated. If we should make any direct charge at the time of the Reunion, we would keep away many who would like to come. Some of the expenses which we will incur are the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report: the Field...