Word: evens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...July 6th inclusive. For a good man for a short job you must pay good wages. It is the poorest sort of economy, with a complicated Herreschoff engine, to engage a second rate engineer. As a matter of economy I should advise hiring the best man to be had, even if were necessary to pay him half as much again as we paid our engineer last spring...
...paid over a less amount than usual as every one believed that the crew did not need money. It seems that his warning was not heeded and that his estimate of a debt of $1000 had no effect upon some of our long purses in Cambridge, but even $800 more has been added to the burden, so that now we are in as bad a condition as we were two years ago. The situation is this: The '86 management left $600 debt and $1200 was added last year, not so much in increased expenditures as in a lack of receipts...
First, those who neglected to inform the students of the financial difficulties until the middle of June, too late to accomplish much good. Second, those students, and the number is not small, who subscribed and failed to pay their subscriptions. Third, the management which went ahead even to new expenses without sufficiently impressing upon the students the necessity for the funds...
...attention-for it is high time I should be putting my house in order-I feel that I am warranted in denying a petition which, under other circumstances, I should receive as a command, and in declining a duty to which, at best I could give but half of even what strength is left...
...matter, but if an inspector responsible solely and directly to the association were to be appointed this state of things could soon be remedied. The changes which have been suggested can be made only by the authority of the corporation, and their attention should be called to the matter. Even if this plan may not seem expedient yet some determined effort should be made immediately to save the digestions of those unfortunates who "feed" at Memorial...