Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...careless way in which expenses are incurred and accounts kept. The manager and captain are almost omnipotent in financial arrangements, and the mass of contributors have no opportunity whatever of passing judgment on the measures taken. At the end of the year accounts are audited by a committee and found to be all right. If the expenses have seemed too large to any contributor or he system wrong, all he can do is to refuse to contribute the next year. Thus if the club has run into debt the only redress for those who support...
...item of $161 was paid back to a committee which thought last spring that it had enough money to pay for running the launch, but found last autumn, after the launch-running season was over, that it didn't have enough money after all. Is this "apparent" or real carelessness...
...rest, the item $80 for lifting the launch upon the cars, we only this week found was our debt, owing to a flaw in the agreement with the New London Railroad, which we supposed responsible for the debt...
...McKenzie may be found at Wadsworth House I every week-day from...
...verse contained in the paper is graceful and flowing, and in it may be found touches of individuality, though for the most part, like all college verse, it is the echo of familiar poems. The number concludes with two interesting editorials and some readable book notices...