Word: lastly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...account began, were $4896.88. The total expenses, including bills payable, were $7214.38. The debt at the beginning of the present year was $2117.50. The actual receipts of the association in 1888-89, were $4043.53, less than in 1887-88. The reason of this is stated in the committees' last report...
...Yale games played in Cambridge in 1887-88 were $6109.56. From the two played here in 1888-89, $2621.35. The management also lowered the price of season tickets in 1888-89, to $2.50. The price was $5 the previous year. More than four times as many tickets were sold last year as in 1887 88, but whether this actually increased the receipts is uncertain. These were two special items of expense in 1888 89 which raised the gross amount. The nine received permission to play with professional teams and at Easter went to Philadelphia. The expenses of this trip were...
...committee have instituted comparisons in the above report between the accounts for last year and those for previous years in order to show, first that the expenditures in 1888-90 were not excessive as compared with those of previous years, and so, secondly, that the debts which have been increased are not due to special extravagance, but to decreased income. The committee, however, are convinced from a careful examination of the accounts that in many instances expenses might have been reduced, and believe that this was an imperative duty in view of the certainty of decreased income that faced some...
...associations, the Foot Ball association and the Base Ball association, assumed obligation last spring for a new exercise field. This field was leased for five years, and the annual charges on it amount to about $1,500. These charges are to be paid by the auditing committee from the surplus fund provided for by the Articles of Agreement. The committee have in their hands a sufficient sum, the surplus received from the Base Ball association in 1887-88, to meet the charges for the current year. In 1888-89 there was no surplus, but a debt. The situation demands rigid...
...Last night in Sanders theatre Mr. Nikesch made his first appearance here with the Boston Symphony orchestra. The selections were admirably balanced and contrasted with one another extremely well. Mrs. Corinne Lawson appeared as the soloist of the evening and at once found favor with the audience. Her voice is not phenomenal either on quality or range but very pleasing and expressive. The excellencies of the brass department were well brought out, and the complicated instrumental effects were played with faultless skill by the orchestra...