Word: payed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CRIMSON editor had been correct about the time $195.01 would have been enormous wages for an engineer. As a matter of fact we had the engineer from May 6th to 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...
...pleasanter way to find the source of the unnecessary expense in careless management than in the place where it really exists; i. e., in the negligence, carelessness, dishonesty, or whatever you may choose to call it, of the men who promise subscriptions and fail to pay them...
...crew, or anything else, in the most economical way, it must be run on a cash basis. We have been forced to resort to credit in former years by men who failed to pay their subscriptions on the day they had promised them. The governing committee earnestly desires a reduction of expenses and has pointed out the only sure way to accomplish it: i. e., to pay as we go. The duties of the committee are hard enough under any circumstances. Let men see to it that the debt does not long remain to still further hamper their efforts...
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...
However this may be, it touches the honor of every man in the University to come forward now and by subscriptions pay off the amount outstanding, so that this year's management may start with a squared account. We trust that we shall hear that the sum needed will be paid off in the course of a very few weeks. But then a fresh and healthier start must be made...