Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Figures on the total rent accumulated for the men living in the House Plan were not given out. From the listings as given in the seven pamphlets sent out to undergraduates the total rent received has been computed as amounting to $525,010, a year, (Complete figures of each house are given in a table elsewhere in the story.) The total rent that had to be raised to cover the House Plan was estimated by the University. Each house was teen assigned to raise its quota of the amount and prices were put on the various rooms. Although the figures...
...University maintains that it can not run the House Plan on less than it will receive next year from the rentals. The rents pay the upkeep of the buildings, depreciation, all furnishings, hired help, and indirectly cover the costs of the tutors rooms. The tutor must himself pay for the maid service. The libraries are in most cases gifts from individuals or the University while the dining halls are supposed to be self-supporting. Another large Item which the rent covers is a kind of insurance covering from 1-2 to 3-4 of one percent on the investment which...
...fact that extra money has been received this year to take care of scholarship men in the houses. There are approximately 220 upperclassmen who will live in the House Plan who are scholarship holders. An extra sum of money which will take care of the average increase in room rent has been received and this will be used to increase the stipends of these...
...main trouble with the room rent situation seems to be that the whole business is very hazy. Nobody exactly knows just where the half-million dollar rental is going. For upkeep to be sure, but what is all included in "upkeep"? The president, the deans, the comptroller, the bursar, the seven house masters--all these men and many more have some kind of connection with the level of the rents but all except the president seem to be confused by the problem. Students are complaining, and some of the houses face the prospect of having several empty rooms, but still...
...months insurrection-rent Cuba has been trying to decide what to do with its legacy of monkeys and apes, left it by famed "Monkey-Mistress" Rosalie Abreu (TIME, Nov. 17). She it was who, rich and eccentric, abandoned European society to found a simian kingdom-the Villa Palatino-on the outskirts of Havana. There, with 120 monkeys, she dwelt in seclusion, except for occasional jaunts to Europe, when she would engage an entire deck of a transatlantic liner for herself & I monkeys. Learned contributor to the science of anthropology, in 1929 she offered 300 acres of her estate to Director...