Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...closing the main argument of the affirmative, N. M. Thomas said that still another standpoint from which to argue the question is that of logic,--the almost inevitable consequence of existing conditions. The old education was the result of old conditions, and the colleges have had to adapt themselves to new conditions almost against their will. Mention has already been made of the inevitable trend of education towards election. The field of valuable knowledge is so broad that no man can traverse the whole ground. Choice must be made. Who shall make it? We are compelled to answer...
Thus it is evident that after deducting the subscriptions, there is still left a considerable sum for permanent improvements...
...which I have figures) were $1,331.67. Tennis yields a surplus. If now $1,500 is added as expense for basketball and increases in the expenses of these other minor sports and this sum with the subscriptions is subtracted from last year's credit balance, there is still a surplus of over $25,000. Now does it seem justifiable to force subscriptions for the minor sports upon the students to raise a surplus of about $25,000 to $28,000, especially since that subscription will fall unevenly...
...have not followed athletics very closely since graduation. My opinions must therefore be snap but you are welcome to them. The Stadium at the time it was built seemed to me to be a premium on the commercial in athletics and still seem so. However, you have got it now and also its debt. My suggestion about the $70,000 debt is to spread it over a longer period, say about ten years, making payments of $7,000 each year...
...subscriptions? You ought to get your sports for less money. More of you will then take part and be interested. These things are possible by cutting the Stadium charge from $20,000 to$7,000 a year. A margin of football receipts to carry along the minor sports would still exist. Make the margin larger by reducing sundry expenses. In my day there was a good deal of extravagance. Expenses could easily have been cut twenty-five per cent. Is it not the same today...