Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second time in as many weeks, there has been an oversubscription for tickets to a game in the Harvard Stadium. There were 16,675 applications for 60,868 tickets to the Dartmouth game; and the capacity of the Stadium is only 57,335, leaving a surplus demand of 3,623. There were 8,950 graduate applications for a total of 24,392 tickets: Dartmouth received 23,000 tickets; 3,855 undergraduates applied for 7,927 of the valuable pasteboards; and 207 members of squads asked for 1,480 tickets. The remainder of the applications were filed by members...
...come into production it has proved steadily harder to keep the price of coffee up. Pressure by the potent planters on the Brazilian Government forced the adoption of most dubious expedients by the state. These have included the buying and storing in State warehouses of Brazil's coffee surplus for a number of years, until today the Government of President Washington Luis is saddled with a stupendous hoard of coffee supposed to exceed 13 million bags -as much as an average year's crop...
...advantages of using the H. A. A. surplus in completing the new Gymnasium were set forth in the CRIMSON last Spring to an extent which makes further review unnecessary. The delay in finally employing these funds in accordance with these ideas may probably be explained by the hope of the Corporation for further subscriptions from Alumni. The fact that there is a pressing need for funds in many departments which are not self-supporting can only increase the satisfaction over the present decision to make this perfectly legitimate use of the Associations surplus funds...
Appropriated by Congress 3,971,000,000 Surplus...
...hesitation of the Corporation and its previous decision denying the use of the surplus in this emergency, may well have been in the hope that some further benefactor might complete the picture. Thus far, such an event has not come to pass...