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Although the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last year netted 132 thousand dollars, the Department of Athletics continued its post-war trend of losing approximately one half million per year. Compensation for this deficit came out of the Faculty's unrestricted educational funds, Dean Bundy said Monday...
Athletic fund drives have consequently been limited to campaigns among alumni of a certain sport for improvements in that sport's facilities; e.g., the effort of the Working Friends of Harvard Hockey to finance a roof for the new rink. Of the H.A.A.'s present 600 thousand dollar endowment, only one half in unrestricted money that can be used in any way the Department sees...
...costs and "the declining demand for our football games," Bundy said. He explained that 25 years ago, in the H.A.A.'s "golden age," the Association would balance its own books and frequently make large profits. In 1928-'29, for example, the College athletic budget had a surplus of 217 thousand dollars...
...living that set them apart from farmers of other lands and times. The world (including the recently visiting Russians) marvels at U.S. farm production. How American farmers do it is a mystery, even to most of their compatriots. The secret: they preserve individualism and personal enterprise while embracing a thousand forms of cooperative effort, from federal price supports down-or up-to such voluntary organizations as the F.F.A. Joe Moore's story is a part of the secret...
...They symbolized their collective devotion by combining to present her with a magnificent dressing-table containing seven drawers." Marie was 18 and notorious when Alexandra Dumas the Younger fell in love with her. She warned him off bluntly: "[I am] a woman who spits blood and spends a hundred thousand francs a year." But young Dumas insisted-and one year later tottered ruefully away, brokenhearted and loaded with debts...