Word: upkeep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Consider the case of the man to whom hours spent in Widener seem more profitable than those passed in using the claborate equipment of the Indoor Athletic Building. Must he be taxed for the upkeep of facilities which he may never use? If a solution to the problem of support must be found, is it not far better to return to the former system of larger individual contributions by those participating in the athletic program, rather than subjecting the entire student body to the naive bureaucracy of the H. A. A. Ripley O. Jones...
...report stated that the upkeep of these sports cost the H.A.A. about $118 per person, whereas tennis, squash and swimming only cost about $18 per person. This argument was used as a reason for discontinuing the seven more expensive minor sports. But in counting the attendance and undergraduate participation in the latter sports, all those who played informally were included. Thus, every one who had signed for a squash court or tennis court was counted. It is estimated that if the seven affected minor, sports were revived about 15% of the student body would benefit...
...situation stands now the H.A.A. has to pay for the overhead, fixed costs and upkeep of all its athletic buildings and playgrounds regardless of how often they are used or of the number of people using them. Dillon Field House, Newell, Weld and the Indoor Athletic Building were all built to accommodate as many men as would ever come out for all seven of these unfinanced sports, and are costing the University almost as much as if they were actually used to full capacity. Thus if these sports were put back on the H.A.A. payrolls, the only extra expense that...
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...Rockefeller grant. In addition $19,812.92. was gathered from outside sources, and that amount was doubled by the conditional grant, making a total of nearly $90,000. The expense last year amounted to about $80,000. $59,000 went directly to research work, while the rest went for publications, upkeep of the laboratory, and administration...