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...local celebrations. So tenaciously have Senators and Representatives fought for their Army posts that, as a group, they have succeeded in blocking practically all of the War Department's elimination proposals. Despite President Hoover's earnest effort to economize, War Department realists expected little to result. The upkeep of all Army posts is only $20,695,990 and the abandonment of 40 of them, even if Congress consented, would save only about $2,000,000, a small drop out of a billion-dollar bucket. Coast artillery posts may be chopped but the War Department has up its sleeve...
...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...
...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...
...recent years the high cost of laying down six miles of boards and the increasing upkeep necessary for the renewal of wornout planks has made the annual expense almost prohibitive. Authorities decided to macadamize the paths when they found that the funds spent on temporary walks would in ten years pay for the cost of cementing all walks...
...favored by the Bishop of Durham and a considerable body of Anglican clergymen and laymen. Essentially, however, it is the protest of the great body of British Dis-senters?Presbyterians, Methodists, Bap-tists?against the favored position of a Church to which they do not subscribe, but for whose upkeep they are taxed. If the proposal were to take effect, English Episcopalians would be obliged to support their own Church out of voluntary funds, and they would lose the prestige conferred by the presence of the Bishops (Lords Spiritual) in the House of Lords...