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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supper, scheduled for December 14 in Agassiz will consist only of dessert and coffee this year, but will be free. Since the affair is the one all-college get-together aside from formal opening, the Sophomores felt that no admission should be charged. Regular dinner will be served in the dormitories before the supper and an effort will be made to invite as many commuters as possible...
...College" rules were submitted to the Council for approval by the Dean's Office a year ago--so far the Council has taken no action on them...
...come out on top financially last year, the parent University had to eat into previously built-up accounts to help balance the books of 18 departments which lost money in 1948-1949. Some of these departments had previous balances of their own with which to write off their debts, but in the other cases the University had to come to the rescue. As a result of continued resort to this expedient over the past few years, University reserves today are less than a third of what they were...
Added up, the total losses of last year's deficit departments ran over $800,000. Unfortunately, you cannot argue--even from a purely financial point of view--that one department's surplus might well be put to use cancelling out another's deficit. For instance one academic department did exceptionally well last year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which embraces the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Although this department used some of its excess income in bailing out the library and HAA, it needs most of the remaining surplus to guard against possible ups-and-downs...
...Faculty Reception has taken place in the Museum for three years, and has been attended by about 1500 people each year. No other appropriate place is available at Harvard...