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...energy and skill of the treasurer. He closes his accounts with a balance (cash on hand and bills receivable) of $1117.22. Against this are to be set outs adding bills to the amount of $1275.36, leaving an excess of liabilities over assets of only 158.14, a creditable showing in view of the difficulties against which the treasurer contended. The total expenses of the year amounted to $10,076.17. But this large amount must be reduced by the cost of the new launch, $3,250, a special item of expense which was met mainly by subscriptions from graduates collected...
...secondly, that the debts which have been increased are not due to special extravagance, but to decreased income. The committee, however, are convinced from a careful examination of the accounts that in many instances expenses might have been reduced, and believe that this was an imperative duty in view of the certainty of decreased income that faced some of the associations. They deprecate the growing usage referred to in their report of December 4, 1888, by which members of teams at training tables are supported from the general funds of the associations. They believe that the treasurers should furnish...
...last speaker, Mr. Bailey, L. S., said that his colleague had spoken from a democratic point of view, but he would speak from a Republican stand point. He stated that the men who are now seeking pensions were the worthless men during battle. He concluded by saying that such a position in the pension department should be filled by a man who is well up in finance; therefore it is well for Tanner to resign...
...opportunities and obligations which you now find yours are strange. You have never enjoyed the freedom or the advantages which are now thrust upon you, and it is more than possible that you will abuse them both. With all your forced maturity and self reliance your point of view will be radically changed as you advance, and you will often wonder in your senior year at your freshman self-assertion and wisdom. It is not our purpose to discourage you-far from that-on the contrary we extend to you our warmest greetings as Harvard...
HARVARD GRADUATE WANTED.- A young man who has a fancy to learn the newspaper business, who has a faculty for good writing, who is willing to work with a view to promotion, may hear of a situation in a well established journal, in which he will be rated according to his merits and where he will find congenial and not ardious work, if he addresses Post Office box 229, Boston. One who has been brought up in Boston preferred...