Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thousand and five per ct. profit on transactions. But it turns out that they have a membership of only 790, with proportionately less transactions, and have retained but three and a half per cent. on the transactions. This, continued through the year, would leave the society with a deficit of about $1500. The whole machinery is at last in admirable working order, but it could just as well do three times the work it now does-and would need to do one-third more work in order to pay expenses without assessments...
...agree with the directors that it is much better to close up the affairs of the society now, and pay all debts, than it would be to drag through the year and end up with a deficit, and an assessment that could never be collected. Such a failure as that would kill co-operation at Harvard. Such a one as they propose is merely the end of a partially successful experiment, and will without doubt lead to another in the future...
...college weekly from away out in the far-off West, recently, in the exuberance of its enterprise, published a volume of "College Verses" selected from its own collumns and largely also from those of esteemed contemporaries. Result: a deficit of $130 in the editorial treasury. A sad but timely warning (pace the Advocate and its collection of tearful tributes to the muses) to all who may feel inclined to go and do likewise...
...each others style of play. It is expected that one of these matches will be played here in Cambridge with our twelve. In case of the receipts in England being less than is expected, and not enough to cover expenses, several gentlemen have kindly made themselves responsible for any deficit...
...departments, a house of aid for young men unable to pay the full expense of rooms and board in the city, a similar house of aid for young women, houses for professors, a new building for the school of law, additional income to cover the existing annual deficit, a small endowment for three or four fellowships, means to advance the salaries of several of the younger professors and instructors to the point of a more reasonable support, means to restore to several of the older officers the salaries assigned them before the severe retrenchments of ten years ago; and, finally...