Word: defraying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor" sports. The inevitable rejoinder to this supposedly visionary project is the point that commercialized football pays for all Harvard athletics. But if the College recognizes that athletics are an inherent part of the educational program, as necessary of professors and laboratories, can it shun its obligation to defray the expenses of a complete enlightened, wholesome sports program? Michael J. Scully...
Over $600 has already been collected for the fund. The interest on the whole amount $400 per annum will be used to defray operating expenses, for which the debaters have been hard-pressed this year. Most of the funds for the present season came from gifts, forcing the club to work on a shoe-string basis...
...musicians offered to play a couple of nights without any pay to defray part of the added cost for all of the Met's 600-odd employees. Last week the directors said no. Then the board informed the press that "to increase [the] deficit by meeting further demands . . . would be imprudent to the point of irresponsibility." And with that, the board of directors called off the season. Said Opera Association President Charles M. Spofford: "I guess the unions just didn't take us seriously...
...committee, of which Watson is the secretary, acted March 26 on a request for University financial aid to the Band. Borgatti has asked in a letter dated February 24 for $10,100 to defray the costs of Cornell, Army, and Princeton trips next fall. The Committee reported it "felt very strongly" that "the University cannot begin to support organizations at this time...
...financial plight of the University band will also come before the Council tonight, W. Jay Skinner '48, manager of the band, disclosed last week. Presentation of the band's problem to the Council is part of a band bid for HAA funds to defray travelling expenses...