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...more than $300,000, and with net earnings of nearly $32,000 on half the year's business, there seems to be no danger of a shrunken dividend in the near future. Even better still, these figures demonstrate the soundness of the co-operative principle and prove that the profit-sharing plan can more than hold its own with any other plan of retail business when given a fair opportunity...
...freshmen. A remission of at least two thirds and possibly the whole of their board bills is assured to these men. Sixty seven men earned substantial amounts selling programs at the football games. More than 6,800 programs at 50 cents apiece were sold with a profit to one man of $30 and a profit to no man of less than $5. The entire editing and distribution of the programs were in the hands of students and none of the money from the sale of them went out of the undergraduate body except that which was paid to the printer...
...receipts, however, are not profit. The erection of the 16,000 temporary seats around the top of the Bowl and around the side-lines cost the Association nearly $14,000. Another expense was the liberal pay given the 1,500 men employed to handle the crowd. There were 800 ushers, 116 ticket-takers and inspectors, 100 program sellers, 120 guides, 160 automobile and fence guards, 35 traffic men 55 messengers, 45 head ushers and guards; policemen and other groups...
Already the Allies have been compelled to acquiesce in a disturbance of power far greater than any of them can hope to accomplish to their own profit,--Japan's seizure of the Chinese finances and army. She is now in a position to demand of the eventual winner even heavier terms. And Germany can hardly afford to bargain with...
...Columbia Football team of last year, the first since 1905, made a profit of $500 in its initial season, while nearly all the other sports suffered deficits. The rifle team made $10.50. Baseball lost $792.06. Basketball lost $49.09. The crew lost $4,388. The track deficit was $1,499.94. The other teams and their deficits follow: swimming, $182.52; wrestling, $613.02; hockey, $225.86; soccer, $386.27; tennis, $444.99; fencing, $482.22; handball, $37.50. The freshman football eleven suffered a deficit of $224.80 and the other freshman teams combined lost $3.43. Total receipts for the year were $45,056.78, as against disbursements...