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...college that the financial concerns of our various athletic associations, and especially of the boat club, are not and have not been managed with sufficient economy and care. The general opinion seems to be not that the management is needlessly or wilfully extravagant, but that the want of economy arises from the careless way in which expenses are incurred and accounts kept. The manager and captain are almost omnipotent in financial arrangements, and the mass of contributors have no opportunity whatever of passing judgment on the measures taken. At the end of the year accounts are audited by a committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/20/1887 | See Source »

...system which has come into use. The trouble in the case undoubtedly lies in a lack of that kind of activity which is so requisite in matters of finance. The business of the treasurers of the boat club has become a routine which is vicious on account of its want of susceptibility to new methods. If a thorough overhauling of the manner in which the accounts are kept, and the monies expended should take place, new life and better financiering would undoubtedly follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/20/1887 | See Source »

...ORDER COMMITTEE.Seniors are notified that they must have their photographs taken immediately if they want to have them inserted in the class album...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 6/16/1887 | See Source »

...colleges would be represented, Prof. Jasper T. Goodwin of Columbia College says: "The proposed plan is a most excellent one, if it can be brought about. There are certain obstacles, however, which would have to be met and overcome. In the first place, the colleges in this country would want to compete with a representative 'varsity crew, not with a crew which pretended to represent only one of the colleges of the university. I think Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell and possibly the University of Pennsylvania, would be willing to compete in such a race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intercollegiate Oars. | 6/14/1887 | See Source »

...Bergen Point nine is in want of a pitcher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/9/1887 | See Source »