The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-02-02
HARVARD WILL HAVE TO
FACE ANOTHER DEFICIT
PRESIDENT ELIOT DISCUSSES
FINANCIAL SITUATION.

University Ran $4,000 short Last Year
and He Predicts Shortage sor Cur
rent Year-Ruising of Tuition rees
and the Procuring of a Large En-.
dowment the Two Obvious Resources
Former should be Held In RESERVE
Main objection to FootbalI Lies
Against ITS Moral Quality.
Cambridge. Mass, Feb. President
Charles w. Eliots annual report for
the year 10000. which was presented
to the board of overseers of Harvard
university at their meeting OF january
II. was made public to-day. The pres
ident states that thers.was deficit Of
$4,000 in 10000, and predicts an inev-
liable deficit, in spite of considerabIs
economics, in the current firscal yean
He names the two obvious resourcssa
Raising tuition fees and procuring =
larger endowment. Tha former re-
source, he believes should be held III
Ieserve. A larger endowment he de-
clares to be the pressing need Of ti1
college. The best form of endowment.
President Eliot says, Is that for salar4
les. Two million. FIVE hundred thou
sand dollars is named by tha president
as q moderate estimate for the accom-.
plishment Of the reasonable objects
now plainly in view for the college
proper
Regarding football, President Eli6t
says the main objection lies against
it's moral quality, He says:
To surprise, to ambuscade and de-
ceive the enemy and invariably to ov-
erWhelm smaller force by a greater
one. are the expected methods OF war.
But there is no justification of such
methods in a manly game of sport be-
tween friends. They are essentially url-s
generous, and no sport is wholesome iii
which ungenerous and mean acts,
which usually escape detection, contrib
ute to victory whether such acts be
occasional and incidental, or habitual.''
President Eliot acquits both the pub
lie and the average player Of any lik-
ing for these football evils.
As the present state of the negotia-
lions between Harvard university and
the Massachusetts, Institute Of Technol-
ogy does not come within the peried
under review, President Eliot throws
no light on it in this report IN His
references to what Harvard is now do
ing in applied sciences, however,, he
makes it apparent that Harvard has no
intention of abandoning that field OF
education. He draws attention to the
fact that the requirements for adnis-
sion to the Lawrence Scientific school
are higher than those of any other
technical school in the country. and
points out that the professional courses
show an increase in the number Of their
students in the current year.
The report shows that during the
year 100000 there was not single
death in the teaching staff Of $50 Yler-
sons. The designations Of Frofesa0r
A. S. Hill, John Orne Green, Thomas
Fillebrown and w. B. Hills are records
ed.
President Eliot calls attention to the
steady stream of accessions to the uni
versity libraries, the total number Of
volumes added in 10000 being $1,000.
The increasing amount of summer
work done in various departments OF
the university is noted.
The statement of Treasurer Charles
+. Adams, I'd, shows that the general
investments OF the university earned
a net income of AT per cent. during
the past year. The total amount OF
gifts, only the income OF which Is to
be expended, was $s339SS. The gifts
for immediate use amounted to S71s,-
268 and from students fees ana from
rents sS23,2S5 These figures. with ISL.
035 from sundry accounts, and the gifts
for immediate use, made the i1naorns
for the year, exclusive of gifts Of which
only the income is available, $2,4l8,11ts
DENIED By CARDINAL GIBBONS.