Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-04-13
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Prof. Fulton Reviews Football
Finances.

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ury of the Athletic Association
of the College has become SC
suddenly plethoric as to place it
in imminent danger of an attack
of apoplexy. We tervently wish
that this were so. Allow me to
push a pin in that idea, and wait
till the air sizzles out and I will
give you an idea of conditions as
they actually exist.
The report says that $4oo are
in he treasury with all bills paid.
Move the decimal point up one
notch to the LETT and you will
have its true condition at the
present moment.
Over and against this sum place
$22o of unpaid bills and draw
your own conclusions as to the
big surplus announced in the
local press and some state papers.
No, friends. no dividend will be
declared this year.
You ask how have you carried
on the large amount of business
you claim? We answer, simply
"tick," and our banker was the
student incidental fund, and how
we did that is simply this way:
There is in this institution a
tax imposed upon each student
for the promotion of student en-
terprises, and in charge OF the
proper authorities. This accum-
ulation is known as the Inciden-
tai Fund, and it is rightly named,
for nearly all enterprises, other
than football, are merely Incl
dents. This l will prove to you.
At the close of the football
season we stood exactly $I671 of
a deficit. Bills came in showers
upon us, and we were compelled
to draw upon this student fund
for the necessary amounts, and
we stand now, approximately,
in debt to that fund $152o. or
will wnen the last bill shall have
been paid. Now, multiply the
number of students, $50, by
three, and you will have the
amount of money paid in this
fund. Subtract the above in
debtedness and you will have the
amount left for other enterprises.
The report also says 'that it
used to be found necessary to call
upon the business men of this
place to assist with expenses, but
conditions have changed" 1t is
a mighty lucky thing for US that
we are not compelled to call upon
the business men this year, for if
assistance given were to be meas
ured by the patronage to the
business men, we would be help
less indeed, unless the merchant
who enjoyed the monopoly of
supplying athletic goods would
come to our rescue-aud prac-
tically the same conditions ex-
listed last year. From one mer-
chant was bought bill of goods
amounting to $6S3, all of which
could scarcely be called staple
dry goods. 1t was claimed that
much of the material was sup
piled at figures below the usual
price. However this may be we
do not consider the practice in
strict accord with sound business
principles to step out of ones
legitimate line to furnish goods
at a lower figure, and we would
say to the future management,
whether conducted as for the
past two years, or in the College
and by the students, as it right
fully should, that you will con-
fer a real benefaction upon any
merchant by not asking him to
provide goods at low rate and
expect him to carry you tor an
unlimited time.
But we are thankful that it is
no worse, as it certainly would
have been had the weather been
anything else than what it was
last fall. There were banner
crowds at each event, and the
delegation that went to Eugene
will perhaps not be equalled in
many a year, and yet we could
not keep even. Indeed, had it
not been for the excellence of the
great basket ball team that
''Dad" Trine turned out not
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