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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Is there any need for such drastic economy in the management of our athletic finances as would cut off from the four or five minor sports together so meagre a sum as twelve or fifteen hundred dollars a year? We have, to be sure, a debt of $70,000 on the Stadium to pay off, and many improvements to make on Soldiers Field. Undoubtedly if we wish to apply strict business principles to this case, the thing to do is to adopt at once the most stringent economy and thus pay the debt and make the improvements at the earliest possible moment. But the Athletic Association was organized to further sport, not as a business enterprise. We can better afford to discharge our debt and make the improvements a little more slowly than to injure any of our sports now by a too rigid economy; and there can be no doubt that the sudden withdrawal of support from the teams in question will injure if not entirely cripple them.

For the past few years the Athletic Association has had an annual surplus of about $25,000. If this surplus continues, as it may reasonably be expected to, the Stadium debt can be paid in three years; after that, Soldiers Field can be very rapidly improved from the surplus of the next few years. The time is not many years off when the Association will again have money to invest if the surplus continues to accrue. Some contingency like the sudden decline of football might take away the athletic profits. But football seems in no immediate danger of collapse. If it should, then would be the time to take up subscriptions. 1905.