As  the  number  of  undergraduates  during  this  period
averaged  more  than  500,  and  as  the  tax  is  $8,  it  would
seem  that  some  fifty  or  more  made  no  payments  ;  and
no  doubt  these  were  the  same  individuals  whose  entire
dues  to  the  college  treasurer  were  by  authority  remitted.
Of  this  large  sum  of  money,  $2061.09  was  expended


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upon  the  libraries.  The  salary  of  each  of  the  two
librarians  is  $225,  and  of  each  of  the  four  assistants
$75  ;  but  a  part  of  the  same  was  still  unpaid  when  the
report  was  made  out,  so  that  the  salary  item  amounted
to  but  $735.  Of  the  remaining  $1326.09,  a  great  pro
portion  was  undoubtedly  spent  for  books,  though  exactly
how  much  is  not  stated.  Next  in  cost  to  the  libraries,
was  the  reading-room,  upon  which  (no  items  given)
$967.80  was  expended.  Third  may  be  noted  the  direct
expense  of  'running  the  societies,'  $680.64  ;  which  was
made  up  as  follows:  debate  prizes,  $284.75;  coal,
$106.06;  janitors'  salary,  $65  ;  fire-making  and  sweep
ing,  $62.85;  repairs,  $43. 18  ;  gas,  $42.56;  printing,
$41.25  ;  incidentals,  $28.24  j  and  bell-ringing,  $4.75.
It  is  possible  that  the  expenses  for  coal  and  gas  should
be  charged  in  part  to  the  libraries  and  reading-room  ;
though  the  report  itself  encourages  no  such  inference.
