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  · THE KENTUCKY ALUMNUS. I5 i
 ( upon presentation of these requisitions properly signed by the Chairman. \’Vith , ‘
 { a stub-requisition—book system in use the Committee could tell from day to day I
  tl1e exact state of its finances.
  As the result of a request from the Committee, December 1907, the Board `
iz  of 'Trustees issued an order that every student in the institution should make
  a damage deposit fee. Beginning with this season of 1908-09 tl1e Committee
 il was able to get nearly every student to sign over a release of $5 out of
  this fee for athletics, should that much be remaining to his credit at the end of
  the year. In consideration of this the student was given $6 worth of coupons,
  each of which was good for admission at the gate at the rate of 25 cents per
 i coupon. In case the amount out of the damage fee should not equal five dollars
  at the close of tl1e year, the student obligated himself to pay tl1e diierence .
 Q then in cash.  
  The system worked well from the start, the only objection to it being that  
  before a game, like the one on Thanksgiving, some students would attempt to j
 ii speculate, by buying these coupons at the reduction price and selling them to the  
 _; public on the day of the game at their face value, or only at a slight reduction.  
_·;  Even one member of the student cormnittee was found guilty of this prac-  
  rice. The remarkable thing about this affair was that neither he nor his student  
 V colleagues seemed to think there was anything reprehensible in the act. From  
 i. persons with such consciences (or lack of consciences), I fear, are recruited the i
  army of public grafters we have in this country. Persons are elected to protect i  
 °‘_ the interests of an organization, or community, and proceed at once to exploit i
  them to their own private gain.
 j The nrst year that this coupon book system was put into effect with the .
  credit method of payment, the Association was given an amount, that it could I
  realize on in _Iune of that year, between $1,600 and $1,800. Of course this system `
  diminished the cash receipts at the gates, and it necessitated the borrowing of ?
 E} money to meet current expenses. This Professor \\"ilson and I were able to do i
 if from the bank, by giving our joint personal notes from time to time.
  The student officers of the Association were ]. 5. Crosthwaite, President;  
 ,g B. H. Logan, ,\Iice—President; Irl. l-. Rankin, Secretary; G. M. Hendrickson, Q
  Captain, Football; B. E. \\". Stout, Manager, Football; S. E. Caudill, Captain,  
  Baseball; E. B. Perrine, Manager, Baseball; \\'. C. Fox, Captain, Men`s Basket- §
”   hall; I. F. Chambers, Manager, Men`s Basketball; Nell \\'allis, Captain, Girls  
»  ’ Basketball; Alice Cary \I\”illiams, Manager, Girls` Basketball; C. \\ihite, Captain,  
I   Track; C. C. Garvin, Manager, Track. i  
,  it White Guyn was retained as coach for football. The team consisted of  
  l’IGnt run up against big teams before.  
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