Cash book, 1936 September 1 - 1938 April 5

This cash book employs double-entry accounting and records monthly receipts (revenues) on the left-hand pages and payments (expenses) on the right-hand pages. The primary categories for receipts are board and tuition, re-examination and miscellaneous fees, board of professors, stationery, rents, endowed funds, farm, laboratories, music department, and inflows from bank borrowing. Aggregated annual expenses (without detail) are provided for the following categories: salaries, pension contributions, infirmary, Haverford Union, gymnasium and athletics, library, skating pond, farm, provisions, wages, family expense and furniture, educational miscellaneous, fuel and light, water, lawn and garden, laboratories, printing and advertising, repairs and improvements, interest, taxes, insurance, incidentals, and President's Entertainment Fund. Payments in this cash book include numerous purchases of securities for endowed funds.

(Adapted from a report by G. Richard Wynn, Emeritus Vice President of Finance and Administration)