Cash book, 1888 May - 1893 April

This cash book employs double-entry accounting and records receipts (revenues) on the left-hand pages and payments (expenses) on the right-hand pages. The primary categories of receipts are board and tuition, board of professors, stationery, rents, farm, endowed funds, interest, laboratory fees, incidentals, and inflows from bank borrowing. Payments were categorized as provisions, family expenses and furniture, fuel and lights, repairs and improvements, incidentals, stationery, wages, laundry, laboratory and apparatus, printing and advertising, stocking farm, lawn and garden, Special Fund, and interest.

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