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From Prof. J. H. Payne, the President of the Co-operative Society of the University of Michigan, the following facts have been ascertained relative to the work to be done by that society in its endeavors to protect the students at Ann Arbor from the extortions of the local tradesmen. Professor Payne has been in Cambridge for the past few days, making a careful study of the system on which our own society is conducted. Coming as it does at such an important crisis in the affairs of the Harvard society, his testimony as to the value of Co-operation...
...large number of students of the University of Michigan spent their vacation at the New Orleans exposition. They started from Ann Arbor on the Monday before Christmas...
...schools at Columbia, at Ann Arbor and at Paris, it will be seen. is largely to give what may be called professional instruction. Johns Hopkins aims at original scientific investigation. Harvard holds to the old method of direct instruction, (with unimportant exceptions), in non-professional lines. There are no courses at Harvard, we believe, in Administrative Law, in the History of Political Theories, (slightly touched on in Phil 5 and Greek 8), or practically in Social Science. The instruction in Several other branches is also inferior in extent to that at these schools. The aim of Harvard in this matter...
...initial stage even; and as the business develops, taking in many new branches, as it will do surely, we think that the Michigan men will find it necessary to change the constitution of their society. Harvard men will be pleased to learn that the Society of Ann Arbor is reported to be doing a large business with its members. Michigan Uiversity is the first institution to join us, as it were, in our efforts to promote in common our economic interests...
...plan calls for a membership fee of $2.00, and this is expected to cover all expenses, the goods being sold at cost price, with no advance. The superintendent is to receive $500 salary. The need of such a society has been felt by the students, not only at Ann Arbor, but everywhere throughout the northwest, as in many trades the retail prices of articles needed by students are very high. Especially is this true in respect to books for which they pay more than the marked retail price in a New York catalogue, while here anyone can get them...