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...time. The only limitations on the powers of the stockholders are: (1) that they shall make no personal profit as stockholders, and (2) that they shall divide profits each year into dividends and capital, the relative amounts of each being, however, as the Directors determine. The members cannot be sure then that, if they vote away their control, the present method of management will last for more than a day. It is not proposed to have the Directors chosen as before as was stated yesterday. The power of choosing Directors is to be taken away from the members and given...
...members. They say that the members do not take any interest in the affairs of the Society, and do not attend the annual meetings. This is only true to the following extent. When the Society is accomplishing its purposes, the members never interfere. But when the members cannot obtain what they desire at the store, and are not satisfied with the treatment they receive there, they can, under the present system, come to the meetings of the Society and make their influence felt. this phenomenon which exists in all Co-operative Societies is one of the greatest advantages...
...team will be picked by the captains of the three teams in the finals, which will play the Second nine. The captains of the three teams must hand in, at the office of the H. A. A. before tomorrow noon, a list of players not exceeding 15 men which cannot be changed during the finals. No man will be allowed to play with any one of the three teams in the finals who has not played with that team in some of the preliminary games...
...cost at Northfield for the ten days is $17, $12 of which is for board and room and $5 for program fee; the latter sum goes for the expenses of the conference. For men who cannot spend the entire time, these charges are made in proportion. Reduced railroad rates are secured, which make the total necessary expense, including round trip tickets from Boston about...
...special case. These libraries fall into three classes and the policy for each class is pointed out in detail in the report. Just as the Scientific Department has now secured admirable laboratory facilities, so the departments which use the library as their laboratory need similar equipment. Too much stress cannot be laid on the importance of such provision on an adequate scale. On equipment even more than on any increase in the supply of books, must depend during the next twenty years the continuance of the precedence of the Harvard Library among American college libraries...