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...support of the proposition to do away with the Co-operative Society there have been offered only two main reasons. They...
...purposes in a most satisfactory manner. Something more, therefore, than a vague charge of "looseness of organization" is necessary before the institution is forever laid aside. It is easy to make indefinite and unsubstantiated charges, but we must not overlook the fact that the Society has as a "co-operative" society accumulated a large capital, built up a strong credit, and has on the whole proved satisfactory to the students. If it is necessary to incorporate, incorporation should be effected in such a manner as to leave the institution still in the control of the members. They should...
Those Directors who are supporting their proposition to abolish the Co-operative Society state that it has been necessary for the officers of the Society to sign "some leases," thereby making themselves responsible for the payment on such leases; and they argue that the Society should not impose these financial liabilities upon them. It is therefore necessary to inform them that no such liability is imposed, that it is not the business of the officers to sign leases, and that as a matter of fact there are no "leases" upon which the name of an officer is to be found...
...issue in the Co-operative matter seems to come down to this: On the one hand there is a theory of what co-operation ought to be. This theory has been proved mistaken and impracticable by actual trial,--for, as has been said in previous communications, the attendance at the annual meetings has varied from five to thirty out of the 2000 members, the only undergraduates usually being the CRIMSON reporter or some other Freshman who wishes to take in every side of College life. On the other hand there is the possibility of having an institution which shall furnish...
...average member, if he gets his membership fee and perhaps a little more returned to him at the end of the year, cares not a particle for the "Co-operative Principles" but he is unwilling that nay sentimental consideration for the Co-operative movement should risk the great University branch of service which has grown up here. The Society is from his point of view a profit sharing, trading concern; practical business reasons urge its immediate incorporation. S. CUNNINGHAM...