Word: co
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Since the directors of the Harvard Co-operative Society ask for discussion upon their plan of incorporation, a few words may not be out of place from one who has been almost continuously a member since the foundation of the society, was at one time a director, and has paid attention to its affairs for some years...
...president of the Co-operative Society will be at the Dane Hall store on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of this week, from 4.30 to 5.30, at the service of any members who may wish to see him with regard to the proposed plan for incorporation...
...situation of the Co-operative affair seems to be about as follows. At the annual November meeting attended by about 35, one of the Faculty directors moved that the President get $800 per year and the Secretary $10.00 per meeting. Another Faculty member moved that a plan for reorganization and incorporation be drawn. He was afterwards appointed to draw the plan which is the one now under discussion. The majority directors then printed the plan, and their argument in favor, at the expense of the Society but refused the same privilege to the minority. In their report, after pointing...
Another director in urging support of the plan says that promises have been made to employes of the Society. It's true that the waiters of Memorial and the clerks of the Co-operative sometimes act as though they were the real rulers of the University, but that's no sign that we will support directors who allow that condition to arise. Finally, he urges that a corporation should be formed because the Society often buys "for cash and on thirty days" and therefore large bills are frequently due. Perhaps he is not aware that out in the real business...
...late directorate of Memorial because it voted a $50.00 position to one of its members. The Presidents of Memorial and of Randall and the Chairman of the Athletic Committee get no salary, yet to the lay mind their work is quite as exacting as the Presidency of the Co-operative. T. H. WHITNEY...