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Yesterday there appeared in the CRIMSON a statement of the plan proposed by the majority of the Board of Directors of the Co-operative Society for its incorporation, together with reasons which, it is said, make the change advantageous. The step is an important one for the Cooperative Society and deserves to be carefully considered by the members, with whom rests the final decision, before it is taken. I wish to set forth reasons to show that the proposed change is undesirable...
Even if incorporation were necessary, however, a plan could be devised containing the co-operative element, the Directors being chosen as at present, by the members. Such a plan was offered the Board by the undersigned, but was rejected...
...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 of co-operation in business. A revolution, however, such as the advocates of the new plan appear to be apprehensive of, has never occurred and could not occur under our present system because few of the members of the Board of Directors...
...majority report will. Even if this is true all the members of the Society as well as the few who attended the last annual meeting should examine thoroughly the proposed plan and see what it means before depositing a vote in favor of it. It means a Co-operative Society which has been a marked success is to be given up. Though the students at the University stay here but a little while and cannot take the assets of the Co-operative Society with them when they go, yet we ought to have regard for the interests of our successors...
...Union Library has just received as a gift from the L. C. Page Publishing Co., the "Historical Memories of John Heneage Jesse" in thirty volumes...