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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Yale Musical Clubs will give their joint concert in Symphony Hall on Friday, November 19 at 8 o'clock. A special section will be reserved for members of the University. Tickets at $1.50 and $1.00 will be put on sale Monday, November 1, at the branch store of the Co-operative Society, at 35 Bow street, and at Symphony Hall...
...directory of students and officers of the University is now on sale at the Co-operative and other bookstores in Cambridge for twenty-five cents. A complete list of the office hours and university engagements of the officers in instruction is included in the directory...
...report shows that the Co-operative makes an average of about 20 cents on every dollar's worth of goods sold and that the average expense involved in the sale of a dollar's worth of goods, including allowances for depreciation, etc., is about 15 cents. The business is therefore conducted on a narrow margin of net profit and a dividend of 8 per cent, would not be possible were it not for the large amount of sales to nonmembers who draw no dividends on their purchases, yet whose patronage contributes to the amount of net profit available for distribution...
...Harvard Co-operative store was the first of its kind in this country, and although somewhat similar enterprises have been established at various university centres during the intervening 27 years, as for example at Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Chicago, and California, the Harvard store is much the largest and most profitable among them. In fact, its vol- ume of annual business is about as large as that of all the others put together. Some idea of the service which the Cooperative renders to the University in general may be gained form the statement in the annual report that more than...
...officers of the Co-operative Society deserve the thanks of their patrons, not only for making such an excellent financial record in a year of commercial weakness, but also for maintaining its excellence of service in many directions. Such a store, responsive to the ever-changing demands of a transitory public, has a very difficult place to fill. We believe that the Co-operative is operated with as little friction and with as much satisfaction to its customers as are possible in the circumstances...