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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...discussion in the columns of the CRIMSON about the plan for incorporating the Harvard Co-operative Society has been confined to that very small part of the members who take interest enough in the affairs of the Society to come to the annual meeting. The vast majority of the members have not been heard from. These men join the Society because it is a convenient place in Cambridge at which to purchase most of the supplies that students need. They want quick, intelligent service, convenience in getting what they need and the chance to buy goods at lower prices than...
...power of the members to elect officers and thus determine directly the policy of the Society, tends to defeat government by public opinion, it does not tend to secure it. The mere fact that persons can carry a change of policy by inducing a hand-full of persons to come to the annual meeting makes it unnecessary to acquaint the members at large with the proposal to inaugurate a change. Men who habitually neglect to exercise their right to vote, and yet wish to enjoy the advantages of government by public opinion and in accordance with public opinion, can secure...
Although the shifting of the University oarsmen continued yesterday, there seems at last to be a fixed University crew in sight. The crews rowed again without coaching as Dr. Hutchinson was unable to come to Cambridge in the morning, as was expected, and Mr. Higginson did not appear in the afternoon. The changes were wholly for the purpose of finally testing the prospective strokes, who appear to have been thinned out to include only Bullard, McGrew and Brownell...
...founded last year and called the Harvard Free Library, became in reality a settlement. The library of the organization still remains the chief feature, but all of the branches together have taken the nature of a regular college settlement. The funds needed for carrying on the work have come from undergraduates and alumni...
...sales in proportion. There is no magic in "incorporation" which can avoid this plain issue. The sales now amount to about $250,000 a year; and further increase of business will involve greater responsibilities, and will not reduce the student's expenses, inasmuch as the prices of regular dealers come pretty close to those of the Co-operative, and are kept down by its existence...