Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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After all that has been said upon this subject, no one, I feel certain, will believe that the objections to this plan have been based on "sentimental" grounds, that the success of the Society up to the present time has been "in spite of its present organization" as has been asserted, or that the proposed plan is the best now practically available. If I were asked to state briefly my main ground of dissent I should say that I feel the need of a check on the powers of the stockholders which will at the same time be a means...
...plan proposed; and if the vote today is in the negative, there will be an opportunity in the immediate future to adopt a plan which will save to the members needed powers, and at the same time bring about changes which the majority of the Board of Directors probably feel the necessity of more strongly than others. But if the plan is adopted, one extreme view will prevail, those who hold it will be put in absolute control of the Society, and the members will not in the future have a chance to insist upon its modification. M. A. SULLIVAN...
...secured against being turned out of office by the vote of an insignificant minority who may not represent the permanent judgment of the Society, they cannot guarantee their employees that reasonable permanence of employment that is the right of every capable employee at present; for example, I should feel in duty bound to point out this weakness in the position of the Directors, to any employee of the Society who should ask me whether he should accept a chance to better himself by entering the employment of some one else...
...plan, the Directors will be chosen by the stockholders of the company instead of by the members as now. The stockholders, therefore, obviously should be men as familiar as possible with student needs and closely in touch with the student body that they may quickly feel any dissatisfaction which might arise from the conduct of the company by the Board of Directors. For this service, nobody has yet been suggested who would be better fitted than members of the several Faculties. And among so large a number as these Faculties comprise, five can always be found willing to assume...
...years by some agency which may fairly be considered representative of the owners in equity of the funds of the Co-operative, namely, former members? Until we know more about the whole plan, and until we know why a close corporation is the only possible method, I shall feel constrained to vote against it. ALBERT BUSHNELL...